Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation

Posted by daviddon on September 8th, 2015

Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and systems company which is the world's fourth-largest mobile phone manufacturer.

Who on earth is ZTE? Tech fans may have some idea, but to the general public the company remains just another random acronym. It soon won't be… bästa mobilen

On Thursday ZTE started revealing its master plan. The Chinese telecoms giant announced its first self branded products would be sold in the UK. It followed this up in proclaiming that by 2015 it will be the world's third largest phone maker. In 3 ½ years it believes only Nokia and Samsung will be selling more handsets. For a company most people haven't heard of that's a big claim, yet for its rivals it is also a hugely concerning one.

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To understand why requires a small history lesson. ZTE was founded in Shenzhen (HQ pictured) back in 1985 by Hou Weigui. It rose from a group of state-owned enterprises with ties to the government's Ministry of Aerospace and specialised in telecoms. In 1997 it had its first IPO on the Shenzhen stock exchange with a second on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2004. By this point it was the second largest telecoms equipment vendor in China, selling base stations, switches, software, broadband networking gear and handsets.

That year sales grew 35 per cent to .1bn, but more importantly it took advantage of China's growing relations with the West to begin exporting heavily around the world. By the end of 2004 exports had skyrocketed 170 per cent. And you still hadn't heard of them. köpa mobil på nätet

The reason why is ZTE has used the tried and trusted HTC model of making handsets for carriers to rebrand. This helps gain traction and earns carrier trust. Just two years later ZTE accounted for 40 per cent of orders for CDMA networks globally. Telus, Vodafone, Telefonica, Telstra, Orange and others were customers before 2007. Like HTC, however, ZTE is now ready to step into the limelight.

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In part taking the step to push its own brand has come because ZTE has paid its dues. The company now supplies handsets to most of the world's operators and sales have exploded. In 2010 ZTE shipped 51.8m units, double the 26.7m it managed in 2009. It outgrew every handset maker on the market, including Apple, and now sits fourth globally behind LG (3rd), Samsung (2nd) and Nokia (1st). Much of this comes from pushing low cost handsets, but arguably the most exciting aspect to ZTE from a consumer standpoint and most worrying to competitors is the way its smartphones are redefining the market. prisvärda mobiler

At the start of 2011 we spoke off the record with a senior source at Samsung. They told us the only company in the world that caused worry was ZTE. "We simply cannot make handsets as cheaply as it can," they explained. "And we cannot buy ZTE to make this problem go away because it is partly owned by the Chinese government. You do not push your luck with the Chinese government unless you want to lose access to a market of over a billion people."

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