Huawei Retains Its No.3 Position in the 2009 Global Service Provider IP Router Market Tweet

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, recently announced that according to the 2009 annual data from Infonetics Research, Huawei kept its strong growth in the global service provider IP router market with a revenue market share of 14.21%, retaining the third position and standing out as the industry's only vendor with significant market share growth.

With regard to specific equipment segments, Huawei ranked No. 3 in both the IP core router and IP edge router, with market shares of 10.60% and 15.61% respectively. In terms of regions, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are the major contributing regions, where Huawei secured number two position with a market share of 20.83%.

"Infonetics' report for 2009 reflects Huawei' s strong momentum in IP field " said Zha Jun, president of Network, Huawei, " As part of Huawei' s All-IP convergence strategy ,our router portfolio is well suited to support the continued and rapid growth in internet and business traffic. We will continue to strengthen our efforts in the IP field and focus on addressing challenges of carriers evolving towards ultra-broadband."

In 2009, Huawei reinforced its leadership in service provider IP router with a series of innovations, including the Solar 2.0 100G chipset, industry' s end-to-end 100G solution, IP-and-OTN synergy, commercial deployment of NE5000E 2+4 cluster system, and 300 mm-depth "Mini" metro service platform (CX600-X1/X2). At the same time, Huawei's "SingleMetro, MultiPlay" solution has attracted wide attention and won recognition from operators worldwide since its launch in 2009. So far, the "SingleMetro, MultiPlay" solution has mass commercial deployment in the world's leading operators including Telefonica, Mobistar, and Bharti Airtel.


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Motorola handset component supply chain in Taiwan likely to undergo rearrangement Tweet

The supply chain of handset keypads, cases, panels, PCBs and camera modules for Motorola in Taiwan may come to a rearrangement as Arima Communications is likely to replace Compal Communications as the largest production partner for the US handset vendor, according to industry sources.

Motorola aims to ship 30 million Android-based smartphones as well as 30 million entry-level feature phones in 2010, with plans to outsource the production of all feature phones to ODM makers in Taiwan and China, said the sources, who are familiar with Motorola roadmap.

Motorola has selected 4-5 makers in Taiwan and China as potential partners and may release orders for 10-20 new handsets to those partners, indicated the sources, noting that most new feature phones will be built using MediaTek chipset solutions.

Arima reportedly will receive a windfall of orders from Motorola due to its expertise in the manufacture of MediaTek-based handsets, according to earlier reporters.

Having begun releasing orders to new partners, Motorola has also allowed the new partners to choose their own suppliers for related parts and components, and this policy will affect the supply chain for keypads, PCBs, cases, electronics and audio components, panels and camera modules, the sources noted.

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Bharti Airtel extends partnership with Ericsson Tweet

USD 1.3 billion network expansion contract

· Airtel users to enjoy an enhanced voice quality and faster data access

· Agreement will enable Airtel to put in place a converged network and expanded coverage in rural India

· Ericsson will expand and upgrade Airtel's network in 15 circles

Today, Bharti Airtel and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) further strengthened their strategic partnership with a USD 1.3 billion network expansion contract. Airtel users will enjoy an enhanced voice quality and faster data access. The agreement will enable Airtel to put in place a converged network and expanded coverage in rural India. Ericsson will expand and upgrade Airtel's network in 15 of India's 22 telecom circles.

"Our pioneering model of aligning with strategic partners who share our vision and bring in world-class experience and expertise to execute our plans has helped us focus on our customers and market place," says Sanjay Kapoor, CEO- India & South Asia, Bharti Airtel. "The extension of our fifteen years association with Ericsson is testimony to the strength of the relationship as well as the success of the model. We continue to be delighted with Ericsson's expertise in network expansion and transformation, helping us to reduce operating expenditures and enhance network quality. This way we can continue to provide a superior customer experience."

Hans Vestberg, President and CEO of Ericsson, says "Airtel is poised to spearhead the next telecom revolution in India and take the 2G experience to greater heights. In this partnership, we will set a new benchmark for the world in terms of network size and quality, types of services and end-user experience."

