Held at Broadband World Forum 2012 (BBWF) in Amsterdam
18 October 2012, Amsterdam – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (0763.Hong Kong/000063.Shenzhen), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, along with its partner Wexnet wins Best Broadband Partnership at the Broadband InfoVision awards held at Broadband World Forum 2012 (BBWF) in Amsterdam.
Since August 2011 ZTE has worked closely with Wexnet, a Swedish broadband operator to build a network that allows end users to select their own service providers and content providers for Internet access, IP telephony, and IPTV services using ‘ICP Store’ a truly innovative service. For the first time users will be able to ‘self-organize’ their network and choose the service providers that best suit their individual needs, but at the same time have the services delivered over a single network.
‘ICP Store’ enables Wexnet to provide a better service to customers. Wexnet can now offer a range of choices to customers in ISP Services, IPTV Services and VoIP Services. According to Wexnet Technical Director Lars Wihlborg, “The ICP Store model is something we tell all of our customers about. It gives customers more choices when they connect to the equipment and we believe that this is the best way to build a metropolitan area network.”
The ‘ICP Store’ project not only saw the cooperation between ZTE and Wexnet, but also saw the cooperation between one operator and many ISP/ICPs, with many more continuing to get involved.
Innovations like ‘ICP Store’ are very important for the Internet Industry and provide a great model for the Internet service supply chain. Just like the apple App Store, ICP Store provides a quality platform for users to choose their ICP freely. Migrating to a different ICP is as simple as downloading and installing an application. Profits can be distributed more evenly and reasonably between operator and ICPs. The whole ecosystem thrives thanks to the triple-win platform.
“We believe ‘ICP Store’ is ultimately mutual-beneficial to the users, ISPs and operators, and is worth trialing in other places around Europe, and across the world,” said Ms.Jane Chen, SVP at ZTE.
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