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Arobase Telecom Of The Ivory Coast Orders Alvarion's WIMAX-READY Network

BreezeMAX™ 3500 to Provide Corporate and Smaller Business Users with Broadband Services

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 15, 2005 — Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced that Arobase Telecom, the Ivory Coast’s second national operator, has placed orders for BreezeMAX 3500, Alvarion’s WiMAX-ready platform. Upon its commercial launch, the operator will supply broadband data and voice services to corporate and SME subscribers in the nation’s capital city of Abidjan.

“We have found that wireless broadband is a very cost effective complement to our fiber network. The business community in Abidjan, a city of approximately 5 million inhabitants, is hungry for broadband,” said Gervais Assie Amani , CEO of Arobase Telecom. “As an emerging operator, we enjoy the rapid roll-out of Alvarion’s network and as the country’s innovative operator, we are excited about offering WiMAX services today to our subscribers. We have started to deploy our BreezeMAX network few months ago and received very positive feedback from our subscribers regarding the quality and reliability of the Internet connection. Presently, we are expanding our network with additional base stations and hundreds of CPEs to provide services in the whole Abidjan areas.”

BreezeMAX™ is an OFDM platform with advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality designed for operators to offer broadband IP-based data and voice services. Its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer multi-services to thousands of subscribers in a single cell. BreezeMAX networks are already installed in more than 30 countries worldwide.

“Emerging carriers have already learned that going with our BreezeMAX™ network affords them an edge. Especially economically beneficial for areas with little existing telecommunications infrastructure, it is no wonder that Alvarion’s WiMAX-ready system has been installed already in more than 30 countries around the world,” said Mr. Zvi Slonimsky, CEO of Alvarion. “We are pleased to strengthen Arobase’s position as a responsive carrier serving the increasing demand to provide data connectivity to businesses and universities.”

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Arobase Telecom

Arobase Telecom is a telecommunication company and at the same time, a group of New Technologies of Information and Communication (NTIC) development. Arobase Telecom builds in Côte d’Ivoire a telecommunication network-support of high-flow optical fiber on all the territory extent. It will be a question of netting the whole country on nearly 13,000 kilometres. The second network operator of Côte d’Ivoire, it has signed a 20 years Convention of Concession with the government since July 31, 2002. Such concession authorizes Arobase Telecom Company to build and exploit this telecommunications network by providing the exclusive services reserved to the State, in particular fixed telephony. Arobase Telecom network is the first telecommunications network of the last generation, entirely built with optical fiber in West Africa. It is a multi-service network with a very high flow placing at the disposal of all the fields of industry a technological infrastructure of last generation and supporting the integration of New Technologies of Information and Communication as well as new services of telecommunications with strong value such as high-flow Internet, video monitoring (security), telemedicine, educational television, videoconference and others for which the needs are growing.

Limited company incorporated under the law registered in Côte d’Ivoire, with a capital of F CFA 1 000 000 000 (one Billion) entirely held by Ivorian shareholders such as FENACOOPEC (micro finance leader), AROBASE TELECOM is Managed by a Chairman and Managing Director, Mr. AMANI Assié Gervais and employs 150 persons.

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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