UTStarcom Announces First Contracts with India's Tata Teleservices

UTStarcom has signed its first contracts to deploy 56,000 lines of its AN-2000 platform with Tata Teleservices, the largest private basic service operator in India. Financial terms were not disclosed. UTStarcom has signed five other basic service operators in India as customers and had over 600,000 lines of its AN-2000 multi-service access platform deployed as of the end of 2002. UTStarcom also cited a strong interest for its Personal Access System (PAS) in India. MTNL, the incumbent PTT operator in New Delhi, has deployed and commercialized a 5,000 line PAS trial system in three areas in south Delhi. In addition, trials of the PAS system are being conducted with two large private basic service operators.
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