ZTE and Huawei, the two big Chinese vendors, have been majoring on 5G Advanced to stand out from rivals (including each other), but without acknowledging the competition. This has been exploited by the world’s largest telco, China Mobile, which has been parading 5G-A deployments in collaboration with both Huawei and ZTE. Wireless Watch has already described how China Mobile deployed Huawei’s 5G-A platform for differentiated services during 2024, designed to raise ARPUs. ZTE has since weighed in with details of its collaboration with China Mobile over 5G Advanced in other areas dating back around a year, according to its product planning director Yi Ding. As this suggests, ZTE, like Huawei, has benefited from offering 5G-A ahead of formal standardization, which…