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October 26, 2009

Huawei's Image Improving 'Dramatically': Study

By Narayan Bhat, TMCnet Contributor


Chinese mobile infrastructure vendor Huawei is no longer the seller of cheap technology at cheap price.
 
Armed with cutting-edge technology and offering strong value for money, Huawei (News - Alert) is fast improving its global image, says a new report from market analyst firm Infonetics Research.

 
“Based on our recent mobile infrastructure service provider survey, market share reporting, and other carrier surveys, one message is clear: Huawei has really improved its global image,” said the market research firm in a press release.
 
“Huawei is overtaking Alcatel-Lucent on many fronts, and is now en route to attacking NSN’s market position in the mobile infrastructure space. And watch out, because another Chinese telco equipment maker ZTE (News - Alert) is on the rise as well,” said Stéphane Téral of Infonetics.
 
As part of its mobile infrastructure vendor rating survey, Infonetics said it collected views from a mix of incumbents – comprising 80 percent – and competitive, or 20 percent, that together represent 14 percent of the world’s carrier revenue.
 
The survey has also found that a growing majority of mobile operators are looking at cutting operating expenses by either outsourcing or sharing their radio access network.
The service providers rated five mobile infrastructure vendors – Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks (News - Alert) – on a range of criteria including technology, product roadmap, security, management, price-to-performance ratio, pricing, financial stability, and service and support.
 
Among them, the report said, Ericsson (News - Alert) received the highest ratings for service and support. However, when asked who they consider to be the top three mobile infrastructure vendors, all respondents named Nokia Siemens Networks.
 
The majority of carriers, according to the researcher, named Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, Huawei top mobile WiMAX (News - Alert) vendors.

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

Edited by Erin Harrison


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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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