China Unicom selects five firms as W-CDMA vendors
China Unicom has selected five firms for the deployment of W-CDMA infrastructure. The selected companies are listed below:
(Name of the companies) (Shares %)
- Huawei 30.6%
- Ericsson 26.5%
- ZTE 21.5%
- Nokia Siemens Networks 11.1%
- Alcatel-Lucent 10.2%
China Unicom is planning to deploy 3G networks in 55 cities in the first half of this year, spending RMB30 billion (USD4.39 billion), and 280 cities by the end of 2009, at a cost of RMB60 billion. The firm is reportedly targeting the completion of the first flagship city networks by 17 April and the first commercial network launches on 17 May 2009.