As part of this contract, Ericsson will supply its industry-leading portfolio of energy efficient 2G/2.5G radio base stations, circuit and packet core, microwave transmission and Intelligent Network. In addition, Ericsson will ensure that Bharti Airtel's core and transport network is 3G-ready in order to reduce time to market and enable the fast rollout of 3G services at a later date. The expansion covers introduction of some of the latest technologies within the wireless world which will bring better quality voice to end users, support more users in using one base station, enhanced data rates using Evolved EDGE technology and other new services.

Ericsson is the largest telecom network supplier supplying, for example, mobile, wire line, DTH, device management and variety of services such as prepaid to Airtel.

Notes to editors:

About Bharti Airtel Limited

Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is among Asia's leading integrated telecom services providers with operations in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. In South Asia, the company had an aggregate of over 134 million customers as of the end February 2010, including 124.6 million mobile customers in India. Bharti Airtel has been ranked among the six best performing technology companies in the world by BusinessWeek.

Bharti Airtel is structured as four strategic business units - Mobile, Telemedia, Enterprise and Digital TV. The mobile business offers services in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The Telemedia business provides broadband, IPTV and telephone services in 94 Indian cities. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long-distance services to carriers. The Digital TV business provides DTH services across India. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel's national high-speed optic-fiber network currently spans over 118,337km across India. Airtel's international network infrastructure includes ownership of the i2i submarine cable system and consortium ownership in five global undersea cable systems, SEA-ME-WE 4, EIG, I-ME-WE, AAG and UNITY. For more information, visit www.airtel.in

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Change in Ericsson's executive leadership team Tweet

Marita Hellberg, current head of corporate HR, takes on HR in China and North East Asia

· Effective as of July 1st

Marita Hellberg, currently Senior Vice President and Head of Human Resources for the Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) Group, has been appointed to take over as Head of Human Resources of Ericsson's new region China and North East Asia.

"This is a great and exciting challenge for me. China and North East Asia are today among the fastest growing and most sophisticated telecommunications markets in the world," says Marita Hellberg. "Ericsson's new regional set-up aims to drive flexibility, speed and innovation in our organization, but it will also require a strong focus from the human resources and cultural perspective."

Marita Hellberg joined Ericsson in 1978 and before becoming Head of corporate Human Resources she held various positions in that area in different parts of the organization. Hellberg was born in Djurö, Sweden, in 1955 and graduated in social studies from the University of Stockholm.

The search for Marita Hellberg's replacement has started; a new Head of HR will be announced separately.

Notes to editors:

Photos of Marita Hellberg:

www.ericsson.com/ericsson/press/photos/marita_hellberg.shtml

Profile and video of Marita Hellberg:

www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/management/marita_hellberg.shtml

Press release new organization:

www.ericsson.com/thecompany/press/releases/2010/02/1381506

Ericsson's Executive Leadership Team

http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/management/index.shtml

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Aster Selects Motorola RFoG Solution to Extend Triple-Play Services and Increase Bandwidth Tweet

Motorola enables Aster to deliver ultra-broadband services over an all-fibre network.

WARSAW, Poland – Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) has announced that its Home business has been selected by Aster for a pilot commercial deployment of its RF over Glass (RFoG) solution. Motorola's end-to-end RFoG solution will enable Aster to economically roll out an advanced fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network and deliver new ultra-broadband triple-play services.

All-fiber RFoG solutions have proven to be both cost effective and easy to deploy, providing cable operators another way to expand their service offerings while leveraging current network investments and maintaining existing back office operations, video infrastructure, and customer premises equipment (CPE).

“Motorola’s RFoG solution enables us to evolve our service offering and deliver new ultra-broadband services,. We selected Motorola’s solution as it offers a cost effective and straightforward migration path to a future all-fiber network and enables us to meet the ever increasing demand for rich media experiences and triple play services.” Wiesław Oleksiak, CTO, Aster.

Aster’s roll out of the network will include the deployment of Motorola's SG4000 modular optical node for an RFoG application – which enables cable operators to extend their reach into previously unconnected areas and serve more subscribers.

