Telecommunication News
- ZTE inks purchase deal with Sprint Nextel
Date: 18-Jul-2007 Sources: (Shenzhen Daily)
CHINA'S second-largest telecom gear maker, ZTE Corp., said yesterday it has inked a deal to supply wireless equipment to Sprint Nextel Corp. as it tries to broaden its toehold in Western markets.
ZTE's U.S. unit will provide WiMAX PC cards, modems and other devices to Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. wireless firm, which plans to make its WiMAX services commercially available to 100 million people in the United States by the end of 2008, ZTE said in a statement.
Chinese telecom gear makers, long established in emerging countries such as India and Africa, have made strides in past years into more mature markets.
Shenzhen-based ZTE's larger cross-town rival, Huawei Technologies Co., said last month that it had won a contract to help Vodafone expand its Spanish third-generation telecoms network.
In March, ZTE Corp. scored its first infrastructure equipment deal in Britain. WiMAX is an advanced wireless multimedia network for users of mobile phones and other devices.
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