Huawei CDMA Revenues Grow 30%

Written by Adam Gosling

Wednesday, 14 March 2007

Huawei bean counters have done their numbers and found that the company's CDMA revenues jumped 30 per cent in 2006. Rising on the back of a customer base that now supports 60 million mobile phone users, the Chinese networking company says it signed 16 CDMA2000 1xEV-DO commercial contracts in 2006. Key customer wins for the year included Leap Wireless in CDMA stronghold North America which set about building the world's first all IP-based EV-DO Rev. A network. Further south Latin American telco CANTV/Movilnet asked Huawei to help it deploy a CDMA2000 1X/EV-DO commercial network which enabled Movilnet, the biggest telecommunication operator in Venezuela, to launch a new value-added services. In Africa the number of subscribers of Starcomms in Nigeria grew 7 fold in the span of 36 months making the Huawei deployment one of the fastest growing in the West Africa region. "We have reaffirmed our position as the world's leading CDMA solutions provider with unrivaled growth in the global CDMA market," said Mr. Cai Liqun, president of Huawei CDMA Networks. "We expect to carry this growth momentum into 2007 across key international markets as Huawei continues to tailor solutions to meet the different needs of operators across the world." Huawei also retained its global market share leadership in CDMA WLL (Wireless Local Loop) in 2006. The company provides universal services for 68 percent of CDMA WLL users and 65 percent of CDMA 450 users throughout the world. Major CDMA operators such as Skylink in Russia, Telmex in Mexico have adopted the advanced Huawei CDMA 450/WLL solutions to achieve flexible coverage, and delivery of abundant high speed data services. Huawei's innovative "5 carriers" technology realizes the S5/5/5 configuration of CDMA BTS, a breakthrough from the limitation of inherent "3 carriers", which increases the capacity of Huawei's industry-leading CDMA BTS by 67% through higher integration, thus reducing the number of BTS base station required for carriers. The advance in CDMA technology has helped Huawei to secure a number of contract wins from top tier carriers throughout the world. www.huawei.com Related news items Consumers Want FMC: Companies Don't See The Benefit -02/10/2007 Nokia E51: Smarter Than It Looks -19/09/2007 Telstra Launches Another Coonan Attack -12/09/2007 NetComm Goes 3G With New Range -05/09/2007 Consumer Advice For Premium Mobile Services -03/09/2007 Newer news items Motorola Conquers Everest -23/05/2007 New Motorola Phones Announced -15/05/2007 Microsoft Reports Record Profit -29/04/2007 Is A Palm Sale Imminent? -20/03/2007 Nokia Hopes To Nix Qualcomm Patents -20/03/2007 Older news items Palm Shares A Roller Coaster -05/03/2007 Billion Phone Goal Missed By A RAZR Edge -05/03/2007 Nokia, RIM, Panasonic - In That Order -28/02/2007 Mobile Speakers For You Mobile Phone -25/02/2007 iPhone Fiasco Finished -21/02/2007 Tag This Now: