Guangdong Nortel Telecommunication Equipment Co., Ltd. (Guangdong Nortel) was officially founded in March 1995. It is a core business company invested by the global communication giant Nortel in China, dedicated to introducing high-end technology and actively promoting localization of research and development, production and service. With their cutting-edge telecommunication technology, reliable product quality and specialist client services, Guangdong Nortel has become the largest overseas research and development, production and service base of Nortel, providing high quality products and services to customers in China and around the world.

In November 1994, under the support of Chinese and Canadian government, incorporation contract of Guangdong Nortel was formally executed in Beijing. The early stage was mainly involved with production of DMS. In order to meet the requirement of market development, Guangdong Nortel took the lead in setting up the first localized production line of GSM and CDMA in 1999, and exported GSM equipments to wireless service provider Ufone of Pakistan for the first time in 2002. By year 2007, sales revenue of Guangdong Nortel reached 31 billion Yuan, among which export sales amounted to around 400 million USD. Its products have been served to across 27 provinces, municipals, and regions nationwide and other countries around the globe. In addition, 2007, Guangdong Nortel pioneered in setting up the first hardware design laboratory in Great China and adopted Lean Six Sigma management practice renowned in the industry to improve the internal management of the enterprise, further accelerated the progress of localization with outstanding supply chain management advantages and quality management system, fulfilling its responsibility and obligation of sustainable development in communication technology area with actions.  

To fulfill its commitment to the customers and to provide secure and reliable communication technology to users, Guangdong Nortel R&D Center was formally established in December 1995 in Guangzhou. As one of the two major research and development centers of Nortel in China, Guangdong Nortel R&D Center has undertaken the great task of providing technical support and service for business partners in the great China region and Asia-Pacific region, by accomplishing various R&D tasks with its highly adaptive procedure. To strengthen its R&D competence, maintain the leading status of technological innovation, Guangdong Nortel has continuously increased its investment in research and development to optimize its environment. In June 2008, R&D new lab has been put into use. The research and development personnel and engineer team will be expanded to over 1300 people focusing on the applications of wireless networks, NGN networks and multi-media services, as well as improving support for operators, application service providers and other customers through unified communication platform. By that time, Guangdong Nortel will further explore its research and development advantages and fulfill greater potential.

While continuously providing advanced and high quality products and services for domestic telecommunication market, Guangdong Nortel has also further explored its overseas market. Currently, Guangdong Nortel has presence in over 23 countries and regions in Europe, America, Pacific, Africa and Asia, constructing telecommunication networks of superior performance for telecommunication operators around the globe.