ZTE Construction Cosmote Romanian UMTS network

Beijing Time February 2 News, ZTE and Europe's leading multinational operators Cosmote group reached the UMTS equipment ordering agreement, ZTE will be Cosmote Group's Romanian subsidiary to build UMTS network. Cosmote is the largest multinational mobile operator in the Balkans, headquartered in Greece, mainly in south-east European countries, including Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania and so on. ZTE, as a supplier of Cosmote's UMTS network system equipment, will open a HSPA network. Deutsche Telekom, which occupies 30% of the Greek ote Group, is the largest shareholder of the OTE Group and ote 100% shares.　　The signing of the contract marks the new stage of ZTE's operation and expansion in the European UMTS market. According to the agreement, ZTE will provide cosmote Romania with the industry-leading SDR technology platform to protect the network from GSM/UMTS to HSPA and LTE seamless upgrade seamlessly, and to maintain the current network in the upgrade of users. ZTE's SDR platform has been successfully delivered in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam, India and Europe, delivering outstanding opex savings to customers. At the same time ZTE launched the industry's leading distributed SDR base station to ensure that the new site installation can be successfully completed in a short time. By the end of March 2010, ZTE will help Cosmote open the HSPA business, allowing HSPA high-speed data services to cover all major major cities in Romania. At the same time, ZTE has customized the network upgrade plan based on EPLMN solution for Cosmote, which makes Cosmote's network upgrade is least affected by the net users, and any cosmote 2G users who hold 3G terminals can change without any changes　　Direct access to new 3G high-speed data services. The collaboration with Cosmote has opened a new chapter in the 3G market in Romania, which has further deepened and strengthened the cooperation between ZTE and the leading multinational operators in Europe.