ZTE Corporation, a publicly owned and partially state-owned technology company headquartered in China, was founded in 1985 and is listed on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. With an estimated 30,440 employees, the company reported $18.6 billion in revenue as of 2025. ZTE specializes in telecommunication, with its core business encompassing enterprise and telecoms software, wireless, exchange, optical transmission, data telecommunications gear, telecommunications software, and mobile phones. The company primarily sells products under its own name but also functions as an OEM.

2025 Revenue

Founded

1985

Headcount

30,440

Headquarters

China

Primary Segment

Enterprise and telecoms software

Ownership

Publicly Owned

Deployments

111

News Summary:

On September 11, 2026, ZTE and Antel completed Latin America's first validation of symmetric 50G PON technology in Montevideo, Uruguay. This solution ensures the long-term coexistence of GPON, 10G PON, and 50G PON. Previously, on September 10, ZTE launched its 15th Global Summit & User Congress in Kuala Lumpur, an event themed 'Architecting Infinity-From Connectivity to Digital Value' and "Connectivity Plus Computing," gathering over 500 government officials, operator executives, and industry partners. The summit runs alongside GSMA M360 ASEAN. On the same day, ZTE hosted its Global Services Forum in Jakarta, committing to building an open, collaborative, and value-sharing ecosystem driven by "Connectivity + Computing" while celebrating delivery milestones for Indonesia's largest network integration project with XLSMART. Earlier on September 10, ZTE's AI Smart Display debuted at IBC 2026, integrating 4K entertainment and IoT to shift smart home interaction to service-proactive via agentic AI, which includes a senior-care solution offering AI consultation, fall detection, and emergency response.

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ZTE offers 41 products in the enterprise tech, telecoms tech, connectivity and cloud, media and telecoms services and media tech industries. ZTE's product portfolio comprises of video business systems, telecoms network infrastructure, consumer electronics, bSS/OSS, dSL access, generative AI, connectivity and distribution services, fibre access, data centre infrastructure, wi-Fi and mesh networks, enterprise cloud, enterprise and telecoms software, set-top boxes, enterprise connectivity services, broadband and VAS software and fixed wireless access.
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ZTE's revenues were $18.6B in 2025. Caretta Research has split ZTE's revenue into 26 different product categories, the largest of which is 5G MEC, which represents 52% of ZTE's revenue.
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ZTE has commercial and technical partners like Telkomsel, Meta and Ooredoo. Examples of ZTE's suppliers include Thales and ZTE.

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