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China Telecom to Offer IPTV
Services in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Powered By UTStarcom's
RollingStream End-to-End IPTV System
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PR Newswire
July 18, 2007
Alameda, CA -- UTStarcom, Inc., 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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