Huawei grabs #2 spot in wireless network market in Q4 2011 from Nokia Siemens

Telecom Lead Asia: Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has
overtaken Nokia Siemens Networks to grab second place in the wireless equipment
market in Q4 2011. Ericsson is the market leader, with approximately $3.5
billion in wireless network equipment sales during fourth quarter of 2011.

ABI Research said wireless equipment vendors performed well in the
fourth quarter of 2011. While finishing strong in the last quarter of every
calendar year is typical for vendors in this market, Huawei exceeded
expectations and overcame Nokia Siemens to grab second place in the market.

“Huawei had an exceptionally good fourth quarter. Preliminary
quarterly results of $2.53 billion for wireless networks were up 54 percent
quarter-on-quarter and 38 percent year-on-year. As a result, Huawei grabbed
second place from NSN in wireless network equipment market share for the fourth
quarter of 2011,” said Aditya Kaul, practice director, mobile networks, ABI
Research.

In general, fourth quarter 2011 revenues were down year-on-year
from fourth quarter 2010. Wireless network operators did not spend as much in the
fourth quarter as they have in past years, presumably taking a cautious
approach due to uncertainty of the macroeconomic situation.

Recently, Signals and Systems Telecom said that the revenue
of the global cellular network infrastructure market was $46.5 billion in
the fourth quarter of 2011.

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10 cellular network infrastructure vendors in Q4 2011

According to Signals and Systems Telecom,
Ericsson clocked $16.51 billion revenue from cellular network infrastructure
business in Q4 2011. Nokia Siemens Networks has the second position with 19.2
percent market share.

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