News Brief

ZTE India Announces the Expansion of India Engineering Centre

Delivering on the promise of continued commitment to the India market

12 May 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE today announced its India subsidiary will expand a new Indian Engineering Centre (IEC) office in Delhi to meet the increasing demand for engineering services in the India market. In 2009, the company increased its Indian headcount by more than 1000 employees nationwide, only in Delhi almost 100 employees were recruited and trained during this period. To accommodate this rapid rise in the number of employees of IEC, ZTE India has invested in this new facility and will move all its employees to the new facility so it can better respond to customers’ needs.

This expansion follows close on the heels of the establishment of the National Network Operation Center (NNOC) announced by ZTE India last year to showcase its long-term development and localization strategy. The new IEC office will be the primary hub for ZTE India’s after-sale engineering team, which includes managed-services, network establishment, and maintenance of the network for operators. ZTE India has a local management team led by Chairman and Managing Director, Dr. D.K. Ghosh and other substantial positions. Currently, ZTE India employs over 90% local Indian staff.

To coincide with the opening of the IEC in Delhi, the expansion of the Bangalore is also expected to be completed, which will provide training services to 2000 ZTE India local staff as well as 3000 local outsourcing partners. The move will facilitate a timely knowledge transfer of the latest telecom and engineering technology to the local telecom professionals in India.

Dr. Ghosh explained, “As India is a strategic market, ZTE has provided more than 7000 job opportunities within the company and its partners. ZTE will continue to invest in technology and engineering to make sure we support the development of the telecom sector in every way possible, especially with 3G just around-the-corner.”

ZTE has been in India for 10 years, and has become one of the major players in the market. It works in cooperation with all operators in India. It is also expanding the business in high-level markets like Europe and the US, providing products to top operators.

Based on its stellar performance in and out of India, the company expressed its view on the security issues: “ZTE, as the listed company in both Shenzhen and Hong Kong, has maintained a transparent approach to management since very beginning. ZTE fully understands and respects the security concern of India government and unconditional adhere to the policies and relative requirements of India government. ZTE’s products have been widely used by all the high-level operators in America, Europe and India as well and have consistently met all strict requirements of product quality and security. We sincerely hope the India government will soon issue clear regulations for a security test. Once the regulations are put in place, ZTE will proactively work with the relevant authorities to follow all the procedures of the test, and we are confident of clearing all required parameters. And in the interim period, we hope to receive the same equal treatment that other manufacturers can expect in India,” added Dr. Ghosh.

ZTE Announces Successful 10G EPON Testing in U.S. Market

ZTE Readies 10G EPON platform for U.S. market to enable MSOs to deliver greater value added services for customers

12 May 2010, the Cable Show, Los Angeles, CA ― ZTE USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ZTE Corporation, today announced the successful completion of field tests for its 10G EPON solution with a leading U.S. Multiple System Operator (MSO). ZTE’s highly integrated network equipment enables MSOs to compete with the telecom operators in the overlay market, maximizing revenues on new services, future-proofing existing networks, and delivering savings on routine maintenance, operational costs and other additional capital expenditures.

In order to meet growing demand to support services that require much higher bandwidth such as 3DTV, virtual meetings and new cloud computing based applications, MSOs will be required to upgrade their infrastructure to next-generation access network equipment. The successful testing of ZTE’s 10G EPON solution sets the stage for MSOs to deliver services to business users that require a 1Gbps speed connection as well as home users that require a 100Mbps speed connection. The test used the ZXA10 C300 Optical Line Terminal (OLT) in a central office and leveraged a customer’s Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) which were made up of 10G EPON and EPON ONTs. The results demonstrated that the 10G EPON solution was able to deliver 10G and 1G over the same fibre and Optical Distribution Network (ODN) and more importantly, that MSOs could provide 10G and 1G on the same PON platform.

ZTE and Innofidei Achieve Industry’s First Field IOT on Multiple TD-LTE USB Dongles in a Mobile Network Cell

11 May 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE today announced ZTE and Innofidei have jointly delivered a significant breakthrough for the TD-LTE industry with the industry’s first successful Inter-Operability Test (IOT) of multiple TD-LTE USB dongles in a single mobile network cell. The successful test was first performed in Hong Kong, and subsequently in Shanghai during the opening days of Shanghai World Expo. Using the ZTE TD-LTE Shanghai field network, a number of TD-LTE USB dongles provided by Innofidei accessed the field TD-LTE cell simultaneously to provide a number of diversified services including streaming and FTP services, among others.

