SHANGHAI, April 2: ZTE Corp., China's second-largest telecoms equipment maker, has won a project to build a network in Rwanda, the company said in a statement on Monday.

ZTE will cooperate with sub-Saharan Africa's biggest mobile operator, MTN Group Ltd., to build a backbone network in Rwanda, as well as the first metropolitan network in Kigali, the capital.

Both the backbone and metropolitan networks will serve system upgrades to 2.5-generation level, which typically yields data transmission speed rates of up to 144 kilobits per second.

—Reuters

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