IPMobile Announces Agreement With Oki Electric Industries for the Supply of TD-CDMA Infrastructure

Tokyo, September 21, 2006 - Today, IPMobile announced the finalization of agreements with Oki Electric Industries (OKI) on providing base station infrastructure for their mobile broadband wireless service.

Oki is a respected leader in IP network integration, and will support IPMobile in building the full TD-CDMA (Note1) network, including the base stations, the IP core network and the central control facilities. OKI will procure equipment manufactured by UTStarcom (Note2), and will provide IPMobile with network integration, maintenance and operational services.

In preparation of launching full commercial services in the spring of 2007, IPMobile plans to place further major orders for equipments and services, following this initial order.

IPMobile will work together with OKI and UTStarcom to promote mobile broadband services using TD-CDMA technology.

Note 1: "TD-CDMA": A 3GPP standardized technology suited for wireless broadband data communication such as the Internet. Recently, New York City has adopted the technology as a part of their public safety initiative. Please refer to the release dated September 12 by the City of New York.

Note2: UTStarcom (Nasdaq UTSI) uses TD-CDMA technology provided by US-based IPWireless in their “Moving MediaTM” products. Products have been already deployed globally by companies such as UKBroadband (UK) and Accelerated Wireless AB (Sweden).

About IPMobile
IPMobile (established November 20, 2002) aims to commence the first wireless broadband service in Japan using TD-CDMA technology. IPMobile has been awarded spectrum in the 2010MHz – 2025MHz frequencies. For further information, please visit http://www.ipmobile.jp/english/index.html.

About IPWireless
IPWireless develops advanced next generation mobile broadband and multimedia technology based on global standards. The company's TD-CDMA technology has emerged as a leading global standard for wireless broadband, allowing operators to offer a spectrum of completely mobile, portable, or stationary end-to-end packet-based services with unmatched economics and performance. TD-CDMA has the highest average sector capacity, the strongest cell edge performance, and the lowest cost per megabit of any standards-based mobile technology available today, and is deployed by leading operators around the world including announced initiatives with T-Mobile, Orange, Sprint, and PCCW. The IPWireless Partner Program and chipsets allow device manufacturers and infrastructure vendors to very quickly bring innovative new TD-CDMA solutions to market. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.ipwireless.com

For further press information contact:

IPMobile
Keizo Kawamura
Mari Sendai
+03-3221-0303
pr@ipmobile.jp

IPWireless
Ed Howson
+44 (0) 7740 173 051
ehowson@ipwireless.com


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