ZTE Announces First EV-DO Revision B on CDMA2000 System

ZTE Announces First EV-DO Revision B on CDMA2000 System

     ZTE Corporation (ZTE), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, announced, on February 24, 2009, another technological breakthrough by achieving the world’s first EV-DO Revision B (Rev.B) VoIP Call on its CDMA2000 system, marking the first time in the industry that a CDMA vendor achieves an impressive 9.3 Mb/s download rate and 5.4 Mb/s upload rate. This remarkable feat once again demonstrates ZTE’s leading position in the CDMA industry.

     The company has completed the first stage of achieving EV-DO Rev.B and adopted 3-carrier bundling technology, with each carrier having a bandwidth of 1.25 MHz. Compared with mature commercial EV-DO Rev.A, what ZTE’s EV-DO Rev.B does is only upgrading EV-DO Rev.A’s software, with no additional hardware equipment required. Both ZTE’s EV-DO Rev.A and Rev.B adopt identical baseband chipset.

     ZTE plans to commercialize its EV-DO Rev.B system in Q3 2009, reaffirming its leading position in EV-DO technology development. In future, EV-DO Rev.B can bundle up to a maximum of 15 carriers, with a download rate of 73.5 Mb/s and an upload rate of 27 Mb/s. The unique features of EV-DO Rev.B include allocating flexible bandwidth and offering better QoS, hence enhancing user experience.

     There are now more than 105 million EV-DO users worldwide. To date, ZTE has established 70 EV-DO networks in more than 60 countries, including China, the United States, Czech, Poland, India and Indonesia.
ZTE has been creating waves in the global CDMA market with global CDMA subscriber capacity reaching 200 million. It ranks first in terms of global base station shipment as well as taking the number one spot in China’s CDMA sector by virtue of having one third of the domestic market share. The continuous success of ZTE in the CDMA market is attributed to a corporate policy of constantly introducing technical innovation, offering low TCO for its All-IP CDMA2000 solutions, and quick customer response.