Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Huawei") announced yesterday that in the first half of this year, both Huawei's UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) and GSM achieved a year-on-year growth of over 100% in shipments. To date, Huawei has secured 111 UMTS/HSPA (3.5G) contracts globally and ranked first in the industry with 25 new contracts added in the first half of the year.
Huawei continues to maintain a rapid growth trend in GSM. In the first half of this year, GSM shipments exceeded 800,000 carriers, surpassing last year's total annual shipments. Shipments to just the two emerging markets of China and India reached 400,000 carriers.