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UTSI 5.12 China Telecom to Offer IPTV Services in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Powered By UTStarcom's RollingStream End-to-End IPTV System
Jul 18, 2007 8:40:00 AM

ALAMEDA, Calif., July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UTStarcom, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTSI), a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, today announced that the company won a bid to deploy its RollingStream(TM) end-to-end IPTV solution with China Telecom (CTC) for a new commercial IPTV network in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

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"UTStarcom's RollingStream is the most widely deployed IPTV platform in China with approximately 270,000 live subscribers to date in commercial deployments in more than 13 provinces throughout the country," said Brian Caskey, vice president of worldwide marketing at UTStarcom, Inc. "We believe our proven expertise deploying and managing large-scale IP networks in China, coupled with our extensive collaborations with Shanghai Media Group, BesTV, the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) and the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), make UTStarcom the dominant IPTV technology leader in China today."

With a total population of more than five million people, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is located near the geographical central northern edge of China and bordered by the Shaanxi (Shanxi) and Gansu provinces as well as the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The initial deployment, which has the capacity to support 10,000 subscribers, will offer 52 live broadcast television channels, 48-hour time-shifting capabilities, 3,000 hours of video-on-demand (VOD) content and valued-added services including karaoke, online gaming, TV-based SMS and other interactive applications. UTStarcom is providing the complete RollingStream solution, from the streaming servers through the set-top boxes in the subscriber's home.

About UTStarcom's RollingStream

UTStarcom's RollingStream is an end-to-end solution designed for telecommunications operators and broadband service providers to deliver broadcast quality TV and on-demand entertainment programming over IP networks. RollingStream is designed to offer service providers the scalability, reliability, and bandwidth efficiency to support new services including broadcast TV, Time-shift TV, Network DVR (n-DVR), Video on Demand (VoD), Near Video on Demand (NVoD), Virtual Channel, and a rich set of business enabling as well as interactive and personalization features over existing network infrastructures. This may result in opportunities for increased revenues, new services, and improved customer satisfaction and retention.

For more information about UTStarcom's RollingStream solution, please visit: http://www.utstar.com/Solutions/Broadband/IPTV.

About UTStarcom, Inc.

UTStarcom is a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and international service and support. The company sells its broadband, wireless, and handset solutions to operators in both emerging and established telecommunications markets around the world. UTStarcom enables its customers to rapidly deploy revenue-generating access services using their existing infrastructure, while providing a migration path to cost-efficient, end-to-end IP networks. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Alameda, California, the company has research and development operations in the United States, Canada, China, Korea and India. For more information about UTStarcom, visit the company's Web site at http://www.utstar.com.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding UTStarcom's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future and including, without limitation, the anticipated deployment of a new commercial IPTV network in China using the Company's RollingStream product: the anticipated number of subscribers and traffic; the anticipated content offerings; the anticipated value-added services, the anticipated benefits to subscribers provided by the Company's products; the anticipated deployment targets and timing of deployment of the Company's products; the anticipated growth in demand for services that utilize the Company's products; the Company's plans to continue to develop the China market; the rapidly changing technology; the rapidly changing nature of the telecommunications market in China; possible delays in system deployments or product introductions; the termination of new contracts, partnerships or alliances; changes in government regulation and licensing requirements; and economic and political stability in China.

All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to UTStarcom as of the date hereof, and UTStarcom assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward- looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks and other risks relating to UTStarcom's business are set forth in the documents filed by UTStarcom with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments thereto.

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