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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

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 now 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.

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