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ZTE Unveils Its FTTx Business Model for Asia-Pacific

Ranked second in worldwide broadband revenues by Ovum, ZTE Looks to expand into Asia with new broadband acceleration solution

16 June 2010, Singapore — ZTE unveiled at CommunicAsia2010 today its “Asia-Pacific FTTx Business Model,” developed specifically to accelerate broadband deployment in Asia Pacific.

According to a recent Point Topic report, countries in Asia-Pacific are seeing the fastest broadband growth, including China, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Pakistan. In addition, most countries in the region, including Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, have a broadband penetration of less than 10%. A 2009 Ovum report presented a huge need for broadband infrastructure development in these countries.

ZTE’s Asia-Pacific FTTx Business Mode leverages the company’s extensive knowledge and experience in constructing and deploying broadband networks, both in Asia and worldwide. The plan, aimed at driving Asian-Pacific broadband development and deployment into an “accelerated fast lane,” focuses on three aspects: planning, operation, and environmental protection:

■    Planning: The model strengthens the terminal-pipe-cloud network architecture, promotes the coordinated development of fixed-line broadband and 3G networks, and extends the value of a broadband network to the two sides of service clouds and intelligent home networks.

■    Operation: The primary operation model involves service cloud and management mechanisms; methods of terminating and marketing home network services; high-bandwidth, fast, flexible end-to-end configuration, offline diagnostics, end-to-end management, fast fault location, a three-dimensional terminal network, and many more.

■    Green networks: The new model accommodates IPv6 evolution, next-generation PON, energy saving measures and emissions reduction.

ZTE developed its Asia-Pacific broadband acceleration plan based in part on its work with Telecom Malaysia and China Telecom and other operators in the region. Top-of-mind concerns for all operators are the development and deployment of efficient and cost-effective networks that are designed with upgradeable paths.

 “An efficient broadband infrastructure is critical for any country that wants to effectively compete in today’s global economy,” said Mr. Xu Ming, ZTE Vice President. “We have been working diligently to devise a broadband deployment model that will help Asia countries to rapidly develop and deploy state-of-the-art broadband networks, and look forward to helping more operators move with their expansion plans.”

According to Ovum’s latest research, ZTE ranked second in the world in terms of market access with a 16.5% share in global revenues of 2009. The research agency also placed ZTE second for overall sales of broadband access (DSL, MSAN in the broadband part, FTTx, as well as CMTS) in 2009.

ZTE Launched an All-Round Security Solution to 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

22 June 2010, Shenzhen, China — ZTE has convened the “World Cup Communication Security Meeting” with Cell C, the mobile operator in South Africa, to ensure the stability and security of communications during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

The meeting addresses the real-time challenges of maintaining the extensive and complicated communications network for the global sporting event, including wireless voice services, data services, transmission and other communications and security services which are provided by ZTE. For 28 of the most important matches, ZTE also deployed its leading SDR solutions to provide services and coverage to the four major cities in South Africa where the World Cup matches are being hosted, namely Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein and Elizabeth.

The SDR solution ensures the communications stability and security of the World Cup stadium, fans parks, airport, major hotels and other major entertainment areas. In addition, ZTE holds the exclusive right to deploy the national mobile bearer network of Cell C to offer the World Cup committees, players, staff and fans a mobile network with high-bandwidth and stability.

ZTE and CSL Win Global Telecoms Business LTE Infrastructure Innovation Award

Award recognizes ZTE’s cutting-edge LTE commercial trial with Telstra Hong Kong subsidiary CSL

8 June 2010, Shenzhen, China — ZTE and CSL, a Telstra subsidiary and Hong Kong’s leading mobile network operator, have been awarded the LTE Infrastructure Innovation award as part of the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards 2010. The awards are selected and awarded by Global Telecoms Business magazine and recognize the major corporations and innovations that have helped shape the telecoms industry over the last 12 months.

CSL’s Next G network, built by ZTE, was the world’s first HSPA+ network based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology. The carrier launched a commercial trial of LTE in November 2009, and already has 40 cell sites where LTE is operational.

