Huawei, Ericsson India vs. 6 billion dollar bill

Every reporter Lucho from Shenzhen "Huawei will always be a formidable competitor in the future." After two years, Ericsson president and CEO think Angus words in the ear. Now these two big "enemies" are again against the Indian market, the Indian BSNL (BHARATSANCHARNIGAMLTD) company 93 million-line GSM and 3G equipment project.　　The project is expected to be about $6 billion trillion, the largest single contract in the global telecommunications market. Huawei yesterday told the Daily economic news that the company did participate in the bid and entered the short list, but the results were not yet available.　　It is reported that the Indian side of the relevant approval. Huawei and Ericsson laughed to the last few years, Ericsson and Huawei have frequently won the same bid, this time is no exception. Huawei and Ericsson are among the biggest winners of the 93 million-BSNL company's 6 billion-dollar GSM and 3G equipment project.　　including ZTE, Nokia Siemens and Alcatel-Lucent three companies also bid together, but in the technical tender phase was out, of which Nokia Siemens is BSNL early suppliers. It is reported that the BSNL company will be the bidding project divided into four regions, Ericsson access to the north, Huawei access to Western and southern, eastern two from the joint become a candidate supplier.　　As Bei District, Western and Southern districts have only one qualified vendor to bid, this means BSNL has accepted offers from Ericsson and Huawei. At present, BSNL company can not sign the contract, need to wait for India to provide the relevant equipment to the security approval.　　India will set up a special committee to conduct a national security assessment of the candidate suppliers before the contract is signed. Some sources said that the Ministry of Interior of India to foreign manufacturers expressed concern, particularly worried about Huawei.　　Yesterday, Huawei insiders, in an interview with the Daily economic news, denied it, saying it was a pure rumor. The rivalry between Huawei and Ericsson in the Indian market is not overnight, with two of rivals fighting. Ericsson president and CEO Angus has said that Huawei's accession makes the telecommunications market more competitive. But he argues that Huawei's growth share comes mainly from other distressed device makers, not Ericsson.　　Publicly available data show that Ericsson is the top of the three markets in China, Japan and the United States, while India is Huawei's largest overseas market. In the first quarter of this year, Ericsson achieved two major breakthroughs, including the launch of the 3G base station, which has been launched over the past 1990 years, and Ericsson is the first in three markets in China, Japan and the United States. Ericsson is also biting the Indian market. Public information shows that since 2005, Ericsson has planned to invest hundreds of millions of of dollars in India to build, to seize the Indian market.　　Ericsson's global market share has grown to its current 43%~44% of 33%~34% for more than 2003 years. Ericsson's recent quarterly report shows that the Chinese and Indian markets have become increasingly influential in Ericsson's performance, raising theSales of the letter also pulled down Ericsson's operating margins for the first quarter.　　A quarterly report shows that the company is in China and India market for large-scale network deployment. Ericsson said gross profit margins fell year-on-year, mainly because of the initial deployment of the 3G network and the growth of sales in India. Ericsson's Asia-Pacific market sales rose 26% in the first quarter.　　, with high deliveries in India, Indonesia and Vietnam. RELATED LINKS India has become Huawei's largest overseas sales market it is understood that Huawei began to enter the Indian market in 1999, in the first few years its market size has not been a major breakthrough, and 2006, 2007 sales revenue reached 200 million and 600 million U.S. dollars, and eventually make India its largest overseas sales market.　　Huawei insiders say this is because the Indian market is more sensitive to price than China and the price war is fiercer. Huawei India's data show that the company in 2008, respectively, in the wireless, optical network, core network and other fields have a breakthrough, successively with Reliance Telecom, Tata Telecom and other mainstream operators signed including GSM, CDMA equipment and service contract, the total contract in 2008 exceeded 2 billion U.S. dollars, Achieve sales revenue up to 1.3 billion dollars.　　Currently, Huawei's overseas market contract sales accounted for 75% of total contract sales. Public data show that, for example, 2008-year operating income, Huawei is the world's fourth-largest telecoms equipment provider with 18.33 billion U.S. dollars.　　Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens are 24.47 billion U.S. dollars, 21.97 billion U.S. dollars, and 19.78 billion U.S. dollars respectively. Although Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens Operating income gap is small, but compared with Ericsson still has a large gap of 6 billion dollars. However, the company, based on its 2008-year operating income of $18.33 billion, became the fourth-largest telecoms equipment company for the second consecutive year, and if Huawei grows unchanged, it is expected to become the second-largest telecoms device after Ericsson this year, analysts say.