Huawei Joins Alcatel Reshaping Wireless Equipment Battle
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Huawei Technologies Co. and Alcatel-Lucent SA, challenging Ericsson AB’s leadership in the wireless equipment market, are reshaping tactics around services to gain a way into networks they’ve so far been shut out of.
Carriers coping with the explosion of data traffic and slowing consumer spending have turned to equipment vendors to reduce costs and improve network quality. That has boosted demand for services contracts, at a time when anemic equipment spending has weighed on infrastructure makers’ sales.