The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (8) that market research firm Dell’Oro Group has revealed that huawei is slowly losing market share to European rivals in the mobile communications equipment market outside of China. This shows that the U.S. blockade against Huawei has not only in the field of cell phones, even telecommunications equipment also began to be impacted.
Data show that Huawei’s global (excluding China) wireless equipment market revenue last year fell 2 percentage points to 20%, ranking third, behind Ericsson (Ericsson), Nokia (Nokia). The latter two companies increased their market share last year, with Ericsson’s market share outside China rising 2 percentage points to about 35 percent, extending its lead; Nokia’s market share grew 1 percentage point to about 25 percent.
Late last year, Huawei fell from its position as the world’s largest smartphone maker and slipped all the way to fifth place due to pressure from the United States. Counterpoint Research’s China cell phone sales ranking in January this year also showed that OPPO and vivo have overtaken the car, with a market share of 21% and 20% respectively to squeeze Huawei ranked first and second. Huawei fell to third place alongside Apple and Xiaomi.
At this stage to Dell’Oro Group survey shows that Huawei’s other major core business – wireless communication network equipment has also been impacted.
Dell’Oro Group said, if including China sales, Huawei is still the world’s largest supplier of wireless communications equipment, global market share in the last year there has been growth, currently occupying about one-third of global wireless equipment sales. And China last year overtook North America to become the world’s largest market for wireless communications equipment industry.
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