Building the National Digital Backbone: H3C and Freedom Telecom Co-Create an Intelligent Wi-Fi Campus Fabric

Freedom Telecom, a subsidiary of the NASDAQ-listed Freedom Holding Corp. (FRHC), is the connectivity powerhouse driving one of the region’s most ambitious digital ecosystems. With a robust portfolio of fiber, FWA, and entertainment services across 11 cities, the company is executing a strategic pivot. By leveraging an existing footprint of 4,000+ urban Wi-Fi hotspots, Freedom Telecom is evolving from a standard connectivity provider into a sophisticated business intelligence platform that serves as the digital heartbeat of "Digital Kazakhstan".

The Challenge: Scaling Connectivity in a High-Complexity Environment

Freedom Telecom’s growth trajectory demanded an infrastructure capable of balancing high-density traffic with the rigorous security and compliance mandates of the Kazakh market. The company faced three critical architectural hurdles:

High-Density Reliability: In diverse environments—from retail and manufacturing to warehouses and campuses—the network had to mitigate latency and signal degradation to maintain seamless connectivity for thousands of simultaneous users.

Security and Regulatory Integrity: The infrastructure required air-gapped isolation between guest traffic and corporate data, while simultaneously embedding a mandatory, real-time SMS authentication workflow to meet national legal standards.

Intelligence-Ready Architecture: With a target of 50,000 access points by 2030, the network needed to transcend basic transport and evolve into an intelligent fabric capable of supporting advanced analytics, behavioral scoring, and movement tracking.

The Solution: The "Freedom Guest Wi-Fi" Intelligent Fabric

To future-proof its mission-critical infrastructure, Freedom Telecom deployed "Freedom Guest Wi-Fi," an H3C-powered managed service designed to serve as a real-time business intelligence engine.

Uncompromising Performance (802.11be): Utilizing H3C’s advanced Wi-Fi 6 and 7 access points, the deployment delivers 10 Gbps throughput. Leveraging Multi-Link Operation (MLO), the system orchestrates traffic across the 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz spectrums to maintain sub-5ms latency, effectively neutralizing interference in dense environments.

Cloud-Native Visibility & Orchestration: By utilizing the H3C AD Campus cloud platform, Freedom Telecom’s engineering teams gained granular, real-time observability across their entire national footprint, enabling centralized provisioning and automated policy enforcement.

Compliance-by-Design: The solution integrates a localized, multi-language captive portal with a three-step SMS authorization module, automating regulatory compliance while enhancing the end-user experience.

Project Outcomes: Driving Business Intelligence at Scale

Market-Leading Velocity: Successfully onboarded 1,000+ enterprise clients and deployed 1,500+ active Wi-Fi 6/7 access points in record time.

Scalable Engagement: Sustained stability for 200,000+ monthly active users, validating the architectural resilience of the fabric.

Data-Driven Transformation: Successfully converted the network into an intelligence layer, providing the foundation for behavioral scoring and AI-enhanced customer insights.

Standardized Growth Roadmap: Established a high-performance, replicable deployment template, positioning Freedom Telecom to achieve its 37,000-access point goal by 2030.

Looking Ahead: Engineering the Future Together

This implementation marks the beginning of a deeper strategic alliance. Freedom Telecom and H3C are moving beyond infrastructure deployment to co-create a new era of digital capabilities. Our roadmap centers on the joint development of AI-driven and Intent-Based Networking (IBN) capabilities, as well as the strategic expansion into SD-WAN, managed security, and LAN services. By integrating H3C’s global technological innovation with Freedom Telecom’s robust digital ecosystem, we are engineering the next-generation digital infrastructure for a data-driven, innovative nation.