Tommy Uitto7:08
Yeah, thank you, Frederik. Good question. Let's first look at the starting point. Actually, we had never made a decision that we would not participate in 5G radio access in China. In fact, we did participate and we did win some market share in 5G with China Mobile and then the joint venture of China Telecom, even if of course much smaller market share than what we have had in 4G. So we have supplied our 2.5 GHz 5G to China Mobile and 3.5 GHz to CTC/CUC, both in macro and small cells including some important cities like Shanghai. But at the time of the central purchasing rounds, the first ones, we were still in the middle of the product turnaround, and we didn't really have fully competitive product for the Chinese customers' needs, especially in the art of bandwidth. And when you don't score well in the technical evaluation in China, then you have to give very significant discounts to secure share, which is why we decided to take very little share at the time. But that was back then.
Let's talk about today and the future. We are participating in the next central purchasing rounds of 5G in China with China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, as well as China Broadcast Network, or CBN. Because like I said, China is a big market, there are important innovations there. Our product is more competitive after the last two years of turnaround and continues to improve through this year. Picking an example, the 700 MHz 5G product offered to CBN has actually to a good extent been developed by our R&D in Hangzhou and Nanjing. We are the first supplier who has completed the tests in 26 GHz millimeter wave with MIIT, the ministry. So we are trying to increase our share there. But this said, it is of course challenging to increase share in the latter central purchasing rounds when most of the market share has been awarded in the first central purchasing rounds. I hope I was able to add color and answer your question properly.