 Mr. Zhao Xianming, ZTE SVP, said, “This is the first time in the TD-LTE industry that a multiple USB dongle field IOT test has been successful, and this achievement will greatly accelerate the industrialization of TD-LTE. It demonstrates that ZTE and Innofidei are moving steadily towards the development of a comprehensive commercialized application of TD-LTE.”

ZTE has been leading the TDD industry through strong innovation and product development capability, and continues to invest in the industry to maintain this lead. ZTE is the first Chinese telecoms equipment provider to pass TD-LTE indoor phase I test, field test and indoor phase II test organized by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and China Mobile. ZTE has deployed five commercial LTE networks to date, and more than 40 trial LTE networks with operators throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.

ZTE is playing an active role in the Shanghai World Expo TD-LTE demo network in cooperation with China Mobile. ZTE TD-LTE sites have been deployed in the News Center, providing high-speed wireless data services for journalists.

ZTE and SoftBank Launch Customized Handset for Elderly and Remote Monitoring Terminals in Japan

20 May 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE and Japanese telecommunication and media Corporation, SoftBank have announced the joint launch of SoftBank-840Z―a specially customized 3G handset for senior citizens in Japan.

The handset was launched at the SoftBank Summer Terminal Conference held in Tokyo, Japan, with a showcase of SoftBank-840Z handsets and remote monitoring terminals from ZTE. It marks the first time cooperation between ZTE and SoftBank, and will be the first ZTE handset launched in Japan.

The handset product is specially customized for Japan’s aging population, according to Japanese user interface style customized for SoftBank and will be available in Japan by August this year.

The conference also showcased ZTE’s Z001 and Z002, remote monitoring devices using UMTS 2100MHz networks. The terminals can be used for security monitoring for indoor users, with 0.3Mp camera with infrared night vision and motion detection. Users can view video of their chosen location via their mobile phones, keeping an eye on the pet and the baby, the shop or their small office from wherever they are.

ZTE Continues Its Ambitious Strategy for the French Mobile Phone Market by Launching Two Handsets Under Its Own Brand with Bouygues Télécom

6 May 2010, France ― ZTE today presented two new mobile phones, ZTE Link and ZTE Cute sold by the operator Bouygues Télécom.

The ZTE Link is the first ZTE smartphone based on the Android platform to be sold in France. The touchscreen EDGE and 3G+ handset offers an ergonomic design and is equipped with a 3.2 million pixel camera, GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth.

The ZTE Cute is a compact EDGE touchscreen handset with an attractive design. Numerous widgets can be displayed on its 2.8 inch, 16/9 screen. It offers a two megapixels camera, Bluetooth, and a MicroSD card slot that allows up to 8GB of extra memory in additional to an internal memory of 34MB. It supports Java applications enabling the display of many video and audio formats, and an FM radio.

ZTE Completes the World's First TD-LTE S1/X2 Interface Conformity Test

1 June 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE and China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MII) today announced they have completed the world’s first S1/X2 Interface Conformity test, an important development under MII’s initiatives for the deployment of TD-LTE.

 ZTE was invited by MII to conduct the trial in advance of mass-scale system tests due to the company’s leading position and rich experience in TD-LTE. The test was a success and passed all requirements set forth by MII for the S1/X2 Interface Conformity Test, making ZTE the first in the world to successfully complete the related trials.

Within LTE network infrastructure, the S1 interface is the communications interface between LTE eNB and EPC, while the X2 interfaces between eNB and eNB. The success of the S1/X2 Interface Conformity test validates that ZTE’s TD-LTE system including its wireless and core network fully comply with 3GPP standards, and has laid down a solid foundation for the test of S1/X2 IOT.

ZTE has taken the lead in the TD-LTE development and has attained significant achievements in the industry. To date, ZTE has deployed five commercial LTE networks and built 40 LTE trial networks for leading telecom operators in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and MEA.