People - 25/03/06

At Siemens Communications, Eduardo Montes Perez (current Siemens Spain head) will replace Thomas Ganswindt as President; Heinz-Joachim Neuberger will become new CFO.

Nripendra Misra has been appointed as chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

At China Unicom, four directors resign (Li Qiuhong, William Lo, Liu Yunjie and Ye Fengping). Li Jianguo is appointed as executive director; Yang Xiaowei, Li Zhengmao, Li Gang and Zhang Junan will be executive directors and vice presidents.

UTStarcom announced the appointment of David King as its new senior vice president of sales and marketing, and Ari Bose to the position of Vice President and Chief Information Officer.

Aziz Khadbai has been named head of the new Converged Data Networks unit of Nortel.