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SIGNATURES
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ALVARION
LTD.
Date:
July 18th,
2007 By: /s/ Efrat
Makov
Name:
Efrat
Makov
Title:
CFO
EXHIBIT
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Contacts
Efrat
Makov,
CFO Claudia
Gatlin, Investor
Relations
+972-3-645-6252
+212-830-9080
+760-517-3187 claudia.gatlin@alvarion.com
Efrat.makov@alvarion.com
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MTN
Uganda Selects Alvarion’s WiMAX Solution for
Nationwide
Deployment
Pan-African
Tier-1 Operator Provides Extended Broadband Services
across
Uganda
with Alvarion’s BreezeMAX
Tel
Aviv, Israel, July 18, 2007 — Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the
world’s leading provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband solutions, today
announced that MTN Uganda, the leading mobile telecommunications operator in
Uganda, has chosen its award-winning BreezeMAXTM for the
3.5 GHz
frequency, as part of a nationwide deployment for providing extended data
services to corporate, business and residential users. The main deployment
project launched in the capital and largest urban settlement of Uganda –
Kampala, is planned to be followed by additional network deployments in 30
other
cities across the country.
“After
a
thorough vendor selection process, we chose Alvarion for its market leadership,
ability to work with large global mobile operators, and previous successful
WiMAX installations across Africa,” said Noel Meier, CEO of MTN Uganda. Being a
leading African global mobile service provider, and second national operator
(SNO) in Uganda, we support wireless development and are looking forward to
future projects with Alvarion as we expand broadband services to our many
subscribers. Alvarion’s end-to-end BreezeMAX radio access network (RAN),
combined with its complete all-IP OPENTM WiMAX ecosystem,
offers our customers nationwide network coverage and increased capacity at
affordable rates.”
Providing
a turn-key solution, Alvarion is working in cooperation with its leading African
partners Dimension Data, an IT services and solutions provider, and Plessey,
a
leading pan-African telecommunications solutions supplier, to provide MTN Uganda
with the BreezeMAX platform’s versatile and self-installable indoor CPE
capabilities.
“We
are
excited that MTN Uganda selected us to provide top quality broadband services
to
all types of users throughout the region,” said Tzvika Friedman, President and
CEO of Alvarion. “Africa is a fast-growing region and we are confident that MTN
will benefit from our operator-centric OPEN WiMAX approach, BreezeMAX’s advanced
features, and high-quality of service as they strategically move towards
nationwide broadband coverage and improved WiMAX economics.”
BreezeMAX,
Alvarion’s award winning WiMAX platform, complies with IEEE 802.16 standards and
uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight functionality. Its
carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service, enabling
carriers to offer triple play broadband services to thousands of subscribers
via
a single base station. Since its launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been
successfully deployed in over 350 networks, in more than 100 countries around
the world.
About
MTN Uganda
In
1998,
MTN Uganda (www.mtn.co.ug) launched commercial services in Uganda, just
six months after acquiring and signing of the license. MTN has since grown
to be
the leading Telecommunications Company in Uganda servicing in excess of
1,900,000 customers with a market share in excess of 60% in a 3 player market.
The license required that MTN provide 89,000 lines in the first five years
of
operation. MTN Uganda's policy of affordable tariffs and availability of
services, backed by distribution and innovative marketing, opened up a broad
market to telecommunications. As a result, Uganda's tele-density increased
exponentially. Before MTN launched its services, the tele-density in Uganda
was
one of the lowest in Africa at 0.27%. Today MTN has contributed to the growth
in
Tele-density in Uganda of about 11%. MTN Uganda is uniquely positioned to
provide fixed and mobile solutions to the market as a result of its investment
in various access platforms ranging from fibre/copper to the door, CDMA, GSM
and
mow WiMAX.
About
Dimension Data
Dimension
Data (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT services and solutions provider helps clients
plan, build, support and manage their network and IT infrastructures. Dimension
Data applies its expertise in networking, converged communications, security,
operating environments, storage and contact center technologies and its unique
skills in consulting, integration and managed services to create customized
client solutions (www.dimensiondata.com).
About
Plessey
Plessey
is a leading supplier of telecommunications solutions to the African continent.
The company has a presence in 19 African countries with regional offices
currently in eight countries: South Africa, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mauritius; and plans to open an
office in Madagascar shortly. Headquartered in South Africa, Plessey employs
over 250 people across South Africa, Nigeria and East Africa.
About
Alvarion
With
more
than 3 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion
(www.alvarion.com) is the world’s leading provider of innovative wireless
broadband network solutions enabling Personal Broadband to improve lifestyles
and productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other
services.
Alvarion
is leading the market to Open WiMAX solutions with 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 personal mobile broadband, 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.
As
a
wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and delivering innovations
for over 10 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 the widespread
adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and
leading the entire industry to Open WiMAX solutions.
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 such third parties for
inclusion in this press release. The web sites appearing in this press release
are not and will not be included or incorporated by reference in any filing
made
by Alvarion with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which this press
release will be a part of.
You
may
request Alvarion's future press releases or a complete Investor Kit by
contacting Kika Stayerman, kika.stayerman@alvarion.com or
+972.3.767.4159.
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