UTStarcom announced a growing sales association with Logicalis. The collaboration will help accelerate the growth of UTStarcom's IPTV product offerings and broadband access solutions to tier-one and tier-two service providers in South America.

This growing relationship between UTStarcom and Logicalis benefits both companies by targeting new sales opportunities within the South American region via the combined customer base and managed service offerings. Additionally, both companies will collaborate to help ensure the quality deployment of the infrastructure products and services. There is also a sales pipeline identified with countries throughout the Southern Cone, indicating potential areas of additional growth for this agreement.

According to the agreement, UTStarcom's portfolio of solutions will be marketed and distributed through Logicalis' sales force in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay and Paraguay. UTStarcom will also support the sales of Logicalis' solutions throughout the Americas region.

UTStarcom's broadband solutions enable the deployment of IP-based, high-speed Internet, voice, data and multimedia services over wireline and optical networks for service providers such as Bharat Sanchar Nigam and United Telecoms Ltd. In addition, UTStarcom's RollingStream IPTV system provides customers with advanced video services such as interactive television, digital signage, mobile TV and distance learning programs. UTStarcom has announced IPTV deployments with Bharti Airtel, BSNL/Aksh, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam/Aksh and United Telecoms Limited in India; China Unicom and China Telecom in China; Sri Lanka Telecom in Sri Lanka; Softbank in Japan, Brasil Telecom in Latin America and Markwell in Taiwan. UTStarcom is the IPTV market share leader in both China and India. UTStarcom is also the market share leader in India's broadband market.