UTStarcom Provides mVision IPTV Solution to Telemar in Brazil for Successful Trial of Triple Play Services

UTStarcom Provides mVision IPTV Solution to Telemar in Brazil for Successful Trial of Triple Play Services

ALAMEDA, Calif., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UTStarcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: UTSI), a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, today announced that the company provided its mVision end-to-end IPTV solution for a recently completed trial of triple play services in Brazil with Telemar, which will make IP-based television and multimedia services available to its customers utilizing the IP protocol. Today, Telemar offers 15 million fixed lines of telephony service, 8.1 million cellular lines and almost 700,000 Internet lines to the Brazilian market.

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"The idea is to offer television channels and video on demand, where the viewers access the desired film at their convenience. Unlike cable TV channels, the new system acts like an interactive TV, making segmented content available, such as entertainment, education, professional training, videoconferencing services, amongst others," said Gilberto Sotto Mayor Jr., Telemar's marketing director.

"The UTStarcom platform, which is already in testing with a content provider in Rio de Janeiro, is feature-rich and has shown adequate levels of quality and reliability in this trial," Mayor added.

"The trial with Telemar, utilizing our mVision IPTV solution, consisted of approximately 2,000 users," said Hitoshi Nagano, area vice president for Brazil at UTStarcom. "UTStarcom's mVision IPTV solution, which features a Network Personal Video Recorder (nPVR), is designed to allow the viewer to access a virtually unlimited amount of digitally recorded and stored content, while also pausing, fast forwarding and rewinding live broadcast television. UTStarcom and its integrator, Promon, are making their Rio de Janeiro-based teams available to Telemar to offer all the support necessary for the carrier to make the trial a success."

The project could be commercially accessible to subscribers by 2006.

About UTStarcom's mVision

UTStarcom's mVision 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. mVision offers service providers the scalability, reliability, and bandwidth efficiency to support new services such as broadcast TV, Network PVR (n-PVR), Video on Demand (VoD), and Near Video on Demand (NVoD) over existing network infrastructures. This results in new revenues, new services, and improved customer satisfaction and retention.

UTStarcom's mVision IPTV system is currently being deployed by Softbank BB in Japan and DSSI/Beyond Communications in the southeastern United States.

About Promon

Founded in 1960, Promon is a Brazilian company that belongs exclusively to its professionals. Its operations primarily take in the planning, integration and implantation of enterprises and businesses for the economy's infrastructure sectors. Prominent amongst them are energy, oil and gas, industries, civil works, telecommunications and information technology.

Four companies run the organization's operational activities: Promon Engenharia, Promon Tecnologia (both wholly-owned subsidiaries), Tropico (a joint venture with Fundacao CPqD and Cisco Systems) and UTE Bahia (a joint venture with Ecoluz Consultores Associados). Also part of the group are Fundacao Promon de Previdencia Social, Fundacao Cultural Promon and the Instituto Razao Social, an entity maintained in association wit the Instituto Camargo Correa e Gerdau.

Promon today has about 650 professionals. The presence of Promon on the Exame magazine Guide to The Best Companies for You to Work For in all of its editions shows the strength of its human resource management practices and the success of its business model.

http://www.promon.com.br/

About Grupo Telemar

Grupo Telemar is the largest private corporation in Brazil focused in offering integrated solutions. It provides local voice, long distance, mobility, data communications, and Internet services in Brazil. The company also owns the license to operate fixed telephony services, and provides mobile telecommunications with Oi, a cellular operator located in the region I of the Brazilian market which encompasses 16 states in the North, Northwest and Southwest regions of that country.

Moreover, the company has had nationwide presence with data communications and long distance services since June 2002 when it anticipated its expansion goals and obtained authorization to serve the long distance market throughout Brazil under the "31" prefix launched regionally in 1999.

Grupo Telemar operates under one brand in the Internet and mobile markets as "Oi Internet", launched in February 2005.

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 http://www.utstar.com/ .

Forward-Looking Statements

The foregoing statements regarding, without limitation, the anticipated availability of IP-based television and multimedia services to Telemar subscribers in Brazil and the timing of such availability, the features, characteristics, scalability and reliability of UTStarcom's mVision solution and its ability to generate potential new revenues and services and improve customer satisfaction and retention, are forward-looking in nature and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. These factors include rapidly changing technology, the changing nature of the telecommunications market, including that of Brazil, evolving product and application standards, changes or delays in product introductions and deployments, possible market downturns in Brazil and worldwide, the termination of significant contracts, partnerships or alliances, including those with Telemar and Promon, and other uncertainties, such as changes in government regulation and licensing requirements. UTStarcom also refers readers to the risk factors identified in its 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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CONTACT: Company Contact: Chesha Kamieniecki, Senior Manager of Investor Relations, +1-510-749-1560, or Veronica Henley, Marketing Manager, CALA Region, +1-954-364-3303, vhenley@utstar.com, both of UTStarcom, Inc., Press Contact: Stephanie Gallagher of Engage PR, +1-510-388-3287, stephanie@engagepr.com, or Veronica Cassavia, S2 Comunicacao Integrada, veronicac@s2.com.br, +11-3457-0226, both for UTStarcom, Inc.

Web site: http://www.utstar.com/ http://www.promon.com.br/

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