Wireless makes up half of Huawei's income; wireless subscribers top 140 million

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 24 October 2005; 16649 views

More than half of Huawei's revenue this year has come from its sales of wireless products. From being, in Huawei's words: "just a mere participant in the field of wireless" the company has now become a worldwide leader, deploying its products in more than 50 countries...

Huawei has issued a statement in which it is keen to stress its achievements:

wireless products (including UMTS/CDMA2000/GSM) have now been deployed in more than 70 countries worldwide;
global use of Huawei wireless products now tops 140 million users, 100 million of whom are GSM-based users;
the company's GSM system serves more than 100 million mobile subscribers in around 60 countries globally, and features 400,000 carriers on the GSM BTS platform;
Huawei's mobile SoftSwitch application has over 40 million users worldwide; and
Huawei's CDMA2000 system currently serves more than 30 million subscribers in over 60 countries, which has turned Huawei into the most prolific CDMA provider in the Asia Pacific region.

As a 3G equipment supplier, Huawei has obtained 11 UMTS commercial contracts and 10 CDMA2000 1xEV-DO commercial contracts. Huawei's 3G solution has to date been deployed in the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand. The CDMA mobile SoftSwitch system is currently applied on a large-scale basis in Mexico and Pakistan and is used by CAT of Thailand to build a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO network that is believed to be the largest in Southeast Asia.