22 July 2009, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that it has launched an industry-first LTE and EV-DO Rev.B Dual-Mode System at the opening of EXPO COMM Wireless Japan 2009, the only exhibition in Japan that specializes in Wireless/Mobile network technologies, services and solutions.

During EXPO COMM, and in line with its corporate theme “Talking to the Future,” ZTE will showcase a series of innovative technologies and products, including the world’s first LTE and EV-DO Rev.B Dual-Mode System developed based on ZTE’s Software Defined Radio (SDR) soft base station platform, which has been widely adopted for commercial use in the global market. The dual-mode system demo will covera series of advanced applications, including high -speed data services such as HD streaming media, FTP download and interactive games.

ZTE’s SDR platform-based EV-DO Rev.B System can smoothly evolve to LTE by simply adding LTE baseband board and upgrading software. Through software advancement, ZTE’s EV-DO Rev.A can evolve to EV-DO Rev.B network which is backward compatible with EV-DO Rev.A users’ access.

The system demo will adopt Phase I technology: the EV-DO Rev.B’s 3-carrier bundling to realize 9.3Mbps download rate. With its flexible multi-carrier bundling technology, EV-DO Rev.B can bundle up to 15 carriers in Phase II, with a download (forward) rate of 73.5Mbps and an upload (reverse) rate of 27Mbps. Compared with HSPA+ and other technologies, it has achieved certain speed advantages.

According to industry analysis, the financial crisis has provided opportunity to the further development of EV-DO Rev.B, and it is widely recognized that year 2012 will be the best opportunity timeframe for large-scale of LTE deployment. ZTE is the pioneer in the EV-DO Rev.B and LTE areas. In May 2009, it helped WANA, a CDMA operator in Morocco, to successfully complete the world’s first EV-DO Rev.B trial on a commercial network. Currently, ZTE is also carrying out EV-DO Rev.B tests in China’s CDMA market. After ZTE’s launch of itsEV-DO Rev.B system several months ago, a number of CDMA vendors followed suit to introduce their EV-DO Rev.B systems and terminals.

Early this year, four LTE licenses were issued in the Japan market. However, it is expected that Japan will only realize large-scale LTE commercial launch by 2011 when the market will experience an explosive growth of wireless broadband services.

ZTE offers customized and advanced solutions to support operators’ long term business operations by lowering their TCO and at the same time maximizing their ROI. There are now more than 120 million EV-DO users worldwide. To date, ZTE has established 70 EV-DO networks in more than 60 countries, including China, the United States, Czech, Poland, India and Indonesia.

The company has been creating waves in the global CDMA market with global CDMA subscriber capacity reaching 240 million. ZTE ranks first in terms of global base station shipment as well as taking the number one spot in China's CDMA sector by having 42 percents of the domestic market share.

ZTE is exhibiting at booth D059, Hall E5, at the Big Sight of Tokyo, Japan.