Everything’s coming up roses for Alcatel-Lucent this week, coming off a profitable quarter and billions in contracts in its pocket for Verizon and Chinese mobile operators, notes RCR Wireless. Headquartered in Paris, Alcatel-Lucent has operations in more than 130 countries.
Alcatel-Lucent’s $4 billion, four-year contract with Verizon Wireless is for the operator’s existing CDMA network and its new LTE network, as well as for IP, optical and microwave backhaul and transport and professional and network integration services. Alcatel-Lucent says its High Leverage Network allows multiple networks to be managed, leveraging Acatel-Lucent’s wireline, optical and wireless assets.
AlcaLu’s China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom contracts could total $1.167 billion. The deal with China Mobile covers GSM and TD-SCDMA wireless solutions, transmission equipment, IP routers and IP Multimedia Subsystem platforms and professional services.
China Telecom’s agreement covers CDMA, fiber- and DSL-based access platforms, IP routers, transmission equipment and applications, while the Unicom deal covers W-CDMA, GSM and femtocell solutions, fiber-based access platforms, IP routers, transmission equipment, managed services and solutions to converge telecom, Internet, TV broadcasting networks and 3G applications.
China-based telecommunications suppliers Huawei Technologies and ZTE are global powerhouses. Huawei is now the world No. 2 company in the mobile equipment industry behind Ericsson and ahead of Nokia Siemens Networks.
The telecommunications industry in China is dominated by three state-run businesses: China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile. As of June 2010, there were a total of 1.1 billion phone users in China, of which 306 million were fixed-line telephone users, and 796 million were mobile phone users.