“As consumers demand faster data connections and richer media services, cable operators such as Aster are turning to all-fibre networks for cost-effective service deliver,” stated Steve McCaffery, vice president and general manager for Motorola’s Home business in EMEA. “Our RFoG portfolio bridges HFC solutions and PON solutions and provides an economically responsible network evolution for cable operators.”

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Motorola Wins Largest TETRA Terminal Award from German Federal Ministry of Interior Tweet

Contract includes the delivery of approximately 53,000 TETRA digital radio terminals – Motorola´s largest single public safety TETRA terminal contract in Europe

IDSTEIN, Germany – The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business of Motorola, Inc (NYSE: MOT), a world leading provider of mission critical communications solutions, announced that it will supply the Central Procurement Office of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (Beschaffungsamt des Bundesministeriums des Innern - BMI) with an estimated 53,000 TETRA digital two-way radios. This is the largest award from the federal government and regional states for a TETRA terminal rollout in Germany. It also represents the largest single public safety contract ever received by Motorola in Europe for TETRA radio devices and one of the largest TETRA contracts in the world.

Over the next three years Motorola will supply the federal public safety users, which includes the federal police (Bundespolizei), the federal criminal police (Bundeskriminalamt), the German federal agency for technical relief (Technisches Hilfswerk), German customs and other public safety bodies with portable and mobile TETRA terminals as well as accessories and services.

The contract includes portable and mobile TETRA radios including a tailored vehicle solution to aid the migration of users from existing analogue radio services to the new TETRA network. In addition, Motorola will provide its “integrated Terminal Management” (iTM) solution to centrally manage the configuration of each radio. This significant win for Motorola continues to build the company’s reputation as the leading supplier of TETRA terminals for mission critical communications. The German Federal Ministry of Interior contract follows other recent terminal wins in the country for Motorola. German regional authorities that have adopted Motorola’s TETRA radio standards include Berlin, Thuringia and Schleswig-Holstein.

The contract includes the new MTP850FuG handheld, an easy-to-use and robust device that includes core features such as secure, reliable voice and data communications. It also incorporates additional features to comply with German public safety authority standards and requirements.

The key safety features incorporated into the MTP850FuG are:

* End-to-end encryption compliant with Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) standards
* Compliant with BOS (Behörden und Organisationen mit Sicherheitsaufgaben - German public safety authorities) functional requirements Transmission power of up to 1.8 watts for extended coverage, especially in Direct Mode Operation (DMO)
* FMS (Funk-Melde-System) status application and acoustic receipt function, for fast and efficient communications
* A “Man Down” feature that sends an alert to the dispatcher if the radio does not move in a given period of time or tilts past a defined angle

These and other features help end-users to migrate easily from their existing analogue devices to the new TETRA digital radio. The rugged terminals offer public safety users an easy-to-use interface, which has been developed specifically to ensure the devices are intuitive to operate and therefore meet the needs of the mission critical end-user.

Another key element of the contract is the supply of customised vehicle solutions, where the new TETRA mobile radio can be installed alongside existing analogue radios, allowing communications between the existing analogue and TETRA systems – while providing a simple user interface. This supports the migration of users’ radio services from the old analogue to TETRA digital radio technology.

Motorola will also supply its Integrated Terminal Management (iTM) solution that will allow the users groups of the federal government to remotely manage the software and configurations of every radio terminal from a central location. Based on an enterprise-grade client-server architecture, iTM operates over a standard IP network, which allows the customer to integrate iTM seamlessly into their existing IT networks for enhanced security. The iTM solution improves the speed and reliability with which software updates and radio-configuration changes can be carried out across the whole system. This contributes to officer safety as well as efficient management and security of the terminals.

“We are delighted to supply the Central Procurement Office of the German Federal Ministry of Interior with perhaps the largest number of TETRA terminals ever covered within a single award. This is an exciting step for Motorola as we will deliver our TETRA terminals to federal organisations across the entire country and pays testimony to our competitiveness and leadership position as we continue to strive for excellence in the deployment of mission critical solutions,” said Manuel Torres, corporate vice president and general manager, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions Business, EMEA. “The end-user is always at the forefront of our terminal development and the MTP850FuG is the perfect example of this approach: It is a rugged and intuitive device designed for the needs and specifications of public safety users in the German market.”

