ZTE Wins IPTV Supplier Award for 2009

20 January 2009, ZTE, a big Chinese telecom equipment provider today announced it has won Telecom Asia's 2009 IPTV Supplier Award, a telecom industry award honoring the leading equipment supplier of IPTV solutions. This follows ZTE's other recent and significant IPTV industry recognition as the recipient of the "Best IPTV Equipment Award" from Frost & Sullivan.

Sponsored by authoritative industry media outlet Telecom Asia, the IPTV Supplier Award recipient is selected by over 56 industry analysts, consultants and senior industry executives worldwide. ZTE attributes its win to its advanced IPTV technology and global market leadership. To date, ZTE has won 23 commercial IPTV contracts worldwide accounting for 2.6 million IPTV subscribers.

In 2009, ZTE won an IPTV capacity expansion project from Beltelecom, the VNPT IPTV project in Vietnam and the CANTV IPTV project in Venezuela. According to the latest report, ZTE now has the biggest IPTV market share in Asia and they own the third largest share in the global market.