News Brief

ZTE Launches the World’s First Commercial EV-DO Rev.B Network in Indonesia

January 18, 2010, Jakarta ― ZTE today announced that it has successfully constructed and launched the world’s first commercial EV-DO Rev.B network in Bali, Indonesia, together with Smart Telecom, one of Indonesia’s CDMA telecommunication service providers, and Qualcomm, the leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions. In the first phase, 48 CDMA base stations have been upgraded to EV-DO Rev.B commercial systems to provide an average download speed of 8.6Mbps to a peak download speed of 9.3Mbps.

The commercial network will provide Smart Telecom customers with high-quality voice and mobile data services. Through its highly innovative solutions, ZTE has provided Smart Telecom a leading edge in the telecommunication industry in Indonesia, especially among the CDMA operators. ZTE has also this month launched its EV-DO Rev.B data card AC2790 in Indonesia market. ZTE will continue to support Smart Telecom with technology innovations as well as sustainable development to reduce network construction, operation and maintenance costs and to provide local users with the highest quality, high-speed communications services.

ZTE’s SDR platform-based EV-DO Rev.B System can smoothly evolve to LTE by simply adding LTE baseband board and upgrading software. Through software advancement, ZTE’s EV-DO Rev.A can evolve easily to an EV-DO Rev.B network. In July 2009, ZTE demonstrated an EV-DO Rev.B Dual-Mode System at EXPO COMM Wireless Japan 2009.

 Smart Telecom, part of the Indonesia’s renowned consortium Sinar Mas, is one of the leading telecom operators in Indonesia market. Smart Telecom had previously utilized 3.1Mbps EV-DO Rev.A technology. The 9.3Mbps download rate of its new EV-DO Rev.B commercial network makes Smart Telecom the fastest 3G network in Indonesia.

 “EV-DO Rev.B network is now commercially available, and only in the Bali Denpasar area,” said Mr. Sutikno Widjaja, President Director of Smart Telecom. “Within Q1 2010, all existing base stations in Bali will be upgraded to EV-DO Rev.B and by the end of 2010, Rev.B is expected to be available throughout all major cities in Indonesia. To date, Smart Telecom has 32 cities covered with its previous evolution, EV-DO Rev.A which provides the most reliable wireless broadband services at  a download speed of up to 3.1Mbps.”

 “It’s an honor for ZTE to cooperate with Smart Telecom to deploy the first EV-DO Rev.B technology in Indonesia,” said Mr. Cuiyi, President of ZTE Asia Pacific Region. “I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to Smart Telecom on becoming the world’s first operator providing commercial EV-DO Rev.B services to its customers. Largely attributable to Smart Telecom’s strong track record for technology development and deployment and its reputation for high levels of service, Indonesian people are now benefiting from experiencing the most advanced EV-DO data services in the world.”

ZTE Wins Telecom Asia’s 2009 “IPTV Supplier Award”

20 January 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE announced it has won Telecom Asia’s 2009 IPTV Supplier Award, a telecom industry award honoring the leading equipment supplier of IPTV solutions. This follows ZTE’s other recent and significant IPTV industry recognition as the recipient of the “Best IPTV Equipment Award” from Frost & Sullivan.

Sponsored by authoritative industry media outlet Telecom Asia, the IPTV Supplier Award recipient is selected by over 56 industry analysts, consultants and senior industry executives worldwide. ZTE attributes its win to its advanced IPTV technology and global market leadership. To date, ZTE has won 23 commercial IPTV contracts worldwide accounting for 2.6 million IPTV subscribers.  

ZTE Joins World’s Top Three GSM Vendors

Company's GSM product shipment over 750,000 carrier frequencies in 2009

10 February 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE announced that its global GSM sales continued to grow fast in 2009, with a shipment of over 750,000 carrier frequencies in the past year. As its share in the global newly added market rose to almost 20%, ZTE is now one of the top 3 equipment vendors in the industry. In 2009, ZTE successfully sold its GSM products to world-class multinational operators such as Telenor, Teliasonera and Cell C, making large-scale advancements in European and emerging markets.

  Recently a research conducted by Frost & Sullivan shows that GSM continues to drive mobile subscriptions’ growth in major markets. Global GSM accounts for 83.5% of global mobile subscribers and this preponderant proportion has retained for a long time. Up to 2009, there were over 3.93 billion GSM, WCDMA-HSPA subscribers worldwide.

