Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE and Kenyan mobile provider Safaricom on Wednesday introduced the first solar-charged mobile phone into the Kenyan market.
ZTE Corp expects to triple data card sales this year on booming demand in the domestic market which has entered the 3G era, the country's biggest public telecommunications equipment maker said Wednesday.
ZTE Corp's mobile phone sales grew 30 percent year on year in the first quarter of the year, boosted by the CDMA business and 3G phone sales, the Shenzhen-listed firm said yesterday.
ZTE Corp is talking with Chinese financial companies in hopes of raising a total of US$15 billion to be used as credit or loans to be offered to overseas telecommunications carriers to buy ZTE's equipment, its president said Thursday.