ZTE | May 10, 2011 | Press Release
ZTE secures 60 new wireless contracts in 2010
10 May 2011, Shenzhen – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, secured the most new wireless contracts in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to an industry report.
EJL Wireless Research’s latest “Global Base Station Contract Analysis, Fourth Quarter 2010” report noted that ZTE had secured 48% of the total contracts awarded in the last quarter of 2010, giving it a number one ranking in the market. This position was achieved despite a reduction in the number of total contracts awarded within the wireless industry worldwide.
The ranking confirms the speedy growth of SDR (Software Definition Radio) base station shipment recently announced by ZTE. According to publicly released data, the total shipment of ZTE’s SDR base stations exceeded 700,000 units in 2010, three times higher than the previous year. ZTE also won 60 new wireless SDR contracts for all of 2010, accounting for growth of almost 50% since 2009.
With the SDR base-station platform, ZTE has achieved large-scale breakthroughs in the global high-end telecom market. In Europe, ZTE has deployed SDR base stations for KPN, Telenor, Telefonica, Optimus and H3G. In China, ZTE ranked No.1 in terms of the market share gained in the UMTS equipment market and No.2 in terms of the overall market share.
Meanwhile, ZTE continued to lead the global CDMA equipment market. Its WiMAX products have also been adopted by mainstream operators such as KDDI, Clearwire and Telefonica. ZTE’s LTE products have won 18 commercial application contracts with global operators, and nearly 70 pilot networks have been jointly deployed.
ZTE’s SDR platform supports multiple wireless access modes on a single hardware platform, including GSM, UMTS, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA, FDD LTE, WiMAX and TDD LTE. At the end of last year, ZTE won the Best Practice Award for “2010 SDR Equipment Vendor of the Year” from research firm Frost & Sullivan in recognition of ZTE’s outstanding contribution to the development of SDR technology and the wireless communications industry.
