A web search will give you lots of sources that indicate that ZTE is the 4th largest cellphone manufacture in the world.
Here is one:
ZTE Named World
I ain't saying that this is a good thing. Just repeating what I have read. Personally I would much prefer that we had more US manufactures.
I am old enough to remember when the US led the would in manufacturing. We have outsourced most of our manufacturing.
Thanks for the link!!
I just read the article, and it said for the "3rd quarter" ZTE became the 4th largest in terms of units shipped, shipping 7.5 million "smartphones". The way it was phrased is very misleading. Think about it? No doubt they are growing very fast..... but with only 7.5 million units that means they shipped less than that the previous quarter since we know sales of smartphones keep going up each quarter. So, annually, they are not even close to Apple yet, and have a long way to go catch the likes of Samsung.
Also in the article.. QUOTE: "ZTE smartphone shipments for the full year of 2011 were more than 15 million, an increase of 400% over 2010, making ZTE the fastest growing smartphone maker after Apple."
400% seems high in itself, but we are talking only 15 million phones (I'm assuming smartphones since my other post shows they had 57 million sold in 2011)