ZTEdemonstrated the company's newly Inter Operability Testing(IOT)tested 5.76 Mb/s High Speed Uplink Packet Access(HSUPA)network equipment at the GSMAMobile World Congress Barcelona 2008.This follows the successful launch of ZTE's 7.2 Mb/s HSDPA and 2 Mb/s HSUPA network equipment at China's PT/Wireless&Networks Comm exhibition in October 2007.

ZTE's extensive HSPA R&D program led to the company's initial deployment of HSPA in 2004 which featured the foundations of a smooth upgrade path enabling seamless hardware development.This was followed in 2006 by the deployment of 14.4 Mb/s HSDPAand in 2007 of 7.2 Mb/s HSDPA/HSUPA.At the same time ZTEsuccessfully carried out initial IOTtests and implemented interoperability partnerships with other major telecoms equipment vendors.

Today,ZTE's HSPA technology has been widely deployed across 30 countries and regions including Europe,Asia,and Africa.