News Brief

ZTE Base Station Market Shares Climb to World’s Top 4 Position

Company achieves a global market share of 12.6% in 2009

15 April 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE revealed that Infonetics, a leading market research firm, has recently released a 2G/3G Mobile Infrastructure and Subscribers Report on the global wireless communication equipment market in 2009. According to the report, major changes have occurred in the shares of the global wireless communication market. By carrier frequency, ZTE achieved a market share of 12.6%, overtaking Alcatel-Lucent to become the fourth largest firm in the industry. By sales revenues, ZTE saw its macro base stations claiming 9.1% of the global wireless market in 2009 Q4, also placing ZTE in fourth place.

Infonetics’ report shows the effects from the financial crisis in the form of the global wireless equipment RAN market falling 9.2% in 2009, down to US$38.6 billion from US$42.5 billion in 2008. By system, WCDMA RAN market overtook GSM market for the first time, achieving a market share of 41%, GSM saw its share of the overall wireless market down to 36%, while CDMA at 16% and TD-CDMA 7%. Infonetics anticipates that by 2014, LTE will account for 22% of the global RAN market, while GSM and WCDMA will reach 30% and 42%, respectively.

In 2009, 325,000 Base Transceiver Station (BTS) units were deployed in China, accounting for some 1/3 of the total base stations deployed worldwide (not including Remote Radio Head). This is the largest 3G deployment in the world to date. Infonetics also forecasts that after 2010, Asia Pacific will maintain its global market share above 40%. Populous countries such as India, Indonesia and Vietnam will deploy wireless broadband base stations, and the global wireless market will achieve single-digit growth over 2009.

ZTE has been adopting green and cost-saving technology strategies to help protect the earth and the investments of operators. The company has collaborated with China Unicom to successfully deploy a green 3G network that utilizes environment-friendly, energy saving commercial base station equipment. ZTE’s green 3G base station site relies on wind and solar energy for operation. Compared with similar base stations, this green solution reaches 100% energy-saving capabilities. Its remote control feature requires no on-site manpower support and, thus helps China Unicom save costs to further lower its TCO.

ZTE’s global GSM sales continued to grow swiftly in 2009, with shipments 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.

ZTE Records 60 Million Wireless Terminal Shipments, Representing over 33% Growth over 2008

40 million handsets and 20 million data cards shipped

7 April 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE experienced impressive growth in 2009 in its wireless terminals space. According to iSuppli, ZTE shipped 60 million wireless terminals including more than 40 million handsets and 20 million data cards in 2009. More than 70% of all ZTE shipments in 2009 were to international markets, in line with the company’s aggressive global growth strategy.

In wireless terminals, ZTE’s shipment of 60.17 million units represented a 33% growth over 2008. In 2009, ZTE began to break into the three major high-end markets including Europe, North America and Japan, partnering with the top global operators in the wireless terminal area, including VDF, T-Mobile, Verizon, Telefonica, Orange, H3G, Telenor, TIM and Sprint. The sale of products ranged from high-end and innovative, personalized products to value priced products.

ZTE Sells World’s Fastest HSPA+ 28.8M Data Card with Greece’s COSMOTE

19 April 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE announced today it has started selling world’s fastest HSPA+28.8M data card with COSMOTE in Greece, moving the industry forward with record speeds for mobile broadband services by using advanced HSPA+MIMO technology.

COSMOTE became the first company in Greece to offer 28.8Mbps with its “COSMOTE Internet on the Go” data transfer package―the country’s most popular mobile broadband offering. The new speeds are available through the updated ZTE MF662 data card, which is offered for free through select “COSMOTE Internet on the Go” plans.

By deploying advanced HSPA+MIMO technology with the MF662, COSMOTE’s customers can enjoy up to 28.8Mbps download speed and 5.8Mbps upload speed for easy access to the Internet, wherever and whenever they want. Users can enjoy rich content and online applications, including video content, and high transmission of large files including photographs, data files, music, and more.

