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October 26, 2009

Huawei's Image is Improving Globally: Report

By Calvin Azuri, TMCnet Contributor


A recent report from Infonetics Research, an international market research and consulting firm that specializes in data networking and telecom, reportedly revealed that Huawei’s image is improving in the eyes of service providers.

 
The report, called “Mobile Infrastructure Vendor Ratings and Product Features: Global Service Provider Survey,” is part of Infonetics’ Mobile and LTE (News - Alert) Continuous Research Service. It polled purchase decision-makers at carriers in EMEA and Asia Pacific
 
According to the survey. service providers were asked about their familiarity with and ratings of mobile infrastructure vendors, which criteria are most important when selecting a vendor, and which features are most critical when purchasing RAN, mobile switching, mobile packet core, and Home Location Register equipment.
 
Stéphane Téral, principal analyst for mobile and FMC at Infonetics Research, said it is clear that Huawei (News - Alert) has really improved its global image based on the recent mobile infrastructure service provider survey, market share reporting, and other carrier surveys. The discussions held with mobile operators indicate Huawei is now perceived as having good technology and offering good value for the price. Téral also noted that Huawei is overtaking Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) on many fronts, and is also set to attack Nokia Siemens Networks’ market position in the mobile infrastructure space.
 
In the survey, service providers were asked an open-ended question about who they consider to be the top three mobile infrastructure vendors to which all the respondents answered Nokia Siemens Networks (News - Alert).
 
The survey also contains a rating of the five mobile infrastructure vendors, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco (News - Alert), Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia Siemens Networks on 8 criteria by service providers. The criteria are technology, product roadmap, security, management, price-to-performance ratio, pricing, financial stability, and service and support.
 
Among the infrastructure vendors, Ericsson received the highest ratings for service and support. The survey also found out that a majority of mobile operators are looking to reduce operating expenses by either outsourcing or sharing their RAN. This has resulted in related criteria becoming important in the vendor selection process.
 
For the report, Infonetics Research surveyed purchase decision-makers at service providers in Asia Pacific at 20 percent and Europe, the Middle East and Africa at 80 percent that operate a wireless network. The service providers participating in the mobile infrastructure vendor rating survey consisted of a mix of incumbents and competitive businesses that together represent 14 percent of the world’s carrier revenue and 12 percent of the world’s telecom capex.

Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney


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Fixed Mobile Convergence

encompasses a wide range of mobile services that converge elements of fixed communications infrastructure to complement the core mobile service. In most cases fixed mobile convergence (FMC) services allow the user or the network to take advantage of higher speed, cheaper local unlicensed access networks in local environments for lower value, high volume transactions.
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BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry MVS) BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry MVS) converges office desk phones and BlackBerry® smartphones, allowing users to access standard enterprise voice features whether at their desks or on the go*. BlackBerry MVS encompasses BlackBerry® MVS Client software for BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry MVS Services of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, and the Ascendent Voice Mobility Suite.

With BlackBerry MVS, BlackBerry smartphone users can access enterprise desk phone options directly from the menu interface of the BlackBerry phone application, while at the same time securely authenticating to the organization’s enterprise telephony system (PBX). BlackBerry MVS also gives IT administrators the control to set voice policies on the BlackBerry smartphone, so that inbound and outbound calls use the enterprise line. This allows for all mobile calls to be logged or recorded for compliance with regulatory or corporate standards.
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