{"id":3132,"date":"2026-01-20T17:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/sunway-celcom-and-huawei-in-malaysias-first-tripartite-collaboration-to-advance-5g-and-explore-smart-solutions\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:46:07","slug":"sunway-celcom-and-huawei-in-malaysias-first-tripartite-collaboration-to-advance-5g-and-explore-smart-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/sunway-celcom-and-huawei-in-malaysias-first-tripartite-collaboration-to-advance-5g-and-explore-smart-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunway, Celcom, and Huawei in Malaysia\u2019s First Tripartite Collaboration to Advance 5G and Explore Smart Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Sunway City Kuala Lumpur, 9 July 2020 \u2013 <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sunway Berhad (Sunway), Celcom Axiata Berhad (Celcom) and Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (Huawei) today sealed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore Malaysia\u2019s first tripartite collaboration towards advancing smart township solutions encompassing Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with the fifth-generation (5G) connectivity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MoU aims to explore the potential for Celcom and Huawei to be the 5G technology enabler for Sunway Group. Sunway City Kuala Lumpur will be the \u201claunch pad\u201d of this ground-breaking partnership.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All three parties will explore the possibility to facilitate and support one another within the digital eco-system to promote technological adoption to enrich people\u2019s lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposed collaboration will see the development of smart solutions in the areas of public safety and security, telehealth, e-learning, hospitality, leisure and retail experience using the latest telecommunications technology as they become available for Sunway City Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia\u2019s model smart sustainable city, as well as other existing and upcoming developments of Sunway. The tripartite collaboration will also contribute towards achieving sustainable development for our nation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As 5G connectivity will drive optimum adoption of IR4.0 solutions for smart township, the three parties involved will potentially develop an architectural design, use cases and deploy projects based on the latest technological standard for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cellular networks for<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sunway City Kuala Lumpur.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are proud to partner with Celcom, as the leading telco with widest network coverage in the country, and Huawei, one of the global leaders in 5G applications, on this first-of-a-kind tripartite partnership to advance 5G technology for Sunway City Kuala Lumpur,\u201d said Dato\u2019 Chew Chee Kin, President of Sunway Group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe envisage Sunway City Kuala Lumpur to be Malaysia\u2019s model smart sustainable city where a host of communities live, work, play, learn in a safe, healthy and connected environment,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter more than a decade working together, we are proud to take the partnership with Sunway Group to the next level. This collaboration will be the perfect platform for Celcom to demonstrate how technology could provide a firm foundation for a holistic smart township, and further improve lives of the community,\u201d said Idham Nawawi, Chief Executive Officer of Celcom Axiata.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposed collaboration will boost our technological capacity building, and immense potential in bringing innovative products and services, while creating a \u2018win-win-win\u2019 situation to benefit the industry, rakyat and achieve the nation\u2019s digital aspirations,\u201d Idham added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celcom has been cementing its position as a digital enabler within the nation&#8217;s digital ecosystem, propelling towards becoming an integrated multi-access, multimedia services and Internet of Things solutions provider, in line with the evolving technologies and consumer behaviour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being Malaysia&#8217;s mobile operator with the widest network coverage, Celcom boasts a 93% 4G population coverage together with 83% for 4G LTE-A. Celcom continues to strive in expanding its network to empower all communities, both urban and rural throughout the nation, with seamless connectivity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since presenting Malaysia\u2019s first 5G trial in 2017, Celcom&#8217;s network is ready to transition towards 5G, paving the way to accomplish the objective of the tri-partite collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, Michael Yuan, Chief Executive Officer of Huawei Malaysia said, \u201cThe world is moving rapidly towards a fully connected and digital era, and it is important that a conglomerate like Sunway Group understands the importance of digital transformation and continues to embrace the digital shift. As a leader in ICT solutions, we are committed to our partners in providing secure, reliable, and sustainable services to help them grow in an intelligent world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sunway and its solution partners, on the other hand, will have the opportunity to be part of Celcom\u2019s Centre of Digital Excellence (\u201cCODE\u201d), in testing telecommunications technology and potentially further developing used cases essential for Sunway\u2019s envisioned smart solutions, particularly within Sunway City Kuala Lumpur.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith this collaboration, we hope to position Sunway City Kuala Lumpur as one of Asia\u2019s model smart and sustainable cities,\u201d added Dato\u2019 Chew.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunway City Kuala Lumpur, 9 July 2020 \u2013 Sunway Berhad (Sunway), Celcom Axiata Berhad (Celcom) and Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) Sdn. 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(Huawei) today sealed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore Malaysia\u2019s first tripartite collaboration towards advancing smart township solutions encompassing Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with the fifth-generation (5G) connectivity.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}