Mobile operator Hong Kong CSL Ltd. , a long-time Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) customer, is set to award a cellular network upgrade contract to ZTE Corp. instead of its incumbent supplier, Unstrung has learned.
The award looks set to be a double blow to NSN because, according to industry sources, the European joint venture has not [...]
Wang Xudong, the Minister of the Information Industry of China, has confirmed that the restructuring of the country’s telecom industry is in progress. This is the first time a Chinese top official made such an announcement, sources reported.
However, Wang declined to give the details of the restructuring scheme and the specific time to issue the [...]
ZTE Corp’s mobile phone sales will surge 60 percent year on year in 2008 and the world’s sixth biggest handset maker aims to “significantly” lift sales of its own brand, the Shenzhen-based firm told Shanghai Daily yesterday.
In 2007, the firm sold 31.06 million phones globally and it expects to sell more than 50 million units [...]
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (”Huawei“), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, will exhibit its latest mobile technologies, products and end-to-end mobile broadband solutions under the theme “Convergence, Broadband, Green, and Evolution” at 2008 Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain from 11-14 February.
Huawei will be demonstrating its [...]
ZTE Corp. announced Monday that it has launched the world’s first pre-commercial SDR (software defined radio) base station, called the ZXGW B8036, which allows the change of frequency bands by switching software instead of hardware, unlike other base stations, allowing it to more easily support different bands.
The base station currently has simultaneous GSM and WCDMA [...]
Axerra Networks has announced that Taiwan Mobile has deployed its Pseudo-Wire solutions in its radio access network (RAN) for the backhaul of UMTS and GSM voice and data traffic. Axerra’s sytems enable Taiwan Mobile to utilize the power, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness of Carrier Ethernet as a full-service alternative to TDM backhaul in the mobile wireless [...]
