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Huawei Rated As Sole Leader In 5G Competitive Landscape Assessment

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December 23, 2021

Huawei’s 5G Core portfolio has been rated as the “leader” among all the 5G core products from the world’s mainstream telecom equipment vendors by GlobalData in its recently released report entitled 5G Mobile Core: Competitive Landscape Assessment.

GlobalData is a world-renowned data analytics and consulting company in the ICT industry. It provides expertise on market research and predictions in addition to vendor and product analysis.

In the 5G landscape assessment report, it estimates that 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G NSA, and 5G SA networks will coexist for a long time. It also suggests equipment vendors to use their 5G core network solutions to facilitate smooth network evolution towards 5G Stand Alone (SA) and utilize a converged core network architecture to address the challenges of multiple RATs coexisting, such as the complex O&M. In addition, as global core networks transition and leverage more cloud-based resources, a higher requirement is posed on network stability, and in turn on network reliability design. Moreover, VoLTE technology investment, commercial practices, and innovations on multimedia (immersive and interactive) voice services are also valued.

The report used nine criteria in total, including solution maturity, the architecture, migration, and multimedia voice services, to evaluate the competitiveness of the 5G core product portfolios from mainstream telecom equipment vendors. Huawei 5G Core, with the company’s cutting-edge technologies and extensive commercial practices, excelled in the evaluation in many dimensions, including the following:

Huawei’s 5G core solution is developed based on the cloud native and microservice architecture. Its 5G Core Rock-Solid Reliability solution adopts a N-way redundancy architecture, the innovative federated databases supporting 100 million subscribers, and 64x intelligent flow control algorithm. With all these, Huawei 5G Core can provide a 99.999% reliability and enable cross-DC redundancy for a huge number of users.

Huawei has adopted the Single Packet Core (SPC) and Single Voice Core (SVC) solutions to build a fully converged data and voice network, which can provide services for 2G/3G/4G/5G NSA/5G SA subscribers on one network. This converged network uses a simplified architecture and supports smooth evolution.

Huawei 5G Core also did well in network automation. The company has put forward the autonomous driving network solution which relies on the telco cloud native and infuses intelligence into the core network. This solution makes network deployment, operation, and maintenance more intelligent, and can help lift the network automation level to Level 4, which includes independent machine-based decision making.

This report also recognized Huawei’s significant achievements in accelerating the large-scale commercial use of 5G networks for operators with its 5G core network solution. Huawei 5G Core has helped China’s three major operators build the world’s largest 5G SA networks, providing services for over 100 million 5G SA subscribers.

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Alake Inaugurates Nigeria-US Solid Minerals Committee, Dismisses $700bn Claim, Says No Assets Sold

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October 28, 2026

The Gleamer

Joel Ajayi

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, on Tuesday inaugurated the Nigeria-United States Committee on Strategic Cooperation in the Solid Minerals Sector in Abuja, dismissing reports that Nigeria sold $700 billion worth of solid minerals to the US.

The inauguration followed the strategic cooperation framework established between Nigeria and the United States during the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York.

In a statement issued on Wednesday by the Head PRESS and Public Relations Department Mrs. Kania Maliki Andeyaba stated that, Alake in the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, signed with the US is a government-to-government platform to facilitate business-to-business engagements between American investors and Nigerian local operators, not a sale of assets.

Harping on the importance of the solid minerals sector to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s economic diversification agenda, he noted that the administration was committed to reducing dependence on a mono-product economy through the sustainable development of Nigeria’s vast mineral resources.

According to him, the Nigeria–US partnership as a strategic initiative to attract investment, promote technology transfer, strengthen local mineral processing and create employment opportunities.

“There is no sale of any Nigerian asset. There’s nothing exchanging hands,” Alake declared.

“We created a platform to facilitate mingling of US investment ventures with Nigeria’s local operators. It is in the public domain. We signed it in public and published it in four or five national newspapers.”

The Minister said reports claiming the US was coming to take over Nigeria’s minerals and security architecture were untrue at best and products of riotous imagination at worst.

Explaining the policy thrust, Alake said Africa has historically held the short end of the stick in global economic transactions, and Nigeria is determined to change that model.

“We have the resources, the critical elements the world needs to transit to clean energy. So we are creating a new paradigm — you bring your capital, expertise and technology, to match with our natural resources and create a win-win situation . The investor gains, Nigeria gains.’’he said.

Nigeria, he stressed, had operated a mono-cultural economy dependent on oil, while solid minerals were exploited informally — with ores taken “from pit to port” without value addition.

Alake said government has now made local processing mandatory, refusing to grant mineral titles to investors without a clear pathway to processing in Nigeria.

He said the policy led to the springing up of processing factories, including the largest lithium processing plant in West Africa commissioned recently in Nasarawa by the Vice President, and informed the formation of the African Minerals Strategy Group.

Alake noted that investor confidence has returned due to macro-economic reforms by President Bola Tinubu that guarantee security of tenure and repatriation of profits.

He charged the committee to discharge its assignment responsibly, saying its work is strategic to achieving the President’s $1 trillion economy target.

To this end, he told the Committee to ensure effective coordination, identify investment opportunities and translate the framework into measurable outcomes capable of positioning Nigeria as a competitive player in the global solid minerals industry.

In his welcome address, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Engr. Faruk Yusuf Yabo, said the inauguration translates growing bilateral engagements into a structured framework for practical cooperation and investment mobilization

Economic Officer at the US Embassy, Jonathan Baas, said President Donald Trump has prioritized three areas for US embassies — energy, artificial intelligence/super intelligence, and critical minerals.

Baas said Washington’s direction is to work with partners to secure critical supply chains while ensuring partners capture value.

“We just signed a contract today on looking into building AI data centres in Nigeria at the Nigerian Economic Summit. That’s the direction Washington wants us to go,” he said.

In his vote of thanks, CEO/Managing Director of Nigeria Solid Minerals Company, NSMC said that the committee

is expected to coordinate implementation, facilitate investment and monitor progress towards achieving the objectives of the Nigeria–US cooperation framework.

The inauguration reinforces the Federal Government’s commitment to repositioning the solid minerals sector as a key driver of economic diversification, industrial development and national prosperity under President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

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