Telecommunications and wireless services provider UTStarcom has won the bid for Jinan Radio & TV Network Center's equipment purchase project to become the center's exclusive broadband solution provider and thus step up its network upgrading efforts. The project will use EPON technology to deploy wireless network services in residential apartments and office buildings. After deployment [...]

UTStarcom has entered into an agreement with United States government agencies, agreeing to pay a [...]

Hong Liang Lu, one of the early founders of the business that became UTStarcom Inc., has stepped down as executive chairman of the board of directors, though he will continue to serve in some capacity on the board.
Peter Blackmore will continue as president and chief executive officer. Thomas J. Toy, currently lead director, will assume [...]

Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation has elected Charles Xue to the company's board, effective July 20, 2009, and one of the company's founders has thrown in the management towel.
Xue, the original founder of both UTStarcom and ChinaEdu, will serve as an independent director and on the audit, compensation and nomination committees of the [...]

UTStarcom China has disclosed to local media that the company will focus its human resources on key departments like sales, service and R&D and will retain about 2000 staff for major markets including China and India.
UTStarcom will take four major measures for this restructuring — business integration, service integration, market integration and resource integration — [...]

Vacationers in China's sunny Hainan province will soon have more opportunity to take their multimedia with them to the beach, thanks to an agreement inked between UTStarcom and Hainan Telecom.
This first large-scale mobile TV system in China will adopt UTStarcom's end-to-end RollingStream platform. The deployment is scheduled to go live on May 17, 2009, as [...]

UTStarcom (UTSI) reported its unaudited financial results for the second quarter of 2008 and said net sales for the second quarter of 2008 were USD633 million as compared to USD538 million in the second quarter of 2007, representing an 18% increase.

Nineteen TD terminal manufacturers, including foreign brands Motorola (MOT) and Philips, have obtained a network access license from China's Ministry of Information Industry for a total of 29 types of TD terminals, including 24 mobile phones and five data cards.