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PRESS RELEASE: UTStarcom Introduces New Brand Name for Its End-to-End IPTV Solution - RollingStream

ALAMEDA, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UTStarcom, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTSI), a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, today introduced the new brand name for its commercially deployed, end-to-end IPTV solution -- RollingStream(TM).
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"We believe the rebranding of our field-proven IPTV solution to RollingStream better articulates the function of UTStarcom's IPTV product family to enable service providers to offer their subscribers a variety of streaming applications over a single platform," said Brian Caskey, vice president of worldwide marketing at UTStarcom. "The name RollingStream speaks to what differentiates our technology -- the ability to efficiently parcel content segments to servers at the edge of the network and then deliver the segments sequentially to users on demand; so that their experience rivals watching a DVD."

Formerly know as mVision, RollingStream is a distributed end-to-end solution that is designed to enable telecommunications operators and broadband service providers to deliver broadcast-quality television and on-demand entertainment programming over IP networks. The solution's scalability, reliability, and bandwidth efficiency allow it to support new services, including broadcast TV, Network Personal Video Recorder (n-PVR), Video on Demand (VoD), and Near Video on Demand (NVoD), over existing network infrastructures. These services may give service providers opportunities to increase revenues, offer new services, and improve customer satisfaction and retention.

RollingStream partitions each program into segments that are cached on network edge servers based on viewing demand patterns and operator-specified policies. This mechanism allows service providers to store the beginning segments of feature-length programs directly at the network edge, close to the subscriber, and dynamically deliver the remaining segments once viewing starts. Compared to IPTV solutions that store all content either at the core, which results in network congestion, or in multiple complete iterations at the edge, which requires huge amounts of storage, UTStarcom's approach simplifies and expedites content delivery, reduces storage requirements, and minimizes network congestion.

Several major international telecommunications providers already deploy UTStarcom's end-to-end IPTV solutions. China Telecom, the largest fixed-line telecom operator in China, selected RollingStream to support its new IPTV service launched in China at the end of 2005. The first official service launch of up to 5,000 subscribers in Shanghai was the culmination of an integrated commercial trial of IPTV by China Telecom in five provinces throughout China. Softbank BB, the leading provider of broadband services in Japan, chose UTStarcom's RollingStream end-to-end IPTV solution to support its "BBTV" IPTV service, which launched on July 1, 2005. Softbank BB expects its service can change the way consumers in Japan watch television by providing many more choices and many more features at a more affordable price.
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 offers service providers the scalability, reliability, and bandwidth efficiency to support new services including broadcast TV, Network PVR (n-PVR), Video on Demand (VoD), and Near Video on Demand (NVoD) over existing network infrastructures. This results 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 design operations in the United States, China, Korea and India. UTStarcom is a FORTUNE 1000 company.

For more information about UTStarcom, visit the company's Web site at www.utstar.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release includes forward-looking statements, including the foregoing statements regarding the expectation that the new brand name of the Company's IPTV solution will better articulate its functionality, the anticipated ability of the Company's IPTV solution to enable service providers to offer a variety of streaming applications over a single platform, the anticipated ability of the solution to efficiently parcel segments to servers at the edge of the network and deliver the segments sequentially to users on demand, the anticipated enhancement in the user's TV watching experience due to the solution, the anticipated ability of the solution to allow telecommunications operators and broadband service providers to deliver high quality TV and on-demand entertainment programming over IP networks, the anticipated scalability, reliability and bandwidth efficiency of the solution and its ability to support new services over existing network infrastructures, the anticipated opportunities for increased revenues, new services and improved customer satisfaction and retention the solution may present to service providers, the expectation that the solution will allow service providers to parcel out and store programs directly at the network edge for dynamic delivery to the subscriber, the anticipated positive impact of the solution on content delivery, storage requirements and network congestion, and Softbank BB's expectation regarding the positive impact of the Company's IPTV solution on broadband services in Japan. These statements are forward-looking in nature and subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. These risk factors include rapidly changing technology, the changing nature of global telecommunications markets, the termination of significant contracts, the direction and results of future research and development efforts, evolving product and applications standards, reduction or delays in system deployments, product transitions, changes in demand for and acceptance of the Company's products, general adverse economic conditions, and trends and uncertainties such as changes in government regulation and licensing requirements. The Company also refers readers to the risk factors identified in its latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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