From 2004 to 2009, ZTE’s GSM product sales already maintained a growth of over 100% each year, obtaining the fastest growth in the industry. ZTE’s GSM markets are mainly distributed in over 70 countries and regions including mainland China, Hong Kong of China, South Africa, Russia, India, Indonesia and Algeria.

ZTE to Power Mass-Market Mobile TV in Brazil in Time for “Futebol” Fans to Enjoy 2010 World Cup

Brazil's largest mobile operator, Vivo, offers ZTE 3G modem card equipped with Siano Mobile TV receiver to provide first mass-market mobile TV experience in South America

25 January 2010, Brazil ― ZTE announced that together with Vivo, Brazil’s largest mobile operator, and Siano Mobile Silicon it has introduced the first 3G modem to provide mass-market mobile TV in Brazil. The device enables viewing up to 13 DTV channels comprised of sports, news and entertainment. The announcement is well timed to provide football fans with plenty of platform options to enjoy World Cup matches, including notebooks and netbooks.

The new data card was designed by ZTE based on Siano’s high performance SMS1130 multi-standard receiver chip, which supports the Brazilian Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting – Terrestrial (ISDB-T) DTV format. It provides unparalleled performance with record-breaking sensitivity levels that enable near-perfect mobile TV picture quality. The card is compatible with all standard notebooks, netbooks, and desktop PCs. 

ZTE Supports Aid Efforts into Haiti

Company dispatches communications equipment to help on the ground community support

15 January 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE announced that it has delivered solar-powered handsets and its GoTa trunking system to the Haiti government to provide much needed communication equipment for aid efforts for the victims of the earthquake that hit Haiti on January 14. The Company has confirmed that its 11 employees stationed in Haiti are safe and in a healthy condition. ZTE has contacted the employees’ families to keep them informed of the current situation.

Immediately after the disaster, ZTE established a disaster response team to work with its Haiti office to develop and provide a relief program for Haiti’s earthquake victims. The team is focused on providing expert communication infrastructure advice and is composed of ZTE’s executive vice presidents and technical experts.

With the local electricity and power infrastructure destroyed by the earthquake, priority was given to provide solar-powered handsets that could be effectively used by relief agencies on the ground. The first batch of 1500 ZTE’s GSM solar mobile phones were dispatched to Haiti from Jamaica in the morning of January 15, 2010. 

ZTE Unveils Android Plans

14 January 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE announced its joining of the Open Handset Alliance, a partnership of more than 60 global mobile industry leaders and expects to launch smartphones based on the Android platform in the first quarter of this year.

As a member of the Open Handset Alliance, ZTE will work with its members to contribute to the development of the Android platform and bring to consumers a superior user experience than much of what is available on today’s mobile platforms. By joining the Open Handset Alliance, ZTE demonstrates its support for Android as an open mobile platform and its commitment to Android’s commercial success.

Android is a complete, open mobile phone software stack. It includes everything a manufacturer or operator needs to build a mobile phone. Android is available as open source via the Apache v2 license, and it is designed from the ground up to enable the best user experience possible on a mobile phone.

ZTE Clinches USD378 Million GSM/UMTS Contract in South Africa’s Cell C

26 January 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE announced that the Company, together with its subsidiary ZTE Corporation South Africa (PTY) Limited have entered into the Network Supply Agreement and the Managed Services Agreement (the “Agreements”) with Cell C (PTY) LTD., the mobile telecom operator in South Africa, and its controlling shareholder, OGER TELECOM (SOUTH AFRICA) (PTY) Limited.

Following the Agreements, the Company will supply GSM/UMTS network turn-key solutions and operations services to Cell C (PTY) LTD. at an aggregate sum of USD378 million. The Agreements specify product sales and engineering services in relation to the daily operations. Prior to today’s announcement, the Agreements have already begun to be executed by authorized representatives from both parties. 

ZTE Breaks Ground on Xi'an R&D Base

18 January 2010, Xi’an, China ― ZTE began construction on its research, development and manufacturing base in Xi’an, Shaanxi province. ZTE currently has 5,000 research and development employees in Xi’an, and it expects to record sales of more than RMB 1 billion in 2009.

ZTE signed an agreement with the Xi’an Development Zone Management Committee in September 2008 to invest more than RMB 6 billion in the Xi’an base.