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ENTEL
Deploying First WiMAX National Network in Chile Using Alvarion's
BreezeMAX™ Solution
Alvarion Ltd.
May 22, 2006
BreezeMAX 3500 to Add Capacity,
Voice Services for Small and Medium Companies and Corporate Users in 14
Cities
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading
provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced that telecommunications company, ENTEL Chile,
is deploying the first WiMAX network in the country using its
award-winning platform, BreezeMAX 3500. ENTEL will use its WiMAX network
to offer voice and data services and extend broadband coverage to small
and medium companies and corporate users in 14 cities. ENTEL’s decision
follows extensive field testing and evaluation. In previous years, ENTEL
deployed Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS® XL system to provide residential
broadband data services of 30,000 customer links throughout the country.
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“We are excited to be the first operator to offer WiMAX data and voice
services in Chile,” said Richard B?chi, CEO of ENTEL Chile. “We have
already deployed 22 base stations and our network will be completed by
the end of the first half of 2006. We chose Alvarion after we tested
various competitive systems and we are confident of the performance of
our network that will allow us to offer various services specially to
small and medium companies."
BreezeMAX™ is Alvarion’s WiMAX platform designed from the ground up
according to the IEEE 802.16 standards and uses OFDM technology for
advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality. Its carrier-class
design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable
carriers to offer triple play broadband services to thousands of
subscribers in a single base station. Since its launch in mid-2004,
BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 150 installations in
more than 30 countries around the world.
“We are delighted that Entel, a major customer of our BreezeACCESS XL
products, has decided to extend its relationship with Alvarion and
continue to leverage our leading technology and market position,” said
Tzvika Friedman, CEO and President of Alvarion. “Entel’s selection of
BreezeMAX is another example of a telecommunications company investing
in WiMAX to expand its service portfolio. As we have seen in our many
WiMAX installations elsewhere in South America and worldwide, WiMAX
allows all types of carriers and innovative challengers to join the
growing ranks of broadband providers. This fits in with our vision of
broadband mass deployment enabled by WiMAX technology and we are
thrilled to be leading this trend with our systems.”
About ENTEL Chile
Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A. is the largest listed
Telecommunication Company in Chile with Ch$ 1,133,693 million in assets
and Ch$ 766,362 million in annual revenues reported in December 2005.
The Company provides mobile, Data, Internet, local telephony, long
distance and integration services. Entel has two nationwide fixed
wireless local telephony licenses of 50 MHz each, in the 3,5 GHz
frequency band. The company also has operations in Central America and
Peru.
Entel is listed on the Chilean Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Comercio de
Santiago) under the ticker symbol ENTEL and its headquarters are based
in Santiago, Chile.
For more information, visit Entel’s web site at www.entel.cl.
About Alvarion
With more than 2 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion is
the worldwide leader in wireless broadband providing systems to
carriers, ISPs and private network operators, and also in extending
coverage of GSM and CDMA mobile networks to developing countries and
other hard to serve areas.
Leading the WiMAX revolution, Alvarion has the most extensive
deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry covering the
full range of frequency bands with both fixed and mobile solutions.
Alvarion’s products enable the delivery of business and residential
broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base
station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection,
public safety communications, and mobile voice and data. Alvarion works
with several global OEM providers and more than 200 local partners to
support its diverse global customer base in solving their last-mile
challenges.
As a wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and
delivering innovations for more than ten years from core technology
developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Leveraging
its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and
experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, the Company's prominent work
in the WiMAX Forum is focused on increasing widespread adoption of
standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading
the entire industry to mobile WiMAX solutions.
For more information, visit Alvarion’s World Wide Web site at www.alvarion.com
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meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on the current
expectations or beliefs of Alvarion’s management and are subject to a
number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those described in the forward -looking
statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual
results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking
statements: inability to further identify, develop and achieve success
for new products, services and technologies; increased competition and
its effect on pricing, spending, third-party relationships and revenues;
as well as the in ability to establish and maintain relationships with
commerce, advertising, marketing, and technology providers and other
risks detailed from time to time in filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
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