The Chinese vendor said it expects between 1 billion ($161.1 billion) and 1.15 billion yuan in revenue for the first half of this year, having previously cited between 800 million and 1 billion.
China Mobile awarded a substantial number of contracts for its 4G roll-out to ZTE and rivalling vendor Huawei in May this year.
ZTE has been pushing forward with innovative technologies and solutions, and earlier this month, revealed its pre-5G concept plan.