China's ZTE Gets Contract to Extend Ethiopia's Mobile Phone Network

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China's ZTE Gets Contract to Extend Ethiopia's Mobile Phone Network

China's Zhongxing Telecom Corporation (ZTE) has been awarded a 29-million-US-dollar contract by authorities in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to expand the country's mobile telephone network.

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China's Zhongxing Telecom Corporation (ZTE) has been awarded a 29-million-US-dollar contract by authorities in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to expand the country's mobile telephone network.

ZTE's bid beat five other companies: Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel, and another Chinese firm, Huawei Technologies.

Under the contract awarded to ZTE, the firm will have to increase Ethiopia's GSM mobile telephone network from 50,000 to 200,000 lines within 12 months.

ZTE is also contractually obliged to install new mobile telephone networks in 12 major Ethiopian cities.

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