CHINESE telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corp. has been helping its Austrian partner build a “dream network,” the CEO of a leading Austrian telecommunications provider said Wednesday.

“To achieve great results you need great partnership, and that was the atmosphere right from the beginning of our cooperation with ZTE,” Jan Trionow said at the Vienna office of Hutchison Drei Austria GmbH. “We wanted to achieve something really big. We had a vision of building a dream network.”

In 2010 when Hutchison Drei had just started forming a partnership with ZTE, it was the latest entrant to the Austrian 3G market.

Today, with advanced emerging technologies and close cooperation with the Chinese company, Hutchison Drei has become a leading participant in the local telecommunications market, capable of fulfilling customers’ demands for ever more and ever faster data, according to Trionow.

In June, Hutchison Drei partnered with ZTE to deploy and activate a total of 20 5G sites in the city of Linz, achieving continuous 5G coverage for the first time ever in an Austrian city.

According to Trionow, Hutchinson Drei is aiming for full 5G coverage of the whole country, part of its new vision of building a dream network.

He also said that his company is now ranked the world’s number two in terms of monthly usage per SIM card, which means very high capacity for meeting customers’ demands — to put it into perspective, Austrian customers use 10 times more data than German customers.

As one of the largest Chinese companies operating in Austria, ZTE Austria GmbH employs more than 100 people, over 60 percent of who are local Austrians or members of other European Union countries, the company said on its website. (Xinhua)