ZTE Plans to Boost 2013 Smartphone Shipments by 50% With LTE

ZTE Corp., China’s second-largest maker of telephone equipment, said it plans to boost smartphone shipments 50 percent this year with a focus on high-end phones that run on fourth-generation, Long-Term Evolution, networks.

ZTE’s smartphone shipments more than doubled to 35 million units last year, from 15.8 million units in 2011, Lv Qianhao, global marketing director at ZTE’s handset division, said at a briefing in Hong Kong today.