ZTECorporation announced on February 18 that it is now among the top three vendors in the LTE infrastructure industry,according to a recently announced market tracker report by Open Vista Consulting.

According to the report,ZTEhas achieved outstanding results in industry contribution,market competitiveness,product competitiveness,and solution competitiveness.These results show that ZTEhas moved to become one of the top three LTEinfrastructure vendors in the world.

ZTEaccounts for 21%of the LTEmarket and“has made considerable contributions to TD-LTEin the evolution from TD to LTE,”the report states.It also states that ZTEwas the first to put forward and commercially deploy Software Defined Radio(SDR)and that ZTEhas enabled voice support in LTEby applying Evolved Packet Core(EPC)and IPMultimedia Subsystem(IMS).

The report also states ZTEhas one of the most complete product lineups of any vendor and therefore is in a leading position in terms of platform products and TCO.

ZTEenvisions that LTEwill be a strategic product in the mobile broadband era.The company has 4,000 researchers involved in R&D and global promotion of LTE products.Building LTEtest networks and commercial networks throughout the world is part of the company's LTEstrategy.In 2011,it willfurther promote the application of LTEaround the world.