UTStarcom
The company was founded in 1995 as a merger between Unitech and Starcom Networks to form UTStarcom. Unitech was founded in 1991 by Hong Liang Lu (), a Chinese entrepreneur with a BS degree from UC Berkeley, as Unitech Telecom. It was focused on the telecommunications markets in China, Japan, United States and India, with its initial presence in China established in 1993 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Starcom Networks was founded in 1991 by Ying Wu () and a team who had worked together at the Bell Labs in New Jersey, United States. After several years of trying to expand its business globally, UTStarcom launched the Personal Handy-phone System, also known as the Personal Handy-phone System, a technology originally developed in Japan. In March 2000, UTStarcom went public on the NASDAQ. In July 2008, UTStarcom sold its Personal Communications Division to AIG.
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UTStarcom () is a Chinese global telecom infrastructure provider headquartered in Beijing. It is listed on the NASDAQ since 2000.