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Neotel Brings High Speed Broadband to
Macedonia using Alvarion’s Mobile WiMAX™ Solution
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Alvarion® Ltd.
September 8, 2008
Nationwide deployment with Alvarion’s 4Motion® solution for enhanced
coverage and capacity
Tel Aviv, Israel -- Alvarion® Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading
provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, today announced
that Neotel, a leading company in electronic communication, is deploying
Mobile WiMAX™ throughout Macedonia using Alvarion’s 4Motion solution.
The network, operating in the 3.5 GHz frequency, will provide business
and residential users with advanced broadband data and voice services,
offering high quality and easily available Internet access at affordable
rates. Alvarion’s partner for this WiMAX project is Neocom.
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Adopting
WiMAX as its preferred technology, Neotel plans to launch the network
services to the general public in September 2008 and complete deployment
of the Macedonian commercial network by December 2009, resulting in full
data and voice service delivery. Neotel is the first WISP (Wireless
Internet Service Provider) in Macedonia that operates a licensed WiMAX
frequency band countrywide, and offers competitive package deals for the
various services in its portfolio.
“As a customer oriented company, we are pleased to offer our subscribers
the advantages of Mobile WiMAX and allow them quick and simple access to
voice and broadband data,” said Trajce Cerepnalkovski CEO of Neotel.
“Looking for maximum investment protection we selected Alvarion’s
technology, knowing that our investment in its high performance
equipment will enable continuous and reliable connectivity, answering
the growing needs of our customers on both a personal and business
level. The residents of Macedonia will be able to choose the best
service package tailored to their specific needs.”
“It is rewarding to be recognized by the market for our 802.16e
technology leadership, and we are proud to be chosen through a
competitive bidding process by an innovative company such as Neotel once
again,” said Tzvika Friedman, President and CEO of Alvarion. “Using our
4Motion solution, Neotel can offer mobile Internet service to residents
at competitive prices and short installation times. Mobile WiMAX is the
best technology to deliver higher capacity and extended coverage through
a wireless medium.”
Alvarion’s end-to-end 4Motion solution is the
foundation of the company’s OPEN™ WiMAX ecosystem, which combines
BreezeMAX® and other best-in-class systems. A complete all-IP Mobile
WiMAX solution, 4Motion is designed to enable service providers to offer
subscribers fixed and mobile personal broadband services, comprised of
core network, radio and IP networking elements and end-devices, anytime,
anywhere.
About Neotel
Neotel is one of the leading companies on the
electronic communication market in Skopje and Macedonia. We started as
Internet Service Provider in 2004 and today our activities have spread
throughout various fields concerning telecommunication, Fix Voice
operation, computer networks, web and mail hosting, security and privacy
in the Internet world, audio and video streaming. Our goal is to supply
high quality and available communication services for clients in The
Republic of Macedonia and abroad. We are particularly proud with the
flexibility of our services and the adaptability on each costumer
individually, through creative solutions that our professional team of
engineers can offer. Our goals on the market are business clients and
companies, and soon our services will be adapted for the home users as
well. Neotel works with professional optical and wireless network in
Skopje and The Republic of Macedonia, based on the most modern
technology. The telecommunication equipment under which we operate is
produced and services by the leading companies on that field worldwide.
The technical support we offer is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
(www.neotel.com.mk).
About Alvarion
Alvarion is the largest WiMAX pure player ensuring
customer long-term success with fixed and mobile solutions for the full
range of frequency bands. Based on its OPEN™ WiMAX strategy, the company
offers superior wireless broadband infrastructure and an all-IP
best-of-breed ecosystem in cooperation with its strategic partners.
Alvarion has delivered over 200 commercial WiMAX deployments worldwide
(www.alvarion.com).
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
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: the failure of the market for WIMAX products to develop as
anticipated; Alvarion’s inability to capture market share in the
expected growth of the WIMAX market as anticipated, due to, among other
things, competitive reasons or failure to execute in our sales,
marketing or manufacturing objectives; 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 inability to establish and
maintain relationships with commerce, advertising, marketing, and
technology providers and other risks detailed from time to time in the
Company’s 20-F Annual Report Risk Factors section as well as in other
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Information set forth in this press release pertaining to third parties
has not been independently verified by Alvarion and is based solely on
publicly available information or on information provided to Alvarion by
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incorporated by reference in any filing made by Alvarion with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, which this press release will be a
part of.
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