ZTE, China’s second largest telecoms equipment maker signed a network equipment Global Framework Agreement (GFA) with Vodafone. GFA stands for a contract framework that can be utilized as and when Vodafone decides to hire ZTE for network equipment in the future.

This deal builds up on the previous agreements between the two companies making ZTE a Vodafone Qualified Global Supplier in April 2006 and a terminal GFA announced in February 2007.

Detlef Schultz, Vodafone Global Supply Chain Management Director said “This GFA ensures that when Vodafone companies want to work with ZTE, the structure is in place to allow that to happen quickly and efficiently for both parties.”

Till now ZTE has shipped over eight million units of Vodafone branded GSM handsets to over 30 Vodafone operating companies and partner networks all over the world.