Collaboration underscores both companies' commitment to drive innovation for the benefit of customers.
Vodafone and Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, have opened a laboratory in Milan, Italy to drive core network innovation and to benefit customers.
The Core Network Innovation Centre (CIC) in Milan is equipped with the latest Huawei mobile and core network equipment and technologies to boost innovation in core network solutions. Huawei and Vodafone' s collaborative research will aim to give both companies a competitive edge in core network areas, such as mobile broadband, IMS (IP Multimedia Sub-system) and FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence), eventually bringing new ideas to fruition, enabling timely market launches.
The CIC represents Huawei' s primary investment in core network technologies in Europe, with the project underscoring the company' s close collaboration with the operator community.
Livio Borgogno, director of Vodafone' s global core network competence centre, and Cai Liqun, president of Huawei' s core network product line, today inaugurated the Core Network Innovation Centre in Milan.
"The CIC will ensure that Vodafone is able to maintain its position as an innovation leader within the core network, so that our customers will continue to benefit from the latest technology to improve and enhance their communications," said Livio Borgogno of Vodafone.
About Vodafone
Vodafone is the world' s leading international mobile telecommunications company, with equity interests in 31 countries and Partner Markets in more than 40 countries. As of 31 March 2009, Vodafone had approximately 303 million proportionate customers worldwide. For more information, please visit www.vodafone.com.
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