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  • Wireless Makes ZTE Fastest Growing Telecom Maker


    ZTE was the fastest growing telecom equipment maker and solutions provider in 2008, according to a report by research firm IDC. The report was based on 2008 earnings.

    Driving the growth is the company’s wireless business, which grew 20 per cent year-over-year.

    This part of ZTE’s operations, which includes sales of infrastructure, handsets, software and services and other wireless-related items, amounted to 38.5 per cent of the company’s total revenues.

    ZTE’s full year net profit jumped by 32.5 per cent to USD $239 million and revenue rose 27.4 per cent to USD $6.4 billion.

    The company has made it clear it intends to push deeper into the US handset market – currently the company currently sells phones mainly through MetroPCS – but it has still to sign many infrastructure deals.

    Its Chinese counterpart, however, the privately held Huawei, has made progress in that area.

    Huawei won a contract to provide the infrastructure for Cox Communications’ 3G CDMA network and is reportedly one of the three infrastructure companies AT&T has short-listed for its trial of LTE technology.

    Yin Yimin, president of ZTE Corporation, said the IDC result showed ZTE’s commitment to spearheading R&D initiatives, coupled with its determination to innovate and introduce high quality telecom equipment solutions, is paying off.

    "With a strong global workforce ready to provide the best technical support to our customers, we believe ZTE will remain a key player in the highly competitive telecom market in the years ahead," he said.

  • ZTE Announces EV-DO Rev B on CDMA2000 System


    ZTE Corp has achieved what it claims is the world’s first EV-DO Revision B (Rev B) VoIP call on its CDMA2000 system.

    It is the first time in the industry that a CDMA vendor has achieved a 9.3Mbps download rate and 5.4Mbps upload rate.

    EV-DO Rev B allocates flexible bandwidth and offers better Quality of Service (QoS) so improving user experience.

    It is a telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access.

    It was designed as an evolution of the CDMA2000 (IS-2000) standard that would support high data rates and could be deployed alongside a wireless carrier’s voice services.

    ZTE has completed the first stage of achieving EV-DO Rev B and adopted 3-carrier bundling technology, with each carrier having a bandwidth of 1.25MHz.

    Effectively, ZTE’s EV-DO Rev B upgrade’s EV-DO Rev A’s software with no additional hardware equipment required.

    Both ZTE’s EV-DO Rev A and Rev B adopt an identical baseband chipset.

    The company plans to commercialize its EV-DO Rev B system in Q3 2009.

    In future, EV-DO Rev B can bundle up to a maximum of 15 carriers, with a download (forward) rate of 73.5Mbps and an upload (reverse) rate of 27Mbps.

    Li Jian, general manager of CDMA Products for ZTE, said it had launched the world’s first EV-DO Rev.B technology several months ahead of its rivals.

    "We are committed to the industry and continue to invest and speed up large-scale commercial use of EV-DO Rev.B to leverage telecom operators’ investment in EV-DO Rev A networks," he said.