Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has launched its first tablet computer product Optik in the United States. Sprint will be reportedly in charge of the sales of Optik in the country. ZTE Optik will be available through Sprint direct ship sales channels, including Sprint Stores, Sprint Business Sales, Telesales and online store. With a two-year [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom announced its strategic focus for 2012 and said it will focus on the sales of phones with the prices between CNY1,000 and CNY2,000. On December 12, 2011, China Unicom and ZTE, the Chinese telecom equipment maker, jointly launched a customized phone named Skate V960, which is recognized as a strategic [...]

Cheng Lixin, ZTE's president for North America, said that the company plans to launch high-end smartphones for the U.S. in 2012. Previously, ZTE was best known for making low-end phones and for being a broadband integrator. The announcement marks its entry into the high-end phone market, where it will face competition from smartphone giants like [...]

China Unicom has completed its first cloud computing procurement project, and four manufacturers won the bidding for various aspects of the project. In 2009, China Unicom established its cloud computing research team and the company started the procurement of desktop cloud platforms from October 2010. After over 2,000 reported tests, including maturity, reliability, and ease [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has published its semi-annual financial results for the first half of 2011, stating that its operating revenue increased by 21.55% year-on-year to CNY37.345 billion. Due to the influences of its market expansion strategy, product structure change, and delay of export tax rebate, ZTE's gross margin declined during the reporting period. [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corporation has announced that it will cooperate with mainstream telecom operators to create ten international innovation centers in Europe and America. Meanwhile, the company plans to establish additional innovation centers in China via partnerships with the country's three major telecommunications operators China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom. ZTE said [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that it has reached an agreement with Brazilian local enterprises to produce tablet computers in the country. The news was disclosed by Hou Weigui, president of ZTE, while meeting with Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil. Hou told local media that ZTE has established close cooperation relationships with Brazilian [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that it has signed a five-year global strategic cooperation framework agreement with the leading Asian operator Axiata. This agreement reportedly served as a procurement platform agreement, under which ZTE will supply communications products to Axiata and its subsidiary Opcos. The five-year global strategic cooperation framework agreement aims to [...]

Chinese Internet giant Tencent has announced that it is cooperating with China Telecom and five mobile phone manufacturers in the launch of six smartphone products, which have the embedded QQ-service platforms. These six smartphone products are made by five Chinese mobile phone makers, including Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad, K-Touch, and Hisense. Based on China Telecom's CDMA [...]

Chinese telecommunications equipment and network solutions provider ZTE Corporation and British Telecom have jointly announced that the two parties have formed a new research and development partnership to explore the next generation of fixed-line, wireless and mobile telecommunications services. This is reportedly the first time for the two companies to establish such cooperation, with which [...]

A subsidiary of Telenor and a wireless telecom operator in Malaysia, DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd has announced the appointment of ZTE Corporation to build a unified mobile network that will provide DiGi with fully transformed 2G/3G/4G network, starting from the third quarter of 2011. This new network is reportedly be able to deliver download speeds [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom, which currently is an official reseller of the Apple iPhone, has launched its self-developed smartphone operating system, Wophone, which the company claims to be the first smart terminal operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China. China Unicom reportedly started the development of the operating system and the basic [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has published its unaudited financial statistics for 2010, stating that its net profit increased by 32.39% year-on-year to CNY3.254 billion during the year. The company announced that promoted by the increase of sales scale in 2010, its operating revenue reached CNY70.332 billion, a year-on-year increase of 16.69%; its net profit [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corporation has announced that UQ Communications, the mobile WiMAX license holder in Japan, has started deploying the WiMAX Pico base stations developed by ZTE in collaboration with Hitachi. The initial scale of this project will be over 1,200 base stations and the WiMAX Pico base stations will gradually enter commercial [...]

U.S. broadband service provider Novatel Wireless has sued its competitors Franklin Wireless and ZTE for infringing five patents related to its MiFi mobile hotspot equipment. According to local media reports, Novatel Wireless' MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot equipment can access to the Internet via the cellular data network. The MiFi line creates a personal cloud of [...]

ZTE Corporation will soon jointly introduce China Unicom's multi-platform, multi-device application store called the "WoStore" into Hong Kong. "With a unique advantageous WCDMA network, China Unicom is optimistic about the potential of its WoStore service," said ZTE Vice President Yu Yifang. "ZTE is honored to be the sole partner for the online service platform and [...]

China's ZTE Corporation has successfully deployed eight 3G stations at the Mt. Everest National Park to provide quality voice and 3G broadband services for local residents and mountaineers from all around the world preparing to climb the world's highest mountain. To withstand the high altitude and extremely harsh natural environment of the Himalayas, ZTE provided [...]

China's ZTE Corporation has received validation from the U.S.-based National Institute of Standards and Technology in regards to 140-2 Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program in wireless infrastructure equipment. ZTE is the first Chinese telecom provider ever to receive the NIST FIPS 140-2 security validation. Falling under the U.S. Federal Information Security Management Act, NIST is the [...]

China Unicom has reportedly started the public test of its online application store Wostore and the platform will be formally put into operation later this month. With the formal launch of Wostore, China's three major telecom operators will all have their own application stores. At the same time, the online application market will become a [...]

During the P&T/Expo Comm China 2010 held in Beijing from October 11 to 15, the Chinese telecom equipment makers Huawei and ZTE displayed their own branded tablet computer products, which claimed to be lighter, thinner, and cheaper than iPad, the tablet computer made by Apple. Huawei's tablet computer product reportedly adopts the Android 2.1 system [...]