India and USA add to Huawei’s woes, but China’s giant 5G spend buoys revenue The pattern is becoming a familiar one – as more pressure is piled onto Chinese vendors in US-aligned markets, the more their western rivals are facing exclusion from China’s own 5G roll-out, the biggest on the planet by some long way. Although there has been no move to bar Ericsson and Nokia from Chinese 5G contracts, in the latest round of 5G awards, Nokia gained no deals in the RAN (though it is supplying some core network elements to China Unicom), while Ericsson’s share was lower, compared to Huawei’s and ZTE’s, than in the 4G era. The numbers of base stations at stake are huge. According…