UTStarcom CDMA handsets to be available in local market soon

Chye Hoon Pin, chief operating officer of Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Ltd, the owning company of CityCell, displays a UTStarcom CDMA handset as Jerry Soloway, senior vice president of UTStarcom Inc, looks on at the launch of UTStarcom handset in Dhaka yesterday. PHOTO: STAR

UTStarcom Inc, a US-based mobile handset manufacturing company, has entered into an agreement with CityCell, to sell its CDMA handsets in Bangladesh.

Under the deal, CityCell, the only CDMA mobile phone operator in the country, will market the UTStarcom C1160 CDMA1x w handsets with connection.

The new CDMA handsets will be available in the market soon, announced a senior official of UTStarcom Inc in Dhaka yesterday.

Speaking at a press conference, Jerry Soloway, senior vice president of UTStarcom Inc, said, "We will provide CityCell subscribers in Bangladesh with high quality and cost-effective CDMA handsets."

The mobile set will attract users who are interested in creative designs and simplicity, said Chye Hoon Pin, chief operating officer of Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Ltd, the owning company of CityCell.

He said CityCell will fix a competitive price for the new set.

UTStarcom is presently supplying its own CDMA handsets to North American, Latin American and Southeast Asian countries, said Vijay Yadav, managing director (South Asia) of UTStarcom Inc.

With a 1.3 inch DSTN LCD screen, the handset offers polyphonic ring tones and SMS predictive text capability, he added.