{"id":548426,"date":"2006-04-03T16:13:56","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T16:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548426-rankings-of-world-telecom-equipment-makers.html"},"modified":"2006-04-03T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T16:13:56","slug":"rankings-of-world-telecom-equipment-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548426-rankings-of-world-telecom-equipment-makers.html","title":{"rendered":"Rankings of world telecom equipment makers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here follows a list of the leading companies in the sector on the basis of sales in 2004 or 2005 as listed by the institute IDATE.<\/font> <\/p>\n

IDATE says that the alliance between Alcatel and Lucent would create an entity ranking second in the world, just behind US giant Cisco Systems in terms of sales. <\/font><\/p>\n

The following sales figures, expressed in billions of dollars, exclude sales of fixed-line and mobile telephones. <\/font><\/p>\n

– Cisco Systems (US): sales with those of Scientific Atlanta acquired at the end of 2005: about 28.5 billion dollars
– Alcatel (France) after absorbing Lucent (US): about 25.0 billion dollars
– Ericsson (Swedfen): sales with those of Marconi (Britain) acquired at the end of 2005: about 20.8 billion dollars in 2005
– Siemens (Germany): 13.79 billion dollars in 2004
– Nortel (canada): 9.8 billion dollars in 2004
– Nokia (Finland): 7.9 billion dollars in 2004
– Motorola (US): 7.7 billion dollars in 2004
– Fujitsu (Japan): 3.69 billion dollars in 2004 <\/font><\/p>\n

IDATE says that the world market for telecommunications equipment is on a path of steady growth. Having grown sharply by 8.2 percent last year, it is expected to expand by 2.1% per year up to 2009 when the annual value of equipment purchased would be 254.3 billion dollars (211.0 billion euros). <\/font><\/p>\n

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The absorbtion of US technology equipment group Lucent by Alcatel of France, agreed yesterday, changes the rankings of world-class business in this sector which is at the heart of communications technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}