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Chairman Hou Awarded “China’s 25 Most Influential Business Leaders in 2009”  

 

Hou Weigui, Chairman of ZTE, was awarded “China’s 25 Most Influential Business Leaders in 2009” at the 8th China Entrepreneur Summit in Beijing.  

 

The renowned economist Mao Yushi gave Hou the award and read the remark about him on the spot. “Chairman Hou precisely grasped the market pulse by virtue of his persistent and pragmatic management styles, which helped ZTE succeed on the world stage to be a major winner of 3G era and rank among the top-level vendors of telecommunication vendors.”

At the later forum themed on “Portrait for the New Business Civilization”, Chairman Hou said that ZTE’s long-term steady development can be contributed to its self-innovation and market-oriented innovation.

 

ZTE to Power Mass-Market Mobile TV in Brazil

ZTE has announced that together with Vivo, Brazil’s largest mobile operator, and Siano Mobile Silicon it has introduced the first 3G modem to provide mass-market mobile TV in Brazil.

 

The device enables viewing up to 13 DTV channels comprised of sports, news and entertainment. The announcement is well timed to provide football fans with plenty of platform options to enjoy World Cup matches, including notebooks and netbooks.

 

The new data card was designed by ZTE, based on Siano’s high performance SMS1130 multi-standard receiver chip, which supports the Brazilian ISDB-T DTV format.

 

VF236 Wins Favor of Vodafone

The ultra-thin mobile phone VF236, customized by ZTE for Vodafone, enjoys a good sale in Germany at present. The phone wins the favor of Vodafone and end-users in the German market with excellent design, stable performance, especially its “prepaid balance indicator” function.

 

ZTE is the first handset manufacturer in the world to realize the balance indicator function. Compared with the SMS alerts, this function is more convenient and humanized. Once the function is activated, the handset can display the remaining balances in red, yellow, green colors to inform the prepaid users of the account balances in real time. All these make VF236 a user-friendly product rather than simply a low-end phone in the German market.

 

Vodafone considers that the “balance indicator” function is a great innovation, which contributes greatly to its market expansion and solidifies its leading position in the local market. In return, Vodafone Germany will add the ZTE logo on some of its VF236 advertising posters to highlight the ZTE brand.

 

ZTE 09 Mobile Phone Sales Volume to Hit 60mn

ZTE is expected to sell 60 million mobile phones globally in the full year 2009, said ZTE’s Vice Executive Vice President and head of the Mobile Terminals Division, He Shiyou.

 

ZTE gained a mobile phone revenue of more than CNY 5.5 billion in the first half of 2009, rising 29.8% year on year, and its mobile phone sales volume increased 38% to 14.2 million in the third quarter of 2009, close to Sony Ericsson. (TMCnet Dec. 29, 2009)

 

Telecom Italia, ZTE Rebuild Fibre-Optic Network at L'Aquila

 

 

Telecom Italia with the support of ZTE has offered a significant boost to post-earthquake reconstruction by laying modern fibre-optic network infrastructure into every single new home in the C.A.S.E. project (the acronym stands for Earthquake-Proof, Sustainable and Environmentally-Compatible homes).

 

 Under the “L’Aquila Ultrabroadband Project” initiative, on schedule, all 183 buildings on new plots have had ultra broadband connections installed capable of offering speeds of up to 100 Megabits per second. Every family assigned one of the 4,600 new homes will have access to telecommunications services and broadband links with sufficient capacity to offer groundbreaking services such as IPTV and high-speed internet access.

 

ZTE to Launch Android™ Smartphones in Q1 2010

ZTE announced on Jan. 13, 2010 that it has joined the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), a partnership of more than 60 global mobile industry leaders, and confirmed plans to launch Android-powered smartphones in the first quarter of 2010.

 

“Development of Android smartphone is dominated by technical innovation within the popular smartphone category,” said Mr. Lin Qiang, General Manager of ZTE Smartphones. “To accommodate this industry movement, ZTE has invested heavily in the research and development of Android smartphones during the last year. In the first quarter of this year, ZTE will launch smartphones based on the Android platform.”