ZTE and Vivo Unveil World’s First Low-Cost Handset with Digital TV in Brazil

21 April 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — ZTE today announced the Brazilian launch of the new handset N290, a low-cost cell phone with digital TV in Brazil.

Available exclusively through Vivo, the mobile phone will be available in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo from this week, priced at BRL 399 for the pre-paid version and BRL 199 for the post-paid plan. It will be available in other Brazilian cities in coming weeks where Digital TV signals are just available.

The ZTE N290 incorporates an MF645 3G modem for Digital TV reception, and supports Vivo’s strategy to bring mobile Digital TV to its customers in time for the World Cup in South Africa in June.

With a 3.2 inch widescreen, the handset works with the Brazilian TV digital system ISBD-T which allows the access to all digital open channels at no cost. The new handset also features a 2.0 MP camera and supports a Maxim 8G TF card.

ZTE Hosts IEEE 10G-EPON Interoperability Showcase

Industry’s first commercial demonstration of symmetric 10G PON technology in a multi-vendor, interoperable environment

22 April 2010, Shanghai, China ― Interoperability of symmetric 10G-EPON products was demonstrated successfully in Shanghai, China during a showcase hosted by ZTE. The showcase was open to participants of the IEEE 1904.1 Working Group meeting in Shanghai.

Interoperability among products was successfully demonstrated by four vendors: Broadcom, PMC-Sierra, Opulan and ZTE. Each vendor supplied an OLT and a variety of ONUs (supporting both 1G-EPON and symmetric 10G-EPON), connected in a multi-vendor configuration to demonstrate complete interoperability.

System performance was examined for a number of realistic and challenging test configurations that reflected the specific requirements of major service providers. These tests included physical-layer connectivity, MAC-layer connectivity, MPCP discovery, dynamic bandwidth allocation, service setup, security and authentication, and connection management.

ZTE to Build IMS Core Network for China Mobile

26 April 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE announced it has been chosen by China Mobile to deliver its IMS core network in key Chinese provinces. The China Mobile’s commercial IMS network will boast 1.4 million lines when it is completed in three months. According to the comprehensive evaluation process by China Mobile, ZTE was ranked among the tier one IMS supplier group for the project this time.

Based on ZTE’s full package of IMS core network products, the network will enable China Mobile to quickly launch the various fixed/mobile convergence services such as Converged Centrex, Converged One Number, Multimedia CRBT and Converged Conferencing, further enhancing the user experience.

ZTE Supports Aid Efforts into Quake-Hit Zones

16 April 2010, Shenzhen, China ― A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Yushu County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China’s Qinghai Province on April 14, 2010. The communication equipments there have been seriously affected.

Immediately after the earthquake, ZTE established a disaster relief team for providing aid efforts for the quake-hit zones. The first batch of technical experts arrived at the quake-hit zones on April 14, assisting each operator in solving the problems on the telecommunication equipments.

At the same time, ZTE has urgently reorganized the spare part inventory all over the country, and the Logistics Department and Network Service Center have worked out emergency plans and determined emergency receivers for providing overall supporting for the front, guaranteeing the timely arrival of the spare parts required for the network maintenance and supporting the telecommunication recovery of the quake-hit zones.

ZTE Partners with CMCC for Ground-Breaking TD-LTE Indoor MIMO Networking Performance Test

29 March 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE announced that, together with China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC), it has successfully completed a TD-LTE indoor MIMO networking performance test in Beijing - producing the world’s first batch of TD-LTE performance evaluation data on indoor single/dual path cell throughput. The testing also produced data for indoor multi-UE circumstances.

The test evaluated the construction solution of indoor distribution systems, including whether a two-path system can achieve significant better performance than a single path system under different scenarios and user distributions. Organized by CMCC, ZTE based its results on comparative tests under several different scenarios. The testing found that, under diversified testing circumstances, a TD-LTE two-path indoor distribution system downlink throughput does show dramatic improvements compared with single path indoor distribution system. The data is valuable for the industry for TD-LTE networking construction and efficiency.