Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and
wireless broadband solutions, and Aria, the only telecom operator in
Italy with a national WiMAX license, today announced an agreement to
deploy Mobile WiMAX network throughout Italy. Under the agreement, Aria
will build a network at the 3.5 GHz frequency to offer broadband
services to all 21 Italian regions using Alvarion’s 4Motion Mobile WiMAX
solution incorporating the WiMAX Forum® Certified™ BreezeMAX platform.
Given Italy’s 58 million highly-dense population, WiMAX is the most
economical and high-performance technology to deliver 4G broadband to
businesses and residential subscribers in a wide geographic area.
Alvarion’s 4Motion is an advanced and field-proven solution for
delivering innovative WiMAX services for a range of broadband
applications in rural, suburban and urban environments.
“At Aria, we are committed to empowering businesses and consumers to
realize the impact of high bandwidth, quality data and voice services,
and we have full confidence in Alvarion’s innovative WiMAX platform and
services to ensure we deliver on this promise,” said Davidi Gilo, CEO of
Aria. “Alvarion’s 4Motion solution will enable us to bring highly
advanced broadband services throughout the country.”
Aria currently holds nationwide WiMAX licenses at the 3.5 GHz frequency
bands in Italy. By using Alvarion’s Open WiMAX solution, Aria will be
able to build a state of the art network with exceptional coverage to
meet the growing demand for broadband services in the country.
“We are pleased to be selected for another large WiMAX project through
our partnership with Aria, one of Italy’s leading telecommunications
providers,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO, Alvarion Ltd. “This
contract confirms Alvarion’s Mobile WiMAX solution as the most advanced
solution in the market, and our leading position as a long-term partner
for WiMAX. Our cutting edge technology, proven business model and
tailored solutions will provide the ultimate broadband services to the
consumers and businesses in Italy.”
WiMAX is the only 4G technology commercially available today that
enables mass broadband services. With a thriving ecosystem, WiMAX
continues to evolve globally through multiple differentiated mobile and
broadband wireless offerings.
About Aria S.P.A.
Aria S.P.A., founded in 2005, became one of the most important Italian
WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provide) in only 2 years. In October
2007, thanks to new partners entry and new company structure, Aria
became more competitive. In January 2008, Aria won the auction of the
WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) 3.5GHz radio
frequencies in all Italian regions.
About Alvarion
Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR) is the largest WiMAX pure-player with the most
extensive WiMAX customer base and over 250 commercial deployments around
the globe. Committed to growing the WiMAX market, the company offers
solutions for a wide range of frequency bands supporting a variety of
business cases. Through its OPEN WiMAX strategy, superior IP and OFDMA
know-how, and ability to deploy end-to-end turnkey WiMAX projects,
Alvarion is shaping the new wireless broadband experience (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: potential impact on our business of the spread of the U.S.
credit crisis and current global recession; 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, services provisioning, 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.
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