ZTE
| Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Company Limited
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | CNE1000004Y2 |
| founding | 1985 |
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Shenzhen , People's Republic of China
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| Number of employees | approx. 70,000 |
| Branch | Telecommunications and network equipment supplier |
| Website | www.zte.com.cn |
ZTE ( Chinese 中兴通讯股份有限公司 , Pinyin Zhongxing Tongxun Gǔfèn yǒu Xiàn Gongsi , English Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Company Limited ) is an established in 1985 telecommunications equipment based in Shenzhen High-Tech Industrial Park (SHIP), located in the district of Nanshan of Shenzhen , Guangdong , China is located. The company's shares are traded on the Hong Kong and Shenzhen stock exchanges.
history
ZTE Corporation has been expanding into foreign markets since 1996 . From around 70,000 employees worldwide, around 10,000 work in over 100 foreign branches. ZTE's customers include over 500 network operators in more than 140 countries.
In June 2007, the Chinese business magazine Global Entrepreneur recognized the Indian subsidiary of ZTE as the best Chinese company in the emerging markets sector. In the same year, ZTE moved its German headquarters to Düsseldorf .
The focus of the product portfolio is the development and manufacture of devices in the telecommunications and network area ( UMTS , GSM , xDSL , IPTV and LTE ). ZTE produced some Vodafone basic cell phones such as the Vodafone 125 or 225.
ZTE signed a contract with Timor Telecom in 2009. One wants to expand the mobile radio system in East Timor and establish wideband CDMA . In Brazil , ZTE brought out a cell phone brand for the cheap market. Latin America accounted for seven percent of ZTE's global revenue in 2009.
Starting in 2010, ZTE supplied hardware for the HSPA expansion of the mobile network from E-Plus and the Belgian KPN subsidiaries.
In Austria, the mobile operator Hutchison Drei Austria is cooperating with ZTE to expand the infrastructure (since 2010 HSDPA ). All cell phone masts will be modernized with ZTE.
In Germany, the discounter brand congstar has been marketing ZTE smartphones since 2012.
On August 12, 2013, ZTE announced that it would be offering its first ZTE Open smartphone with Firefox OS on Ebay in the US and UK. Without a contract with a provider, the smartphone should cost around 80 US dollars. So far, the ZTE Open has only been available from the Telefonica provider in Spain, Venezuela and Colombia since July.
In Germany, ZTE took over the technical operation of the E-Plus mobile network on January 8, 2014 .
From the 2016/2017 season, ZTE was a co-sponsor of Borussia Mönchengladbach . The contract expired in June 2018.
At the GSMA Mobile World Congress on February 26, 2017, ZTE presented the world's first smartphone that supports the Pre5G Giga + MBB standard for data transmission of up to 1 gigabit per second. The 5G standard is expected to be ready for the market in 2020, with download speeds up to 10 times faster than LTE devices.
In Italy, Wind Tre has been relying entirely on ZTE technology for network expansion since 2017.
On May 10, 2018, ZTE ceased operations. ZTE should no longer receive semiconductor chips from the US manufacturer Qualcomm by 2025 , as cell phones with those chips were exported to Iran. At the beginning of June 2018, this policy was revised by a presidential decree. In return for a compensation payment of one billion dollars, a deposit of another 400 million dollars in an escrow account, the replacement of management staff and special compliance obligations, ZTE can now be supplied with semiconductor chips again.
At the end of 2018, the network operator Telefónica Deutschland terminated the four-year contract for the maintenance of the Telefónica network in Germany. The Handelsblatt reported that the maintenance of the Telefónica network was ZTE's most important order in Germany, with which more than half of ZTE's employees in Germany were entrusted.
Products
In Germany and in other parts of the world, numerous terminals, e.g. B. USB surf sticks , WLAN routers and cell phones , manufactured by ZTE, sold by Telekom , Vodafone and O 2 , among others . At the GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) in February 2012, ZTE also presented numerous tablets of its own design with which the company wants to gain a foothold on the European market. At the current CES in Las Vegas, subsidiary Nubia presented a smartphone with two screens (one on the back of the case), which should be available from spring 2019.
Well-known products include the ZTE Blade and ZTE Axon smartphone model families .
criticism
In October 2012, it became public knowledge that the US government was accusing ZTE of aiding and abetting industrial espionage.
The prosecutor's office in Bonn has launched 2,016 investigations against several managers of the company in the year after a Telekom -Staff had confessed to accepting bribes and betray trade secrets. Both managers probably went back home and are beyond the reach of the judiciary. Similar allegations are known from the Norwegian telephone company Telenor .
In 2017, ZTE had to pay $ 100 million to reach an agreement with the US agency OFAC in order to be exempt from sanctions that had been imposed on the company for supplying US technology to North Korea and Iran.
In April 2018, the US Department of Defense decided to ban the sale of ZTE and Huawei devices at military bases for security reasons .
Web links
- Homepage (international) (English)
- ZTE Germany
- ZTE Mobile Germany
- About the Emerging Markets division
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chinese companies are drawn to the Rhine ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 21, 2009, Düsseldorf Economic Development Office
- ↑ China's ZTE takes third generation mobile phones to East Timor. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ E-Plus - All products and test reports. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ heise online: E-Plus is planning HSDPA expansion with 21.6 Mbit / s. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Mobile operator Orange disappears in autumn - help.ORF.at. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ A product from PortalHaus Internet Services GmbH (info@portalhaus.de): ZTE Kis Plus: Test. Retrieved on July 3, 2019 (German).
- ↑ ZTE successfully takes over network operation for the E-Plus Group - ZTE Deutschland GmbH. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ ZTE becomes a co-sponsor at Borussia. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ MWC: ZTE - nameless smartphone with gigabit cellular network. In: Heise Online . February 26, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Fernando Pineda: Wind-Tre, ecco sfide e incognite sulla nuova rete della cinese Zte. In: Formiche.net. December 22, 2016, accessed January 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Roland Quandt: US sanctions: ZTE switches off websites, network operators stop sales. WinFuture, May 10, 2018
- ↑ Anett Meiritz: Trump's billion dollar deal with China triggers a wave of criticism.
- ↑ Achim Sawall: ZTE has to pay 1.4 billion US dollars to the USA.
- ↑ Handelsblatt: That is why O2 is separating from the Chinese service provider ZTE. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
- ↑ The Chinese Tablet Armada , Heise, February 28, 2012, accessed on March 1, 2012.
- ↑ Nubia X: smartphone with two sides . heise.de. January 11, 2019. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
- ↑ tagesschau.de: USA suspects Chinese corporations of espionage ( Memento from October 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Carmela Fonbuena: Norway's telco giant bans ZTE for 6 months. abs-cbnNEWS.com, Newsbreak, accessed July 31, 2016 (American English).
- ↑ Reinhard Kowalewsky: Chinese managers under suspicion: espionage attack against Telekom. In: RP ONLINE. Retrieved July 31, 2016 .
- ↑ John Smith, Lecture: "Testimony of John E. Smith Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control US Department of the Treasury House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade Thursday, November 30, 2017" treasury.gov from 30. November 2017
- ^ New blow for ZTE and Huawei: Devices pulled from military base stores. In: www.digitaltrends.com. March 5, 2018, accessed July 3, 2019 .
