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Ghana Telecom Extends Wired Network With Alvarion Broadband Wireless Equipment

eMGW™ Selected to Provide Broadband Data and Voice Services in 1.9 GHz

TEL AVIV, Israel, August 15, 2005 — Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced that Ghana Telecom, the country’s incumbent carrier, is using Alvarion’s eMGW product to expand its telecommunications network to provide high speed data and voice services to business and residential customers. Ghana Telecom has ordered more than $4 million of eMGW equipment since the beginning of 2005, to be shipped and deployed during the course of the year, enabling quick and easy connection to new customers to the existing access network infrastructure in the capital city of Accra where wired access infrastructure is limited.

“We have invested heavily in upgrading our switching and transmission network in recent years and our experience showed us that using Alvarion’s eMGW wireless product is the most effective way to extend our network to the entire population of Greater Accra,” said Jarle Rekve, Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Ghana Telecom. “We were impressed with the system’s quality of service for toll-quality voice and always-on, broadband data services. We hope to roll out the system in other cities in the near future.”

Alvarion’s eMGW is a highly cost-effective point-to-multi-point fixed wireless access system tailor-made for SOHO and residential users. eMGW provides fast Internet access, corporate access and carrier-class telephony in a single system and its innovative ‘hybrid-switching’ architecture uses circuit switching for toll quality voice and packet switching for fast data services to maximize spectrum and equipment utilization. Operating in a wide range of frequencies (800MHz - 5.7GHz), the MGW/eMGW product family has been successfully installed in over 60 countries.

“Our eMGW solution is a perfect fit for low teledensity areas requiring a system that rolls out voice and broadband data services to thousands more subscribers simply and cost-effectively,” said Tzvika Friedman, President and COO of Alvarion. “Ghana Telecom is yet another incumbent carrier that shares our vision of wireless broadband as the best economic alternative to traditional wired access, especially in areas lacking in telecommunications infrastructure. We look forward to expanding our relationship.”

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About Ghana Telecom

Ghana Telecom is Ghana's national telecom operator and the biggest operator in the country, providing fixed and mobile GSM services in Ghana. It was privatized in 1997, and is currently managed by Telenor Management Partner (TMP) of Norway. Ghana Telecom's mission is to provide reliable, efficient and flexible telecommunications services to its customers, with emphasis on innovation, technology and continuous manpower development, and meet stakeholders' expectation in attaining regional excellence.

About Alvarion

With more than 2 million units deployed in 130 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.

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