Daily News 2004/11/15

Huawei to play a leading role in the construction of the next generation of communication network in Nigeria

　　On Nov. 8, Huawei signed a contract titled the next generation of communication technology protocol for Nigeria with the Ministry of Communications of Nigeria at the office of the president of Nigeria. president of Huawei and head of the Ministry of Communications of Nigera signed on the contract on behalf of each side. Wu Bang Guo, Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria. President) and Wabara (Senate President of national assembly) presented at the signing ceremony. The two sides reached an agreement on technical cooperation, personnel training and establishment of factory by Huawei in Nigeria.

RightNow cooperating with Aaronson Group

　　RightNow (Nasdaq: RNOW), the world leading on demand CRM company announced recently to establish partnership with Aaronson Group, a consulting company, to provide cross-channel marketing services for the customers. It will focus on the e-mail based marketing services, and will also provide other services for the communication channels to be used in the future. The new type of e-mail based marketing services will make it possible for the enterprises to use RightNow Marketing to implement the e-mail based communication strategies of Aaronson Group to optimize the e-mail channels and improve the customers.' Faithfulness.

IT expenditures to increase in October---VoIP services not favored

　　Through the investigation made in October, CIOs (Chief Information Officer) anticipated that the IT expenditures, dropping a little in September, will increase by 8.7% in the coming 12 months (it is anticipated to be 7.4%in the last month).

　　According to the results of the investigation made in October, Security Software, Data Networking and Computer Hardware are the first choice of CIOs (Chief Information Officer).

　　It is also found through the investigation that nearly half of the respondents (48.5%) have no plan for the implementation of VoIP services in the coming 12 years.

Avaya has an optical point of view on the integrated communication market.

　　Beijing-Avaya, the world-leading provider of enterprise communication software, system and services, announced its expectations in financial year 2005 and 2006 at the annual investor conference. According to Avaya, compared with the income (4.055 billion USD in financial year 2004), the income of the company in 2005 will have an increase of 25% to 27%, with the profit rate between 8.5% and 9%. The profit rate of the company in 2004 was 7.6%.

　　Such an expectation reflects Avaya's optical point of view on the integrated communication market. More and more enterprises in the world begin to use the integrated communication techniques, and market investigation institutes also say that there is a bright prospect on this market. As a market leader, Avaya has also benefited from it. At the annual conference 2004 closed on Sept. 30, it announced that the business income of the company has been increasing for consecutive 7 seasons.

　　According to Frost & Sullivan, a world famous market research company, the total income from IP voice communication market in the Asia-pacific region in 2004 will reach 420.6 million USD, an increase of 43% compared with that (294.1 million USD) in 2003.