Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Mike Walkley - Piper Jaffray.
Charles John - Piper Jaffray
This is Charles sitting in for Mike Walkley. Thanks for taking my questions. Just a few from me; obviously a top macro out there, but China seems to be the bright spot. So it would be helpful if you could just comment on maybe how will you think your position’s within China and what the competitive landscape looks like for you in terms of pricing and maybe just the level of visibility you have there in general?
Ron Buschur
Okay. Certainly the APAC region has been very strong. China especially, where China Unicom and China Mobile has been good for Powerwave this previous and we see good trends, looking forward in that region and we are seeing some healthy signs in other parts of the continent as well looking over towards the Middle East.
So, visibility I won’t say is great at this point, but it is improving and looking at the pricing economic environment, we don’t see anything that’s out of the ordinary as far as pricing pressure or any concerns around the pricing. It’s still a very competitive marketplace, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Charles John - Piper Jaffray
Any thoughts just on the share gains relative to some of the encumbered Chinese players like the Combos or the [Grandecks] or may some of the regional guys who have close relationships with Huawei and ZTE?
Ron Buschur
Well obviously from Powerwave’s perspective, as you know our strategy is to have a dual sourcing strategy direct with the operator as well as having our products pull through the OEMs. So, we’re very pleased to have increased sales with the direct operators there in China, so that’s a real advantage and we want to continue to focus on that.
As far as market share, it’s difficult to tell what the market shares are of some of those Asian suppliers, because one, they’re not public and two, they typically don’t break out their customer base on a present basis, given on our product segment like we would do, or some of our competitors would do. So, it’s a little more difficult, but we certainly think that we’ve been able to pick up and gain a little bit of market share in that region.
Charles John - Piper Jaffray
Just looking at some of the trends in the EMEA region, maybe if you could share what you’re expectations are from carriers in this region and you’ve talked about capital constraints, I think you had alluded to that a few quarters ago. Has that played out entirely or are you still some of its impacts on order trends from some of your customers there?
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