Jessica Figueras, Practice Leader of Service Infrastructure at Ovum, comments on: Mobile World Congress 2008: Telecoms software vendors will be next to feel the heat from Huawei.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-26 February 2008-OVUM: Jessica Figueras, Practice Leader of Service Infrastructure at Ovum, comments on: Mobile World Congress 2008: Telecoms software vendors will be next to feel the heat from Huawei(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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For me, the most eye-opening briefing at this year's MWC was with executives from Huawei's software division.

Huawei's aggressive expansion into the global network equipment market has already struck fear into the hearts of the established equipment providers. But according to its executives it also achieved $1.4bn in software sales in 2007, 55% of which came from outside China. That would make Huawei's 7,000 employee software business just under half the size of Amdocs, and...