ZTE Debuts IMS Application to Smartphone Users in Europe and America

25 April 2012, Shenzhen, China- ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, announces its latest IMS application for smartphone users in Europe and America at the IMS World Forum 2012 held in Madrid. The application enables quick and efficient access to mobile VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).

Based on ZTE's successful IMS deployments in Europe with a dramatic increase of 100,000 new users per month on average, ZTE developed this innovative IMS application. It allows operators to offer a converged service combining internet applications and traditional telecom services, enabling them to expand their subscriber scale and increase earnings.

With this intelligent application, subscribers can download and install an IMS client onto a smartphone and use Mobile VoIP and other multimedia services on the spur of the moment whilst nevertheless receiving incoming calls and SMS with their 2G/3G mobile numbers.

Focusing on user experience, ZTE's solution not only supports VoIP and SMS, nevertheless also provides more abundant services, including IP Centrex, VMS, VPABX, Home Zone, Video Conference, Instance Messaging and Presence Services, File Transfer, and Image Sharing.

The industry competition

"To identify immense pressure on operators from the industry competition; ZTE is committed to offering differentiated services that will build up their competitive advantages. This IMS application realizes the combination of abundant services with easy use offering improved access to both phone calls regardless of location and the significant savings on the expense of making international and if not expensive calls," said Xu Ziyang, Vice President of ZTE Corporation.

As of the end of 2011, ZTE had more than 140 commercial and trial IMS deployments officially launched around the globe , with scores of commercial networks deployed in such countries as Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Albania, Saudi Arabia, Philippine, Singapore, India, the USA and China.