It is. Ludicrously cheap. Not just in capital expenditure terms but also in terms of operating costs, as they’ll run it all for you, if you want. There are lots of possible reasons ranging from business pragmatics, to work practices through to the tin foil hatted. As far fetched as any of these might seem, none are as far fetched as that they’re giving you a great deal out of pure kindess.
Take note that the ludicrously cheap prices only apply if its end-to-end Hauwei: i.e. If you plug pne piece of Hauwei kit into another.
If you add non-Hauwei kit, you not only have to buy the more expensive gear but you also have to buy a more expensive licence for the protocol on the Huawei kit.
Source: adding SMSCs, GMLCs, SMLCs, etc to HW networks.
Yes I work in this space too, and as a 3P vendor their monolothic architecture concerns me greatly. Note that this approach goes directly against the spirit of the GSM “culture” (for want of a better term) of modularity to date.
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