Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has launched its first tablet computer product Optik in the United States.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom announced its strategic focus for 2012 and said it will focus on the sales of phones with the prices between CNY1,000 and CNY2,000.

Cheng Lixin, ZTE's president for North America, said that the company plans to launch high-end smartphones for the U.S. in 2012.

China Unicom has completed its first cloud computing procurement project, and four manufacturers won the bidding for various aspects of the project.

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has published its semi-annual financial results for the first half of 2011, stating that its operating revenue increased by 21.55% year-on-year to CNY37.345 billion.

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corporation has announced that it will cooperate with mainstream telecom operators to create ten international innovation centers in Europe and America.

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that it has reached an agreement with Brazilian local enterprises to produce tablet computers in the country.

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that it has signed a five-year global strategic cooperation framework agreement with the leading Asian operator Axiata.

Chinese Internet giant Tencent has announced that it is cooperating with China Telecom and five mobile phone manufacturers in the launch of six smartphone products, which have the embedded QQ-service platforms.

Chinese telecommunications equipment and network solutions provider ZTE Corporation and British Telecom have jointly announced that the two parties have formed a new research and development partnership to explore the next generation of fixed-line, wireless and mobile telecommunications services.

A subsidiary of Telenor and a wireless telecom operator in Malaysia, DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd has announced the appointment of ZTE Corporation to build a unified mobile network that will provide DiGi with fully transformed 2G/3G/4G network, starting from the third quarter of 2011.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom, which currently is an official reseller of the Apple iPhone, has launched its self-developed smartphone operating system, Wophone, which the company claims to be the first smart terminal operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China.

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has published its unaudited financial statistics for 2010, stating that its net profit increased by 32.39% year-on-year to CNY3.254 billion during the year.

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corporation has announced that UQ Communications, the mobile WiMAX license holder in Japan, has started deploying the WiMAX Pico base stations developed by ZTE in collaboration with Hitachi.

U.S. broadband service provider Novatel Wireless has sued its competitors Franklin Wireless and ZTE for infringing five patents related to its MiFi mobile hotspot equipment.