In the end it were the Chinese vendors, Huawei and ZTE who emerged as major winners of a $ 4 billion CDMA contract floated by China Telecom with Alcatel and Lucent and Fujitsu left to be content with the remaining part of the contract.

A China Telecom company statement says both the vendors roughly bagged 40 percent each of the contract with Alcatel Lucent and Fujitsu Communication Software (FFCS) also bagging parts of the contract.

ZTE’s share of the contract involved deployment of short message centers (SMSC) in 12 provinces across the nation and Internet short message gateways (ISMG) in 10 provinces. In addition to run China Telecom''s three nationwide platforms including ISAG Router, ENUMDNS and mobile positioning system.

Huawei got orders to run the operator's business releasing center, MMS inter-working gateway, KJAVA downloading center nationwide as well as MMS inter-working gateway in 10 provinces in addition to deploying solution for SMSCs in 11 provinces and SMSGs in 15 provinces.

Alcatel-Lucent won 50% of the orders for WAP gateway, 20% of the MMS centers, and 30% of the ISMP and ISAG in 10 northern provinces.