ZTE‘s Senior Vice President of Communications has announced that the company is planning on launching ten 5G smartphones next year, in 2020. Xu Feng stated the company’s goal is very clear which is to become a 5G pioneer, lead in innovation and return to the mainstream market.

5G networking is one of the most impactful advancements in technology in recent times. The network has become a hallmark for developed nations and a crucial feature in the smartphone industry. It is expected that 2020 and 2021 will see the arrival of 5G networking in the mainstream market with a complete integration occurring soon after. Many smartphone OEMs that had yet to fully utilize the early opportunity are now set to make an entrance in the mainstream market again.

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According to the senior executive, ZTE will launch various 5G smartphones in 2020 which will include smartphones priced under 2000 Yuan and 3000 Yuan (roughly 286 to 429 USD). Notably, ZTE’s plans are quite similar to Xiaomi’s plans of launching 10 5G smartphones in 2020 with devices priced both under and over 2000 Yuan as well. Xu Feng also added that there will be 160 million 5G smartphones in the market out of which China is expected to account for more than half of them.

Currently, China seems to be the most important country as a 5G market for ZTE. The company had launched its first 5G smartphone at the end of February 2019 which was dubbed the Axon 10 Pro 5G. It was powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC alongside the X50 5G modem. Thus, it can also be speculated that the company will launch its smartphones with Qualcomm’s 5G processors.

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Besides a traditional smartphone manufacturer, ZTE also has an even bigger tradition in telecommunications infrastructure, being among the top suppliers worldwide. As we enter the 5G era, ZTE is once again making big progress and has already secured 25 commercial contracts as far as 5G equipment is concerned with a future goal of 60 carriers globally.

According to IPlytics, as of June 15, ZTE had declared 1,424 families of 5G Standard-Essential Patents(SEP) and patent applications to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), ranking global top 3 in terms of the number of such families. Also, they have filed more than 3,500 5G patent applications, with over 30 experts at the company taking the key positions, such as president and reporter, in international standardization organizations. They have submitted more than 45,000 papers to the organizations, including more than 7,000 proposals for 5G NR/NexGenCore international standards.

The advantage of ZTE’s equipment is that the commercial 5G Common Core first launched by ZTE supports unified 2G/3G/4G/5G/fixed full convergence and full access, as well as 3GPP R15 SA and NSA, cutting investment cost by 40% for operators. The performance in terms of ultra-low latency is far ahead of the competition, while the technical specs for ultra-high precision clock synchronization are fully compliant with 3GPP, approaching the definition for a network with “perfect synchronization”.

Given the strong demand for 5G applications and the change in the models of how businesses will collaborate in the world of 5G, ZTE and its partners jointly carried out a large number of exploratory projects in 5G industry applications, promoted cross-industry integration and development, advocated for the implementation of intelligent ports, intelligent industry, intelligent security and other industry applications, in a move to build a healthy and complete industrial ecosystem together. To date, ZTE has teamed up with operators and partners to build models for vertical industry application of 5G+ in more than 15 verticals and established strategic cooperation with nearly 200 partners within the ecosystem to promote the digital transformation of the industry.

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Chinese telecommunications equipment giant ZTE has released a video showing the company’s 5G test rate on Weibo. In the video, it can be seen that the 5G rate reached a massive 2Gbps, while the 5G peak rate reached 2018.14Mbps.

In January this year, ZTE teamed up with China Unicom to make the first call from a 5G mobile phone. The call which was carried out at the Shenzhen 5G scale test field utilised 5G solutions provided by ZTE, including end-to-end products such as wireless access network, core network, transmission bearer network, and intelligent terminal. The 5G smartphone used for the call was ZTE’s 5G smartphone prototype that supports both the sub-6GHz and mmWave 5G mainstream bands.

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With such successful tests, we expect a gradual rollout of the 5G services to commence in earnest soon.   ZTE is set to begin sales of its 5G smartphone – Axon 10 Pro on May 1 which shows the rollout of 5G services in China is imminent. The Axon 10 Pro was first unveiled at MWC 2019 packing a Snapdragon 855 chipset. The device is equipped with a 6.47-inch curved full-screen AMOLED display with an FHD+ resolution and 19.5:9 aspect ratio.  The Axon 10 Pro equally packs several flagships and powerful hardware under its hood, including a triple camera setup.

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