Athens is to host some of the world´s leading telecommunications technology as ZTE Corporation, China´s largest telecommunications manufacturer and wireless solutions provider, visits Greece next week during its first pan-European roadshow.

Visitors to the Politia tennis club between March 30 and April 1 will be able to see first-hand ZTE´s advanced wireless technology and solutions for the 3G era, including the Corporation´s industry-leading UMTS V3 system, next generation networks and a wide range of 3G services.

“Greece is geographically, economically and politically important to ZTE and we have already had considerable success here,” said Guo Jun, General Manger of ZTE Eastern Europe.  “We believe that there is a huge market demand in Greece for broadband, 3G and next generation networks (NGN): our roadshow will demonstrate to local customers ZTE´s outstanding capability in these fields.”

Last year, ZTE supplied a DSL network to serve the Olympic Games, which performed throughout the Games with no problems or downtime.  Under the contract, ZTE helped OTE to deploy an ADSL system serving 16 points in Athens.  Since then, ZTE announced that it was to extend its network into the rest of Athens as part of a contract with OTE.

“Our strategy in Europe is totally focussed on localisation: we will work more closely with local partners, recruit more local employees and set up regional centres for maintenance and R&D,” added Guo Jun. “ Greece will be an ideal place for us to support our customers in Balcon region. We have doubled the number of employees at our Greece office in the last 2 months and are planning to establish a technical support centre in the country by June this year.”
 
The roadshow will visit ten countries over the next three months, including Turkey, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, France, Spain and Portugal. 

ZTE has established 14 offices in Europe and has made significant steps into the European market already in 2005:  earlier this month ZTE announced that it is to become a global supplier of ADSL equipment to France Telecom; in February, ZTE announced an agreement with Alcatel that will see ZTE´s CDMA radio access portfolio integrated into Alcatel´s CDMA end-to-end solutions; in January, ZTE signed a research and development Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Portugal Telecom and won a contract to supply Skylink, Russia´s largest CDMA operator, with an advanced CDMA network for Murmansk.

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For further information please contact Helen Lyman Smith or Brian Dolby on +44 (0)115 950 8399 or email helen@gbcspr.com or brian@gbcspr.com.  Alternatively, please contact Rena Qin on 86-755-26770227 or email qin.yina@zte.com.cn.

For more information about the roadshow please visit http://www.zte.com.cn/Events/EuropeanRoadshow2005.

About ZTE: ZTE Corporation is China´s largest listed telecommunications equipment manufacturer and wireless solutions provider specialising in offering customised network solutions for telecom carriers worldwide. The company develops and manufactures telecommunications equipment for fixed, mobile, data and optical networks, intelligent networks and next generation networks as well as mobile phones.  For more information please visit www.zte.com.cn.