According to ABI Research, telecom equipment maker Huawei led the radio access network (RAN) market in the second quarter of 2013.
Huawei?s revenues from the sales of RAN equipment witnessed a growth of 14.1 in the second quarter of 2013 and stood at CNY 25.6 billion. The company had a RAN market share of 31.1 per cent. Ericsson and Alcatel Lucent were the other two leading telecom equipment vendors in the RAN market in the second quarter of 2013. Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent had a market share of 23.4 per cent and 14.3 per cent each.
ABI Research states that revenues generated by mobile infrastructure RAN witnessed sequential growth of a 5.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2013 and stood at $7.7 billion. Further, the increase in the long term evolution led equipment sales coupled with industry-wide declines in GSM and CDMA-based telecom equipment sale in the regions such as North America and Latin America were the key growth drivers for the mobile RAN equipment market.
