ZTE Announces First EV-DORevision B on CDMA2000 System

ZTECorporation（ZTE）,a lead ing g lobalp roviderof telecommunications equipmentand network solutions,announced,on February 24,2009,another technological b reakthrough by achieving the world's firstEV-DO Revision B（Rev.B）Vo IPCallon its CDMA2000 system,marking the first time in the industry thata CDMA vendorachieves an im p ressive 9.3Mb/s download rate and 5.4Mb/s up load rate.This remarkab le featonce again demonstrates ZTE's lead ing position in the CDMA industry.

The com pany has com p leted the firststage ofachieving EV-DO Rev.B and adop ted 3-carrierbund ling technology,w ith each carrierhaving a bandw id th of1.25MHz.Compared w ithmature commercialEV-DO Rev.A,whatZTE's EV-DO Rev.B does is only upg rading EV-DO Rev.A's software,with no add itionalhardware equipment required.Both ZTE's EV-DO Rev.A and Rev.B adop tidenticalbaseband chipset.

ZTE p lans to commercialize its EV-DO Rev.B system in Q3 2009,reaffirm ing its lead ing position in EV-DO technology development.In future,EV-DO Rev.B can bund le up to a maximum of15 carriers,w ith a download rate of73.5Mb/s and an up load rate of27Mb/s.The unique features ofEV-DO Rev.B inc lude allocating flexib le bandw id th and offering betterQoS,hence enhancing userexperience.

There are now more than 105m illion EV-DO users worldw ide.To date,ZTE has estab lished 70 EV-DO networks inmore than 60 countries,inc lud ing China,the United States,Czech,Poland,India and Indonesia.

ZTEhas been creating waves in the g lobalCDMAmarket with g lobalCDMA subsc riber capacity reaching 200m illion.It ranks firstin term s ofg lobalbase station shipmentas wellas taking the numberone spotin China's CDMA sec torby virtue ofhaving one third of the domesticmarketshare.The continuous success of ZTE in the CDMAmarket is attributed to a corporate policy ofconstantly introducing technical innovation,offering low TCO for its All-IPCDMA2000 solutions,and quick customer response.