ZTE overtakes Alcatel-Lucent in global wireless gear market

ZTE Corp today claimed overtaking Alcatel-Lucent in global wireless equipment market for the year 2009. ZTE s market share at the end of the year reached 12.6% in terms of carrier frequency with macro base station market share of ZTE reaching 9.1% in Q4 2009 reveals a new study from Infonetics Research.

In GSM space, the research says that ZTE managed shipments of over 750,000 carrier frequencies with the company s share rising to about 20% thereby making it among the top 3 GSM equipment vendors across the globe.

The report also states that by 2014, LTE, GSM and WCDMA will have 22%, 30% and 42% share of the global RAN market. In terms of system, WCDMA RAN overtook GSM market for the first time with a market share of 41%. GSM s share was at 36%, CDMA s at 16% and TD had a 7% share.

The global RAN market overall reported a 9.2% drop in revenues to slide to $ 38.6 billion in 2009 from $ 42.5 billion in 2008.

Interestingly one third of the world s 3G base stations were deployed in China alone which exclude RRH or Remote Radio Head based base stations. Infonetics forecasts that the global wireless market will register a single digit growth in 2009.

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