Financials details were not disclosed. Russian oil-to-telecoms group Sistema, which has a joint joint venture with Shyam Group of India, has been allocated spectrum to provide telecom services in all the 22 circles across the country.

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A Huawei spokesman in India said a facility could be set up soon if the company decided to go ahead with the plan, but did not provide further details. The possibility of a new factory comes as Huawei’s hometown rival, ZTE Corp, another major exporter to India, said it was also considering building a factory. Industry sources have said the Indian government is not approving equipment orders from Chinese vendors because of security concerns.

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The proposed spending will be over five years, Ross Gan, a spokesman for Shenzhen, south China-based Huawei, said in an e-mailed statement Monday.

Huawei, a supplier to carriers including Bharti Airtel Ltd., seeks to win orders to build third-generation networks in the world?s fastest-growing mobile-phone market. Winning bidders in the government?s proposed auction for 3G airwaves will get spectrum by August, Telecommunications Minister Andimuthu Raja said last month.

Bharti Airtel, India?s biggest wireless carrier, may start 3G services by the Hindu festival of Diwali in November, Chief Executive Officer Manoj Kohli said in November 2009.

Huawei?s investment is part of the company?s plans to make India a hub for its global operations, Gan said.

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The company said in an e-mail its unaudited revenue in 2009 amounted to $21.5 billion, up 17% from $18.3 billion in 2008. But the growth was much slower than the 43% it saw in 2008, reported Dow Jones.

The company will benefit from stronger demand for network equipment as carriers expand the rollout of third-generation mobile services in China, said analysts.

Globally, telecom equipment vendors have suffered as carriers have sought to cut costs, and the construction of third-generation wireless networks, a boon to vendors previously, has gradually wound down in developed markets.

Huawei’s share of the global infrastructure market almost doubled in revenue terms to 20.1% in the third quarter from 10.9% a year earlier, taking the second spot after Sweden’s L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co., the world’s largest network equipment vendor, according to market research firm Dell’Oro.

In November, Norway’s largest telecom operator, Telenor ASA, selected Huawei to supply its new Norwegian wireless network, replacing gear supplied by Ericsson and Nokia Siemens.

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The company’s U.S. revenues grew 60 percent to $250 million last year, and revenue growth in 2009 would exceed that, Charlie Chen, Huawei’s senior vice president in charge of US business, told Reuters.

Chen also reiterated the company’s group target of $30 billion in sales for 2009.

Huawei and domestic rival ZTE Corp both nearly doubled their global market share in the second quarter, as China’s telecoms carriers are in the middle of a $58.5 billion spending spree to build new 3G networks.

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Increases in sales are expected from Wimax equipment sales overseas and from the 3G networks domestically.

Zhao Ming, Huawei’s head of CDMA and Wimax operations said that Wimax began to take off last year and Huawei expects equipment sales of the wireless broadband technology to double next year to $1 billion.

“This year it will be around $500 million … and next year it should be around $1 billion,” said Zhao, who also believes that sales will continue to grow rapidly in emerging markets where fixed line networks are poorly developed.

Wimax, offers blanket coverage of a city or small geographic area, and is best suited for emerging markets that don’t have a developed fixed-line network as well as rural areas in developed markets where wired broadband service is spotty, say analysts.

The company only had about $150 million in Wimax equipment sales in 2007, but falling prices have made the maturing technology more affordable to millions of users, said Zhao.

“You can now find terminal prices of under $100,” he said.

The price for such hardware — which allows broadband connections in areas that previously had little or no telephony services — was about $1,000 per customer four years ago and as much as $200-$250 last year.

“The growth will come from Asia, Africa and the Middle East,” he said. The technology, however, has limited uses in China, which boasts the world’s largest mobile market with over 600 million subscribers.

Industry sources forecast that Wimax users could grow to 100 million by 2012 from about 3.6 million people worldwide in 2007.

Huawei roughly doubled its market share from a year ago to became the world’s third-largest mobile network gear maker in the first quarter, overtaking Alcatel-Lucent , according to researcher Dell’Oro.

The global telecom equipment market contracted 9 percent in the first quarter of 2009 from a year ago, but China 3G tenders will likely prevent the market from falling further, according to Dell’Oro.

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Occupying more than 1600 mu, the new center is located in Nanjing Yuhua Science Park, which is one of the largest science and technology parks in China and is expected to host more than 300 high-tech enterprises by 2010.

Apart from Huawei, a dozen of other famous software companies including Neusoft and China National Software & Service Co., Ltd. have also begun to set up their R&D centers in the park that is known for its advantageous geographic location.

After a few years of waiting for the network to finally arrive, 3G in China appears to soon be available to users. China Mobile says it has fulfilled its commitment to providing 3G service for the Beijing Olympic Games by delivering 15000 Samsung TD-SCDMA mobile phones and related services to the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee.

And during the signing of a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Municipal Informatization Commission, China Mobile recently disclosed that the company would build more than 3000 3G base stations in Shanghai and apply such advanced wireless broadband technology as Wi-Fi and HSDPA throughout the city’s wireless infrastructure. A representative from China Mobile (Shanghai) said that China Mobile would construct 3000 TD-SCDMA base stations in Shanghai this year as a part of its effort to realize full wireless broadband coverage of the city.nd other expenses.

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