ZTE and Vodafone Win Global Telecom Business Pay as You Go Innovation Award

World’s first “Balance Indicator” feature proves a winner among Vodafone customers in Germany

8 June 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE and Vodafone have won the Pay as you Go Innovation Award at the 2010 Global Telecoms Business Awards for the Balance Indicator function in the VDF236 handset, a unique feature that was designed and customized for Vodafone Germany. The Balance Indicator (BI) is an intelligent feature that displays real-time balance information of the user’s minutes/services after every top-up, and after each call or SMS.

ZTE is the first handset manufacturer in the world to offer the BI function, and it has proved to be a popular and highly-rated feature with Vodafone Germany customers. It enables the display of remaining balances in red, yellow and green, and is a much more useful way of keeping users in touch with their balances than SMS alerts. When Vodafone users run low on minutes, they are guided through the recharging and payment process via their mobile screens.

ZTE Partners with Public Mobile to Build CDMA Network in Canada

ZTE to build and operate end-to-end network solution

2 June 2010, Shenzhen, China — ZTE and Canadian operator Public Mobile today announced their collaboration to build a commercial CDMA network in Canada. The network is designed to provide mobile service to 19 million potential customers across the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

 ZTE has partnered with Public Mobile to design, build and operate the end-to-end CDMA network including wireless, core network, service platforms and IP architecture. ZTE is also supplying Public Mobile with handsets.

As part of the agreement, ZTE is deploying over 1,000 base stations for the network, as well as the industry’s first 5+5MHz-based customized solution for Personalized Communications Systems (PCS) to provide extended G block frequency band on CDMA system equipment and terminals.

ZTE Launches the World's First Integrated High Definition Videoconferencing Terminal

9 June 2010, Las Vegas, NV — ZTE announced today at InfoComm International its first integrated HD videoconferencing terminal, the ZXV10 T700. To meet the growing demand in audio visual communications technology, ZTE’s T700 solution makes HD video conferencing more accessible to businesses as it reduces the deployment cost of operators and agents. With minimum requirements including network, power and HDMI cables, the T700 is an easy installation solution that allows users to set up a professional videoconference for small to medium sized meetings through a simple IP process.

The integrated HD videoconferencing terminal design is embedded with a 10×zoom HD camera NVS-V90 that removes wiring complexity, supports IPv4 and IPv6, multiple

3G wireless access options, dual HD 720p active video for enhanced video communication, and 720p video and broadband audio delivering excellent video and audio quality.

ZTE Partners with Telekom Malaysia to Roll Out High Speed Broadband Network

New infrastructure will broadly increase Malaysia’s broadband penetration rate

16 June 2010, Singapore — ZTE today announced at CommunicAsia in Singapore that it has got great progress in collaborating with Telekom Malaysia to participate as one of the major suppliers to construct a national High Speed Broadband (HSBB) network in Malaysia. The HSBB network has been planned to provide nationwide high-speed broadband access to offer unparalleled broadband user experience across various areas in Malaysia.

The HSBB network is a nationwide communications initiative spearheaded by the Malaysian government with the aim of turning Malaysia into a broadband rich nation. The objective is to increase broadband home penetration rate to 50% from the current 35% by the end of 2010. Under the contract, ZTE will provide Telekom Malaysia with Multi-Service Access Nodes (MSAN) as part of Phase One of the HSBB network development.

ZTE Clinches Exclusive CDMA Supply Contract with Indonesia's Smart Telecom

Network infrastructure project to cover the whole of Indonesia with over 25 million lines

28 June 2010, Shenzhen, China — ZTE today announced that it has signed an exclusive contract with Smart Telecom, one of Indonesia’s largest CDMA operators, to supply key network infrastructure equipment for the operator to deploy a country-wide network framework. This marks a deepening of the relationship between both companies following their strategic collaboration to build the world’s first commercial EV-DO Rev.B network in Bali on January 10, 2010.

Under the agreement, ZTE will deliver approximately 6,000 base stations to Smart Telecom to cover the whole of Indonesia, with a total system capacity of over 25 million lines. The infrastructure project includes the deployment of ZTE’s wireless solutions, transmission and core network products, business platform systems, power supplies and other equipment.