ZTE Corp. has convened the “World Cup Communication Security Meeting” with Cell C, the mobile operator in South Africa, to ensure the stability and security of communications during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

The initiative addresses the real-time challenges of maintaining the extensive and complicated communications network for the global sporting event, including wireless voice services, data services, transmission and other communications and security services which are provided by ZTE.

Additionally for 28 of the matches, ZTE also deployed its leading SDR (Software Defined Radio) solutions to provide services and coverage to the four major cities in South Africa where the World Cup matches are being hosted, namely Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein and Elizabeth.

ZTE has set up a “Communication Security Group” that brings together more than 120 technical experts to provide comprehensive real-time communication support.

“By further acceleration and steady forward-looking planning and execution of the network rollout, ZTE can and will deliver to Cell C one of the most advanced telecoms networks in the world,” said Rikard Slunga, Chief of Network Transformation for Cell C.