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This is good news as it kept Ericsson on the battle field. Nokia is looking a lot worst though may be it will merge with Ericsson some day. In terms of telecom equipment industry Huawei is now bigger than Nokia and Ericsson combined. And may be I am the only one not entirely comfortable with that.

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I don't know from where exactly you get this impression but last time I checked they only had a 1% difference (28% versus 27% and Nokia 23% with 2017 figures [0]). I can tell you that Ericsson is in a much better position than Huawei. And although I would also like an Ericsson Nokia merger, I don't see it happening soon ;-)

[0] https://technology.ihs.com/600864/global-mobile-infrastructu...

Interesting.

Because even if you take out all the revenue from the consumer mobile phone business, which is growing rapidly as we speaks, the revenue from the rest of Huawei is still bigger than Everything of Nokia and Ericsson combined, in both 2016 and 2017.

[1] http://telecoms.com/481009/huawei-2016-numbers-reveal-the-ex...

[2] http://telecoms.com/488793/2017-numbers-show-how-much-huawei...

It seems they are using both companies to build out their network.

T-Mobile and Nokia Ink $3.5 Billion, Multi-year 5G Network Agreement

https://www.t-mobile.com/news/nokia-5g-agreement

"don't put all your eggs in one basket" There is a reason most vendors pick from 2 or more manufacturers/suppliers.

I've long wondered if the best way to buy software may be to just buy from multiple vendors and see what works best, damned the purchase costs, just to fix the information asymmetry.

well, if you are on the buy side, you can have the vendor demonstrate interop via rfp etc. that might be one way to go about it...

Why are you concerned about Huawei being bigger?

I suspect because it is a Chinese company and having key national infrastructure built by a Chinese company leaves some Americans nervous over national security fears.

This article goes into more detail https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-america-is-so-...

Huawei is bigger than Nokia and Ericsson combined in telecom equipment market?

That does not sound right.

Do you have some numbers to back that up?

it sounded right to me, and i got to this [0] after a short google

ericsson doesnt sell mobile phones however, and nokia got screwed over by microsoft in that department.... that's probably at least a big chunk of that revenue.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/314657/top-10-telecom-eq...

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