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WITH ZTE—the Shenzhen, China-based telecom
entity—taking an absolute battering in the Philippines over the
now aborted and highly polemic multimillion- dollar National
Broadband Network (NBN) project, the company has been scrambling
around to spread some positive news over here about its credibility.
And like manna from heaven
(though not that the Chinese give much heed to celestial matters), a
technology research and consulting firm curiously named as the
Yankee Group (though as far as we can ascertain it has no connection
whatsoever with the US of A!) has picked ZTE Corp. as the most
competitive telecommunication vendor in China, India, Africa,
Eastern Europe and the emerging Asia-Pacific market (we wonder, the
Philippines as well?)
This we discovered in an email
sent to us by ZTE, which had the Yankee Group rank the company
glowingly in terms of CDMA equipment competitiveness, thereby
affirming the company’s global stature as a leading provider of
telecom equipment and network solutions.
ZTE tallied the highest score in
four out of seven categories the Yankee Group used to measure the
CDMA competitiveness of vendors. The seven key evaluation factors
were price, technology, existing installed base, product portfolio,
integration capability, government support and company culture.
“ZTE’s increasing
competitiveness is credited to its large installed base in China,
India and emerging Asia-Pacific, as well as its long-term commitment
and investment in CDMA technology,” said XJ Wang, senior analyst
of the Yankee Group.
“With its current momentum in
the CDMA industry, this is the best timing for ZTE to further
collaborate with well-established CDMA providers in North
America.”
According to Li Jian, the general
manager of ZTE’s CDMA products, their responsiveness to
customers’ needs in providing state-of-the-art CDMA2000 solutions
at a lower TCO has made it easier for carriers worldwide to partner
with ZTE for their CDMA network projects.
“In the past two years, we have
delivered the highest number of base stations in the global CDMA
arena,” she pointed out.
The techies out there might be
interested to know that CDMA2000 is a hybrid 2.5G / 3G technology of
mobile telecommunications standards that uses CDMA, a multiple
access scheme for digital radio, to send voice, data, and signaling
data (such as a dialed telephone number) between mobile phones and
cell sites.
“We are committed to developing
new products and providing the best technical support to our
customers, and hence, very keen on capturing larger market share in
key leading markets such as the US, Japan and Korea,” Ms. Li
added.
To date, ZTE’s CDMA products
have been deployed by over 120 operators in more than 70 countries
globally.
The company holds a dominant
position in China by capturing 34 percent of the local CDMA market
share. It has also delivered more than 74,000 CDMA base stations
worldwide, with approximately 135 million global users.
Founded over 30 years ago, the
Yankee Group claims to be the “first independent technology
consulting firm” which aims to safely steer businesses and
consumers through another sea-change in the way people connect with
one another.
But nowhere in the email is there
any clue given as to where exactly the Yankee group is based, though
we hazard a guess it must be in China.
Anyway, congratulations are in
order to ZTE on this great citation. Pity it came too late for its
business plans in the Philippines!
E-mail: bizzfizz_98 @yahoo.com
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