 

ZTE Supports Aid Efforts in Haiti

ZTE announced on Jan. 15, 2010   that it has delivered solar-powered handsets and its GoTa trunking system to the Haiti government to provide much needed communication equipment needed for aid efforts for the victims of the earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan.14. The company has confirmed that its 11 employees stationed in Haiti are safe and in a healthy condition. 

 

 With the local electricity and power infrastructure destroyed by the earthquake, priority was given to provide solar-powered handsets that could be effectively used by relief agencies on the ground.

 

ZTE Bags Europe 3G Network Upgrades

The E-Plus Group and KPN Group Belgium have selected ZTE to supply HSPA-enabled 3G equipment for further expansion and technical upgrade of their mobile networks. ZTE will support both operators in all aspects of their customer-oriented voice and data network expansion strategy, focusing investment in the right technology at the right time.

 

In cooperation with ZTE, E-Plus Group and KPN Group Belgium plan to further expand their 3G networks over the next years.

 

ZTE Partners with SingTel to Run LTE Trials

ZTE will collaborate with SingTel to carry out LTE trials in the Philippines market. The two companies also agree to work on long-term planning for LTE network infrastructure as well as strategic management of the network. LTE is forecasted to become the dominant 4G technology for CDMA and GSM/UMTS carriers.

 

The trial is scheduled to run for six to nine months starting early 2010 in order to meet the strong local market needs for broadband and high-speed network access.

 

Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012

Gartner, Inc. has identified the top 10 consumer mobile applications for 2012. Gartner listed applications based on their impact on consumers and industry players, considering revenue, loyalty, business model, consumer value and estimated market penetration.

 

The top 10 consumer mobile applications in 2012 will include money transfer, Location-Based Services (LBS), mobile search, mobile browsing, mobile health monitoring, mobile payment, Near Field Communication (NFC) services, mobile advertising, Mobile Instant Messaging and mobile music.

 

Handset Market Recovery in Focus After Weak 2009

The mobile phone industry suffered badly in 2009 as recession-hit consumers around the world cut spending on new gadgets, but demand for new phones started to grow again in the fourth quarter as economies recovered.

 

“It will be the first quarter of growth since third quarter 2008 and it should formally signal the end of the global handset recession,” said analyst Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics.

 

Analysts on average expect the cellphone market to grow 9.3 percent in 2010, a Reuters poll of analysts showed.

 

Google Named "Word of the Decade" by American Speech Scholars

The word “tweet”, derived from sending a short message via Twitter (noun) and the act of sending such a message (verb) was the top word of 2009, the American Dialect Society (ADS) said.

 

In its annual Word of the Year vote, the society said the use of the word Google, a verb which means to “to search the Internet”, came because almost everybody in the world uses the term today.

 

Other finalists for this year’s Word of the Decade included “9/11”, “Facebook”, “blog”, “text”, “Wi-Fi” and “war on terror”.

 

Gartner Forecasts Mobile Web Access Will Surpass PCs by 2013

Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the dominant web access device worldwide by 2013 according to a new forecast issued by research firm Gartner.

 

Based on Gartner’s PC installed base forecast, the total number of PCs in use should top 1.78 billion units in 2013 — by that time, the combined installed base of smartphones and browser-equipped enhanced phones is expected to exceed 1.82 billion units, and the gap will continue to grow in the years to follow.

 

Consumers Show Interest in Mobile Couponing Finds Honeywell Survey

Mobile couponing is still an early stage technology, yet the recent “Mobile Couponing Survey” commissioned by Honeywell and conducted by Harris Interactive found nearly half (46 percent) of adults who own a mobile phone are at least somewhat likely to try receiving and redeeming bar-coded coupons via their mobile phones. Young adults (ages 18-34) make up the largest demographic interested in mobile couponing, with 66 percent at least somewhat likely to try the technology, suggesting mobile couponing is an emerging technology for the retail space, especially in young adults. The online survey, conducted December 15–17, 2009, polled 2,257 U.S. adults aged 18 years and older.