UTStarcom announces that the company's award-winning RollingStream end-to-end IPTV solution currently supports more than 310,500 live subscribers in 19 commercial deployments with both China Telecom and China Netcom with a total system capacity of nearly 625,000 subscribers between the two operators.

According to a recent IDC report titled "China IPTV 2007-2011 Forecast and Analysis" released in March 2007, the APeJ (Asia/Pacific excluding Japan) region is the most rapidly growing IPTV region in the world with the largest equipment market share. IDC predicts that APeJ will have 29.7 million IPTV users by 2010. Within the APeJ region, China is the most promising IPTV market with forecasts of approximately 10.5 million subscribers by 2010 and 14.9 million by 2011.

"With respect to commercial use, from Harbin, the first city of IPTV commercial use in China in May 2005, to IPTV commercial use in Shanghai in September 2006, the UTStarcom RollingStream system is undoubtedly the most mature IPTV system for commercial use in China by the end of 2006," the report states. "In addition, its close cooperation with content operators such as Shanghai Media Group also helps it gain advantages in the equipment market competition."

At ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong in December 2006, UTStarcom's RollingStream IPTV solution was selected the best IPTV solution worldwide by Communications Weekly, a leading publication under the guidance of the Ministry of Information Industry in China. UTStarcom was also awarded the Development Contribution Award for its efforts for IPTV standardization in China.