The Chinese giant ZTE and Euskaltel will open a service centre in Gijón

From these new facilities, which will employ 40 people, it will provide technological equipment and network solutions to the operator.

The Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE will open by the hand of Euskaltel (owner of Telecable) a new service centre in Gijón (Asturias). From these new facilities, which will employ 40 people, it will provide technological equipment and network solutions to the operator.

Juan José Cañizares, ZTE's general manager for southern Europe, said that Gijón will be just the beginning of "a whole future project of mass deployment".

ZTE will be in charge of managing the networks after the unification of the Asturian brand and R, now merged.
The opening of the Gijón centre is part of the agreement signed between ZTE at the end of last February. The operator signed a comprehensive supply and management agreement with ZTE Spain, through which the company will progressively become the benchmark supplier of fibre user equipment for the Euskaltel Group.

The agreement means that Euskaltel will have ZTE as a strategic partner to face its ambitious expansion plan in five new markets in Spain. The operator is already carrying out deployments in Navarra, León, Cantabria and La Rioja, thanks to its geographical proximity, as well as Catalonia, through the RACCtel+ brand, as a result of its agreement with the RACC.o Euskaltel maintains strong roots in these three markets, where it is a leader: in the Basque Country, through its Euskaltel brand; in Galicia, with the R mark; and in Asturias, through the Telecable brand.

Thus, the operator hopes to incorporate 90,000 new customers in their new markets.