ZTECorporation is to provide China Telecom,the country's largest fixed-line operator,with its largest metropolitan intelligent fixed-line NGN network.The commercial trial network willbe located in Shanghai,one of the most economically developed and densely populated Chinese cities,which has around 10 million fixed-line and PHSsubscribers.It will mainly employ ZTE Fixed-line 3G@NGN solutions for provisioning enhanced calling services and data services.

The first phase of the intelligent network will be in operation by July 2006,provisioning an assortment of services including polyphonic ringtones,number portability,prepaid fixed lines,synchronous rings,etc..

″The large subscriber base makes any service deployment in Shanghaivery complicated,″said Mr Huang Dabin,Vice General Manager of ZTENetwork Division.″We are proud of being chosen for the network updating and improvement,which will largely advance the network's intelligence,mobility and multimedia features.″

The China Telecom agreement is just the latest NGN success for ZTEwhich was the first Chinese member of ISC(International Softswitch Consortium).Since embarking on a feasibility analysis of the technology in 1998,ZTEhas constructed China's first commercial network based on Softswitch technology and installed around 200 NGN networks in countries including Indonesia,Pakistan and the Philippines.

In 2005,ZTEhas notched up a series of global NGN wins.In July,ZTEwas chosen to build Central Asia's first commercial NGN network following an agreement with Tajikistan's major fixed line operator,Tajiktelecom.In September the American telco Corisat selected ZTEto build a network enabled by ZTENGN solutions to deliver enhanced calling services and wholesale VoIPservices across America and Latin-America.In December,Emcali,one of Colombia's four major fixed-line operators,chose ZTEto provide the infrastructure for its upgraded Softswitch-based Next Generation Network.