Scale of fixed investment in communication industry maintains an even tempo, and operators have changed the investment focus. Authorization of 3G licenses will be put off again, which will result in the cautious investments of the operators in 2005. Those equipment providers who intend to reshape the market share by 3G also need to readjust their market strategies.
High-speed developing period of mobile communication has paused temporarily. Both of the subscribers’ growth and the profits status represented the lack of growth drives regarding the operators.
Domestic communication equipment providers like HUAWEI and ZTE have earned great progress, and the technical gap is reduced more, with the result that some companies are not only competitive in the domestic market, but also beginning to aim at the global market.
Operators would increase IT investments that mainly focus on the operations and clients-management system.
The whole domestic mobile phone enterprises have seen a downturn in 2004. Due to the lack of core technologies and R&D abilities, domestic mobile phone manufacturers are all facing the deficiency in continuous development. Furthermore, customized mobile phones for operators will weaken the manufacturers’ function in the industry chain.
Next Generation Network (NGN) and Next Generation Internet (IPV6) will be hotspots chased by both equipment providers and operators, however, the R&D process of the equipment providers and the construction process of the operators have just set up, and the business mode has not been established, therefore, the market demand won’t appear in a short time.
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