As part of their visit to Malta, officials from Huawei together with Malta's General Consul and Special Envoy to China have visited the Malta Communications Authority and the Malta Information Technology Agency to learn more about the various programmes and initiatives that both these entities are responsible for.

At MCA the Management Committee briefed the delegation on the competitive scenario in the communications sector in Malta and the authority's role, functions and priorities.  It was positively noted that the Digital Agenda Scoreboard, recently published by the European Commission, had once again confirmed Malta as the top performer when it comes to next generation network broadband coverage.

On Saturday they visited MITA's Tier III Data Centre in Santa Venera where they had a meeting with the Executive Chairman, Tony Sultana, as well as with MITA's CTO, Dr Godwin Caruana and Emanuel Darmanin, who heads the Strategy and Business Department.

Following a brief about MITA and a short presentation of Digital Malta, the National ICT Strategy (2014-2020), discussions ensued about the Memorandum of Understanding and how the relationship can be of benefit for ICT at a national and government level. 

The delegation was then given a tour of MITA's Control Centre and Tier III Data Centre. MITA personnel explained how government's entire ICT infrastructure in Malta as well as Maltese embassies abroad are monitored on an ongoing basis and in a proactive manner.