Question-and-Answer Session
Phil Armstrong:
Operator, I just want to remind people that during the Q&A, please limit your questions to one topic and if you need to ask several followups, step back into the queue. With that, operator, we'll open it up for questions.
Operator
(Operator's Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of Amir Rozwadowski with Barclays Capital.
Amir Rozwadowski - Barclays Capital
Thank you very much and good morning, gentlemen. In looking at sort of your fourth quarter guidance for sequential growth, certainly it seems as though there's some level of indications coming form the marketplace that in the area of wireless we should see a pickup in business. I was wondering if you can give us a little bit of color in terms of perhaps geographically what you're seeing (inaudible), and if we look at sort of the larger wireless OEMs, certainly their businesses are expected to be down sort of in the single digit sequentially and there seems to be a disconnect with how much your business has been down thus far this year. And so, should we expect some level of catch up spending in terms of your businesses sort of catching up to where the market trends have been? Thank you very much.
Brian D. Garre
Amir, I don't know if catch up is the right word. I will say that particularly in the wireless space, the third quarter represented a low for us from a sequential quarterly basis throughout the year. We are seeing strength in both India and China for a variety of reasons, both with the carriers and with the OEMs, and in North America I think you know well there are a number of carriers who are projecting a stronger fourth quarter in terms of capital spending which we agree with and anticipate participating in.
If we looked at the course of activity over the third quarter, we did see strengthening in revenues and margins in the September period versus the average for the quarter. So we think we've got momentum going into the fourth quarter reflected in the guidance that we've given in revenue.
Amir Rozwadowski - Barclays Capital
Great. Thank you very much for the color.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Ken Muth with Robert Baird.
Ken Muth - Robert Baird
Hi. Could you just give a sense on the bonuses that you did not pay this year? Will you be paying those next year and can you give us kind of a rough range of what that is so we can get our numbers more accurate.
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