6/21/2010, As a new all service provider, China Mobile is moving ahead her FTTx roll out quickly. FTTx network helps China Mobile earn more advantage compared her fixed line service competitors, China Telecom and China Unicom. A milestone of China Mobile's FTTx rollout is her open tender on FTTx equipments.

Not like China Telecom and China Unicom, China Mobile prefers GPON technology since day one they entered this market. In this tender, GPON became winner for another time. Also in this tender, local equipment suppliers beat their foreign competitors to win more share.

According to China Mobile's announcement on tender result, Huawei won the largest share, followed by Fiberhome. Shanghai Bell (the flag company of Alcatel Lucent in China), Erission, ZTE also entered the final list.

Fiberhome is a state-hold company located in Wuhan, China optical valley. In China's optical communication industry, Fiberhome has longer history than both Huawei and ZTE. Their PON equipments also were introduced earlier than Huawei and ZTE. But because of its state-hold background, for many years, Fiberhome's progress is not as big as their competitors. In this tender, Fiberhome got finally 20% market share, which surprised many observers.

Before the tender, China Mobile has set up their strategy which is that they will put GPON and EPON in the same line, but they prefer GPON. From the tender result, China Mobile really shows their preference on GPON, 90% of tender is given to GPON equipments.