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COPYRIGHT 2004 Crain Communications, Inc.
Byline: SAM OMATSEYE
Network equipment divisions performed better for major wireless vendors in the third quarter than their handset businesses did. At Nokia Corp., handset sales figures still topped equipment sales, but infrastructure revenue was on the rise while handset sales declined.
Industry experts attribute this turnabout to a revival in infrastructure spending and a decline in handset margins.
"Service providers in Japan and Western Europe enhanced their W-CDMA network capacity in 3Q '04 in anticipation of increased consumer demand at the end of the year,'' said Greg Collins, senior director of mobile infrastructure research at Dell'Oro Group.
The research group reported sales of mobility infrastructure equipment jumped $155 million, or 2 percent, in the quarter....
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