Flagship Chinese telecoms equipment maker Alcatel Shanghai Bell (ASB) saw its overseas sales including exports double in the first 10 months of this year, a company executive said. Overseas sales including exports already account for half of the firm's total revenues.

ASB, launched in 2002, is a joint venture between communications giant Alcatel and the Chinese Government. Alcatel, which completed a merger with Lucent on November 30, owns 50 per cent plus a share in ASB, which is supervised by China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC).

Dega attributed the surging overseas sales to Alcatel's sprawling business networks around the world as well as strong backing from the Chinese Government.The ever-strengthening co-operation between the Chinese Government and developing countries has greatly benefited ASB's overseas expansions.

As a Chinese firm, ASB has secured some financial lines from the Chinese Government, which helped the firm win network equipment contracts in a number of countries such as Thailand, Laos and White Russia.

ASB's sales in China, including both the fixed-line and cellular network gear, also experienced robust sales during January-October, Dega said, without offering specific figures.

Mobile operators have been expanding their network capacity this year and ASB has grabbed many orders. ASB also has won contracts to deploy NGN (next generation network) networks from China Netcom, the country's No 2 fixed-line carrier, in Beijing, Tianjin and Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Dega expects ASB to grab an even larger share of China's telecoms equipment market, after the Alcatel-Lucent merger and the acquisition of the 3G (third generation) UMTS business of Canada's Nortel Networks.

ASB will be the only telecoms equipment maker to have all three standards for 3G telephony, which could put the firm at an advantageous position in China's future 3G market. The three standards include the Europe-initiated WCDMA, known as UMTS, US-backed CDMA 2000 and China's home-grown TD-SCDMA.

Source:佚名