Thursday, December 28, 2006

Huawei upbeat about soaring mobile technology

By Naushad K. Cherrayil

Telecommunications equipment firm Huawei Technologies announced that it expects full-year contract sales worldwide to reach $11 billion by end of 2006.

In the first half of 2006, Huawei recorded contract sales of $5.2 billion, an increase of 29 per cent compared to the same period last year.

The China-based company signed an agreement with Saudi Telecom Company (STC) in July for deployment of a third generation (3G) mobile telephone network in the Dammam region of Saudi Arabia

Value of contract sales from international markets reached $3.4 billion, an increase of 36 per cent over the same period in 2005.

In 2003, Huawei partnered with etisalat to build third generation (3G) networks and the company has tendered a bid to du to implement a platform capable of transmitting video and other multimedia over fixed line telephones.

"Huawei can help operators to realise the full potential of their network assets and fulfill their Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) vision," said Dr Xu Zhijun, Huawei's Executive vice-president and chief marketing officer.

The company signed an agreement with STC in July to deploy a 3G network in the kingdom. Huawei also works with Telefonica, Vodafone and British Telecom.

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