UTStar colours up

UTStarcom has unveiled a colour screen handset for mobile WiFi users. Our RabbitMobile is an F1000 fromRabbitpoint; the new one is an F3000 and you can use it on Mobiboo, which claims to be the UK’s first commercial VoIP WiFi network operator.
UTS's other big product line is in IP DSLAMs. Aren't there signs the DSL broadband project is running out of steam? Not for David King, UTStarcom SVP international sales - he says the company has shipped 1 million IP DSLAMs in eastern Europe where it is concentrating on altnets like GTS (see our upcoming CEE telecoms supplement), and tens of thousands of lines equivalent in fixed wireless systems in Africa and central America.
These are tier 2 regions right now, but there's some bigger news to come in India, where King says to watch for a $70 million deal in broadband access lines. He says UTStar will build its own manufacturing facility there.
If operators want to build fibre networks, UTS is developing an FTTN system for SBB (SoftBank)
China? There's still confusion over 3G, but UTStar has IPTV systems in place as well as fixed mobile networks called PAS (sort of PHS).
The fixed wireless data stuff is great according to King. OK its CDMA-based and there's a damper on those networks right now, but that's a royalties issue that'll get sorted out between mobile operators and their IPR supplier.