ZTE tops CDMA market in 2006

NEW DELHI:Telecommunications equipment and network solutions provider, ZTE Corporation today announced that it has topped the world CDMA equipment market in 2006 by number of shipments.

ZTE shipped over 12,000 units of CDMA BTS equipment from January to December.

2006, 41 per cent of the global market by number of contracts according to China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) telecom academy.

"Our market achievements are strongly supported by our advanced products and focused R&D. We were the first in the world to deploy an IOS V5.0 based all-IP commercial CDMA-2000 network, six months earlier than our competitors. We were also the first to construct a commercial EV-DO Rev.A network," said Xie Daxiong, senior vice president of ZTE.

"We have constructed over 50 EV-DO networks in over 40 countries and regions and we are confident we will achieve even more in both the CDMA 2000 1X and EV-DO markets," he added.

Industry analyst Ovum anticipates that ZTE achieve 20 per cent market share in China's coming 3G CDMA market and will gain a rapid market share increase as a result.

To date, ZTE has deployed over 60 million lines of CDMA equipment in over 100 carriers' networks in more than 60 countries including India, Indonesia, the Czech Republic and countries in Africa, as well as in developed markets like the USA and Europe, ZTE said in a statement.

In India, ZTE was the sole CDMA equipment provider to the country's three largest CDMA operators, Reliance, TATA and BSNL, in 2006.

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