Shenzhen-Based Huawei Technologies surpassed Ericsson Inc to become the world’s biggest wireless communications base station vendor by the end of last year, representing global recognition for Chinese telecommunications, a United States-based research firm said yesterday.
Chinese OEMs (original equipment manufacturer), including Huawei, ZTE Corp, Datang Telecom and FiberHome Networks, now have 40 percent of the global [...]
China’s third-generation networks will be able to support 150 million users by 2011, after the government granted licenses allowing carriers to offer high-speed wireless services this year, the industry regulator said.
The nation’s three phone companies may spend 100 billion yuan (US$14.6 billion) each on 3G networks, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong said [...]
As far as Intel’s Barrett is concerned, WiMAX is here to stay because of its first mover advantage in the market while LTE is still “two years away”. On the other hand, Ericsson’s Eriksson is adamant that there is an inevitability that carriers will upgrade to LTE from their existing, less advanced 3G technologies, as [...]
China last week approved long-awaited licenses for next generation (3G) mobile networks, whetting investor appetites with the promise of major new orders for equipment makers and revenue for network operators.
The new licenses will see dominant player China Mobile (0941.HK) forced to build and operate a 3G network based on a home-grown experimental technology, called TD-SCDMA.
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Ericsson has refused to scale back investments in China as it prepares for the launch of a lucrative 3G market.
Johan Bergendahl of Ericsson explained that the industry is shifting its focus from the West to Asian Pacific countries such as China and India. However, Bergendahl did admit that the impact of the worldwide economic recession [...]
Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end-users reached more than 309 million units in the third quarter of 2008, a 6 per cent increase compared to the third quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Growth dipped back into single figures, representing less than half the 16 per cent growth rate of the same period in [...]
