Huawei eyes Windows Phone 7 smartphones

Huawei would be the eighth original equipment manufacturer to join the WP7 league, besides HTC, LG, Nokia, Samsung, Acer, Fujitsu and ZTE.

In yet another boost for Windows Phone 7, Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has expressed its interest in the operating system.

"We are in discussions with Microsoft and will probably bring a Windows Phone to market next year," chief strategy and marketing officer of Huawei, Victor Xu was quoted as saying by a UK website.

Neotel’s new home phone reviewed

Neotel this week unveiled a new “fixed-wireless” handset aimed at the retail consumer market. TechCentral put the device, made by China’s ZTE, through its paces.

The handset, which uses Neotel’s wireless code division multiple access (CDMA) network, is aimed at consumers who are looking for an alternative telephony solution to options available from Telkom.

ZTE to supply CDMA upgrade to MTS India

India’s Sistema Shyam TeleServices has awarded what is claimed to be the world’s first CDMA EV-DO Rev B Phase 2 commercial contract to ZTE. 

Sistema Shyam, a joint Russian-Indian company which uses the MTS brand, will be able to increase the speed of its services following the upgrade. 

The commercial launch will begin in Rajasthan. ZTE also received CDMA expansion contracts and EV-DO upgrade contracts for 10 of MTS’s districts. 

The Phase 2 technology could further optimise the base station cell capacity, spectrum efficiency and peak rate. It can attain speed rate as fast as 4.9 megabits in single frequency carrier and 14.7 megabits in a three-frequency carrier bundle.

ZTE bags telecom equipment contract from SSTL

NEW DELHI: China-based telecom equipment-maker ZTE Corporation today said it has bagged technology expansion contracts from Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd (SSTL) for an undisclosed amount. 

ZTE has won CDMA expansion contracts and EV-DO -- a network protocol used by cell phones for wireless Internet communications -- upgrade contracts for 10 circles of SSTL, which operates under MTS brand, ZTE said in a statement. 

However, the company did not disclose the financial details of the contract. 

The company will commercially launch the EV-DO Rev.B Phase 2 in Rajasthan. The commercial use of EV-DO Rev.B technology will greatly enhance the existing service speeds of mobile broadband on SSTL's network. 

List of telecom Companies – Top telecom vendors in India

These telecom vendors are working in almost every  states/circles in india , in which gurgaon, noida, delhi, ambala, banglore, chandigarh , delhi , mumbai, hyderabad , chennai, karnataka, kolkata , orissa are the major location from where they operate.

List of Top Telecom / Telecommunication Vendor Companies  in India

1)Nokia Siemens Networks.

2) Huawei

3) Ericsson

4) ZTE

5) Alcatel – Lucent

6) Ceragon Networks

7) Juniper Networks

8)Tejas Networks

9) NEC

10) Cisco

12) Avaya

13) Nortel

14) GTL

ZTE to provide VAS to Telenor

ZTE a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions on Thursday announced contracts with Telenor Norway, Telenor Sweden and Telenor Denmark, to replace and expand the platforms for Voicemail, SMS, MMS, Location Based Services and WAP GW.

ZTE will upgrade the existing platforms to an integrated platform solution that enables the services to share hardware and capacity resources. ZTE’s innovative iVAS (Integrated Value Added Service) solution minimises CAPEX through dynamic capacity allocation and reduces OPEX through decreased power consumption and centralised operations.

Can ZTE become a Top 5 Smartphone Manufacturer by year end?

That sounds pretty optimistic to me. Being in competition with the likes of HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, LG, and Erricson, I say they have a long hard road ahead of them. Either way, why not shoot for the stars right? They take on this challenge, by showing their first quarter sales being up 51% over this time last year. And i like their new term “smart terminals”. Which would seem to refer to all devices, be it a smartphone, or a tablet. Hit the source for more on the story.

Top five mobile brands

Nokia continues to sell the most mobile handsets in the world, followed by Samsung, LG Electronics and Apple, according to a new IDC report. ZTE, a Chinese manufacturer that sells affordable handsets which are usually bundled with a service provider, is the fifth largest mobile handset brand in the world today.

Nokia, IDC said, is still getting a warm reception for its Symbian-powered smartphones despite being in a transformational phase. The company introduced the E6 and X7 recently. Both run on the new Symbian Anna software. In mobile phones, Nokia ramped up shipments of its C3 and X201 from last year and announced a dual-SIM phone, the Nokia C2.

In the January-March quarter this year, Nokia sold 108.5 million handsets around the world. "What remains to be seen is how quickly Nokia will introduce new phones as competition intensifies. The company had 29.2 per cent market share (at the end of Q1 2011,) down from last year's 34.7 per cent," the IDC report added.

Samsung is at the number 2 spot with 70 million handsets sold in the quarter, which is a record for the Korean company. However, it lost market share and commands just 18.8 per cent now versus last year's 20.7 per cent.

Although feature phones comprised the majority of Samsung's shipments, smartphones represented a greater share from a year ago, nearly a fifth of its total volumes.

"Samsung appears well poised to reach its goal of shipping 50 million smartphones this year with new models, including the Galaxy S II 4G smartphones that are expected to hit the market later on," the IDC report predicted.

LG Electronics is the only player among the top five to see a decline (which is 9.6 per cent) in its shipments this quarter. The company hopes to deliver better second quarter performance with the introduction of products such as LG Revolution, which will run on the LTE network of Verizon Wireless (USA), and Big, which has a 4.3 inch screen, 1GHz dual core processor and Android 2.2.

"The question for LG will be whether feature phone-declines in emerging and other markets can be offset by smartphone gains in future," the report says.

Current market share of LG stood at 6.6 per cent versus last year's 8.7 per cent.

Apple, with five per cent market share, has maintained its number four spot on IDC's list. The company posted the highest year-on-year growth rate of the other four players with 114.9 per cent, while gaining more than 2 per cent of market share.

Apple's results were buoyed by strong sales on Verizon Wireless and additional carrier deals; the company is now on 186 carriers operating in 90 countries. The iPhone once again sold particularly well in developed economic regions of the world such as North America and Western Europe.

ZTE held on to the No 5 slot in the rankings thanks to strong year-on-year growth in countries and regions where it does particularly well, such as China and Latin America. ZTE primarily sells low-cost feature phones but the company is making a concerted effort to ship more Android smartphones. It said it will try to create brand awareness and sell more devices in developed markets like the USA this year.