ZTECorporation announced on May 13,2009 that it is the first company to successfully complete and pass the TD-LTE Phase l test together with key industry players including China Mobile,Vodafone and the Ministry of lndustry and lnformation of China on April 15,2009.The TD-LTEtest measures high bandwidth network capacity.

The results of ZTE's TD-LTEPhase l test indicated that the downlink sector reached the theoretical peak rate of 39 Mb/s with a 10 M bandwidth,at the same time,ZTE became the first company in the industry to realize 20 M bandwidth support.ln the trials,ZTEadopted third party test UEand the downlink peak rate attained TM500's upper limit of 61.228 Mb/s.Upgradable through terminal,the system is designed to support a downlink rate of up to 82.3 Mb/s in the future.

This TD-LTEtest also makes ZTEthe first company to complete a performance test under a 350 Km/h high-speed mobile channel model,reaching the best theoretical value.ln fact,in May 2009,ZTEws the first industry vendor to pass China Mobile lnstitute's GSM/TD-SCDMA/TD-LTEjoint platform test further underlining its leading edge in the TD-LTEarea.

As one of the leading advocates of the TD industry chain,ZTEhas a taskforce of over 3,200 TD R&Dengineers with more than 900 devoted to TD-LTE.The Company has submitted more than 400 LTEpapers to the 3GPPConference to further propel and inspire industry development.Through continuous and extensive investments in R&D and manpower,ZTEhas been at the forefront of LTEfully demonstrating its leadership in both LTEand TD-LTE.