UTStarcom Wins Multi-Million Dollar China Telecom Research Institute RFP for Manufacturing 5G Transport Network Routers

HANGZHOU, China, Jan. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UTStarcom (“UTStarcom” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:UTSI), a global telecommunications infrastructure provider, today announced that it has been selected as a major winner of the RFP "Self-developed STN-A Equipment Hardware Production and OEM Procurement Project" from Guangdong Research Institute of China Telecom Co., Ltd (“China Telecom Research Institute”) for manufacturing of disaggregated router hardware platforms intended for use on China Telecom’s STN network – China Telecom’s metropolitan area network, which is crucial for supporting its 5G mobile network services, as well as enterprise, broadband, cloud and other services. China Telecom Research Institute is an innovative professional technology research institution of China Telecom, one of the major telecom network operators in China.