subject: Himfr.com Reports Ericsson And Huawei, Zte Into A Full-lte Vendors [print this page] According to overseas media reports Total Telecom, Ericsson, Nortel is expected to trade in the 30 to 45 days to complete, and designated head of CDMA. The transaction will also have a WCDMA-LTE, CDMA-LTE, TD-LTE three LTE direction, extends to the LTE migration routes, with Huawei, ZTE became the best layout for the LTE vendors.
Recently, Magnus Mandersson has been designated as Ericsson, Ericsson, the new head of CDMA division, he said in an interview in the court agreement, Ericsson and Nortel deal will be completed within 30-45 days, Ericsson is ready to absorb the integration of the business. Magnus Mandersson that the business acquisition will significantly strengthen Ericsson's position in the North American market, but he could not give the expected market share. He said, "We will become the market leader."
2008 Nortel CDMA operators in North America, about 20 billion U.S. dollars, Ericsson's business in North America, about 27 billion U.S. dollars, but mainly from the GSM and WCDMA, and related services. Ericsson has recently announced combination of Sprint service contract, in which the acquisition is completed, the North American market will become the single market, Ericsson's largest market and has more than 14,000 employees.
Magnus Mandersson said that Ericsson believes that the current network status based on CDMA in North America, CDMA business still has seven to 10-year life cycle.
Reported that the long-term focus on Ericsson LTE, the acquisition will allow Ericsson's existing CDMA operators to take advantage of LTE migration process, from Nortel over 2,500 officers, there will be half of which will focus on CDMA - LTE migration, the other will focus on the Chinese market TD-LTE migration.
Of this, Gartner research vice president of technology and service, said Jouni Forsman commented that the acquisition of Ericsson's North American market will get a much better position to strengthen the leadership in the CDMA market, Alcatel-Lucent challenge. In the end, this initiative will further enable Ericsson to become the market leader in LTE.
Reported that, Gartner recently the world's 10 largest LTE equipment suppliers were ranked highest score table first, Ericsson, Huawei and ZTE were ranked second and third place, NSN ranked fourth, Starent ranks fifth , while Alcatel-Lucent ranked sixth.
Gartner research director Sylvain Fabre believes that, NSN and Alcatel-Lucent, therefore need to continue to seek market segments.