The Motorola TETRA portfolio includes infrastructure solutions, terminals, applications and services that are used in more than 90 countries worldwide. To date, the company has been able to maintain its leading position in the sector of TETRA digital radio solutions. The rugged, intuitively operated products from Motorola already undergo extensive tests during the development phase to ensure high quality and reliable handling even under extreme conditions.

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Where do the opportunities lie for innovation in materials – Design by Community Tweet

GLOBAL – With materials top of this week’s agenda, we turned to longtime Nokia and Symbian Guru, Ricky Cadden, community manager of Symbian-Guru.com and known worldwide simply as ‘The Guru’. He’s packaged up his thoughts in response to the questions we posed: When it comes to materials in mobile devices, where do the opportunities lie for innovation and what materials would you like to see used in the future and why? Read on after the jump to get The Guru’s take.

When it comes to materials in mobile devices, where do the opportunities lie for innovation? What materials would you like to see used in the future and why?
Ricky Cadden, Community Manager, Symbian-Guru.com

As companies consider how to build future devices, one area that simply cannot be ignored is the materials used in the process. Just as in the various features on a mobile device, there are countless opportunities for innovation in the materials that we use to build tomorrow’s mobile devices. For the most part, you could easily classify the innovations into either environmental or performance related.

Environmental

We’re only just starting to see the effects that the green movement has had on technology, but we’re going to be seeing plenty more over the next few years. Nokia is already waist-deep in this category of innovation with phones such as the 3110 Evolve, which was announced at Nokia World 2008. The 3110 Evolve is almost an exact copy of the original 3110 Classic, but uses far more environmentally-friendly materials. Biodegradable plastics, significantly reduced packaging, and other improvements help the phone make a smaller impact on the world it is used in. Moving forward, there are tremendous opportunities in corn-based plastics and other natural materials. Another side benefit is that often, these materials are cheaper and use less energy to produce.

The key for manufacturers with an eye for the environment is that consumers often are not willing to sacrifice features or design in exchange for a more ‘green’ phone. Biodegradable plastic needs to look and feel like ‘normal’ plastic, for instance, and the phones that are designed to be more environmentally friendly shouldn’t scrimp on features, either.

Performance

Traditionally, mobile devices are typically made up of plastics or metal, a bit of glass, and rubber. While these materials have held up nicely over the years, there is, always, room for improvement. Carbon Fiber is one material that I would like to see in future devices, as it offers a tremendous improvement in durability and sturdiness without adding substantial heft. Antimicrobial surfaces are also an area of opportunity for the mobile industry. We already see these on many handsets for the Japanese market, but any mobile phone is a candidate, as they’re always being pressed against your face or passed from hand to germ-filled hand.

Of course, the fit and finish of these new materials is also something to consider. In the past, there has been a focus on high-gloss shiny finishes that really catch users’ eyes. Unfortunately, as we all know, these materials are a nightmare to use on an ongoing basis, as you constantly have to clean and polish them. Soft-touch coverings have started to make an entrance, and personally, I would prefer to have soft-touch on all of my mobile devices, as it provides better grip in most circumstances.

Materials used in the battery of tomorrow’s mobile device are equally important. Batteries tend to be the most dangerous part of the phone when it comes to the environment, and manufacturers are already looking for alternative ways to power your phone. Solar panels instantly come to mind as one of the most under-utilized technologies for powering mobile devices. Of course, I wouldn’t expect to only use the sun to charge my phone, but having the entire back panel as a solar panel would certainly make top-ups throughout the day a much less painful part of using my mobile device.

Conclusion

As Nokia pushes into this Design by Community experiment, it’s incredibly important to consider the materials used along the way. By focusing on more Earth-friendly materials and manufacturing processes, the phone of tomorrow has a better chance of actually existing.

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