"This tender marks a complete change in the industry dynamics within the domestic wireless market for China in that the local Chinese equipment vendors are now winning the majority of the available contracts for next generation 3G technologies including both CDMA2000 and TD-SCDMA," says founder and President, Earl Lum.

"The aggressive pricing strategy by Huawei Technologies may serve as a warning to the rest of the wireless industry as to how future tenders in China for 3G technologies may evolve, especially the upcoming W-CDMA tender for China Unicom," says Lum.

The report includes detailed analysis for both CDMA2000 1xRTT and CDMA2000 EVDO Rev. A technologies and analysis of the six wireless equipment vendor winners: Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei Technologies, Motorola, Nortel Networks, Samsung Electronics, and ZTE. The report is currently available for purchase and information can be downloaded at www.ejlwireless.com .

Keywords: china unicom, cdma network lucent, tender analysis, china telecom, nortel networks, huawei technologies, president earl, industry dynamics, equipment vendor, cdma2000, scdma, 1xrtt, samsung electronics, pricing strategy, evdo, zte, lucent, 3G

By Robert Hoskins

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