China's largest listed telecommunications manufacturer and leading wireless solutions provider, has announced Wednesday the opening of its new U.S. corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas.

The new office will support ZTE's long-established research and development (R&D) centers in New Jersey, Dallas and San Diego and signifies the corporation's commitment to its progress within the U.S. market.

Since 1998, ZTE's U.S. R&D centers have focused on three principal communications systems: VoIP, optical broadband access and wireless solutions, and have established ZTE as one of the leading manufacturers of WiMAX technology.

"From our center in San Diego we have continued to develop products and services for this market and our leading position in WiMAX technology is a result of this approach," said James Jiang, president of ZiMAX Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of ZTE Corp. "This new office will give us the centrally located organization that we need to progress in the U.S. market."

Already in 2005, ZTE had signed partnership agreements with Qualcomm, Spirent and, in the WiMAX field, with Intel Corp. These agreements will see Intel and ZTE cooperate to develop and promote standards and specifications for 802.16-based networks.

"Intel and ZTE are both global players in their respective domains. This relationship is significant for global harmonization of WiMAX-based products," added Jiang.

ZTE's concentration on the U.S. market continues next month with its major presence at Supercomm 2005, in Chicago.

The company had also been given an exclusive contract to build a nationwide fixed-line voice network for China Telecom Corp., The Standard reported.

Source: China Daily