China Unicom and ZTE Complete the 5G Call with Zte's 5G Prototype Smartphone
January 18, 2019 at 03:05 am
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ZTE Corporation announced that the Guangdong branch of China Unicom and ZTE have made the world's first 5G call by means of ZTE's 5G prototype smartphone in Shenzhen 5G field trial. The test also completed the verification of diverse services, such as Wechat group voice call, online video and web browsing. This achievement has made Shenzhen field of China Unicom become the world's first commercial test field to make the first call in the NSA mode and it is in compliance with the 3GPP Rel-15. Known as "the City of Innovation", Shenzhen is one of the first 5G pilot cities of China Unicom. Shenzhen is fully verifying the 5G network equipment's networking capabilities, special services, roaming and interconnection, and the inheritance of existing services in phases, thereby laying a solid foundation for the 5G whole network commercial construction. The test adopts ZTE's 5G end-to-end solution, including radio access network, core network, transport network and intelligent device, realizing the connection with ZTE's 5G prototype smartphone in the field environment. Meanwhile, the test has verified several 5G key technologies such as Massive MIMO, 5G NR, NSA dual connectivity, FlexE transport technology and 5G Common Core.
ZTE Corporation specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of telecommunications equipment and solutions. Net sales break down by market as follows:
- wired and mobile network operators (73%): sales of network systems and equipment (routers, switches, modems, servers, WLAN products, Ethernet gateways, broadband access systems, optical products, etc.);
- individuals (15.9%): manufacturing and sales of mobile devices (smartphones, phones, tablets, mobile video game terminals, smart projectors, cameras, very high speed mobile modems, etc.);
- enterprises and government organizations (11.1%): design and development of computerization solutions, interconnection and data transmission systems, data center solutions, video surveillance systems, videoconferencing equipment, network products, cloud computing architectures, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: China (67.1%), Asia (14.5%), Europe-Americas-Oceania (13.6%) and Africa (4.8%).