Q2 Mobile Base Station Contracts Jump Sharply as ZTE Edges Out Huawei

(Business News & Technology News, 4 Aug 2008)

Second quarter base station contracts worldwide reached 67, up from 47 in the first quarter of 2008, according to EJL Wireless Research.

"ZTE secured 31 percent of total contract awards during the June 30, 2008 ended quarter, edging out Huawei which had 30 percent. Chinese OEMs captured 61 percent of overall contracts while each major base station vendor secured at least one win during the quarter. Both Motorola and Nortel Networks each managed to secure only one contract in Q2. Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent each won billion dollar contracts from China Mobile during the quarter," says Earl Lum, EJL Wireless Research founder and president.

According to Lum, demand remained concentrated in both the Asia-Pacific region and Africa during the quarter. CDMA2000 dipped from the jump in the previous quarter, but Chinese OEMs continue to dominate this segment as they captured 100 percent of global CDMA contracts in the second quarter.

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