(Yicai Global) June 12 -- Huawei Technologies has gained over half of the procurement of China's largest fifth-generation wireless base station tender this year organized by China Mobile.

The telecoms giant scored over 50 percent of the total of the major mobile network operator's centralized procurement program in 2023, The Paper reported today.

The upcoming projects involve different frequency bands. The bands of 2.6 to 4.9 gigahertz will have around 63,800 stations, divided into two projects. And the 700 megahertz band will be enriched with about 23,100 stations, divided into three projects.

ZTE was the second-biggest winner in the bidding, followed by others, including Datang Mobile Communications Equipment, Ericsson, and Nokia Shanghai Bell.

This is not the first purchasing program that Beijing-based China Mobile has launched this year as the wireless carrier has sought to buy equipment such as urban and rural base station antennas and cables with price ceilings going as high as CNY7.6 billion (USD1.1 billion).

This year, China Mobile expects to splurge CNY183.2 billion (USD25.6 billion) on capital expenditures, slightly down from the past two years. However, the targets will be different. The firm will spend CNY83 billion (USD11.6 billion) on 5G networks, which is more than 10 percent less than in 2022. Money spent on computing power is expected to increase by 35 percent to CNY45.2 billion.

China Mobile plans to operate more than 1.6 million 5G base stations this year, with 360,000 new additions. It aims to increase its number of cloud servers by more than 240,000 units and add 40,000 external data center racks.

Editor: Emmi Laine