TCL Telecom says core competitiveness stems from acquisition of Alcatel

Tcl Telecom (02618.HK) sales surged 181% to 14.2 million in the first half of the year, with overseas markets growing 226% to 12.9 million per cent over the same period last year.　　Guo Eping, the new manager of TCL Communications in January this year, said in an interview with the first financial daily, such as: TCL Communications to take the internationalization of the core competitiveness of the road, derived from the acquisition and restructuring of Alcatel-acquired talent and support.　　TCL Communications mainly sales of mobile phones and accessories, overseas market, the main push in 2004 to acquire the Alcatel brand, the domestic market is mainly TCL brand. April 2004, TCL Communications funded 55 million euros and Alcatel established tcl&alcatelmobilephonelimited mobile phone joint venture, TCL holds 55% shares.　　As Alcatel has core technology, sales channels, strategic operators of quality systems, TCL Communications can be the core of Alcatel and other core patents swaps, and TCL communications existing marketing team base system, but also from the Alcatel "copycat" after the improvement. From the sales volume, Tcl communications up to 90% from the overseas market is the Alcatel brand, the Chinese market accounted for only 9%. According to Guo Eping, TCL Communications in Latin America and Western Europe, the market share of 15% and 5% respectively.