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Leading Wireless Provider, Midwest Wireless, Uses Alvarion's Solution To Provide Wireless Broadband Services

Leveraging assets, major US wireless company finds BreezeACCESS solution a logical fit
 
Tel – Aviv, Israel, and Carlsbad, US July 17, 2002 – Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), a leading provider of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) solutions today announced that Midwest Wireless, a major U.S. wireless company, has deployed a BreezeACCESSÔ fixed wireless network to deliver its ClearWave High-Speed Wireless Internet service over 3,500 square miles throughout its rural Minnesota service areas.

With over 250,000 wireless phone service customers, Midwest is a leading wireless carrier in the U.S. With a desire to expand its revenues and to bring affordable broadband services to rural Minnesota, in 2001 Midwest set out to leverage its extensive infrastructure – including tower properties, RF expertise, billing structures, and network backbone – as the basis for a new business of providing wireless broadband connectivity. After trial testing other options, including WiFi, Midwest selected Alvarion’s mature and stable BreezeACCESS platform, which was designed specifically to support secure high-quality broadband services in the license-exempt bands. BreezeACCESS proved more robust, due to its interference-resistant modulation and rugged, carrier-grade form factor.

Commenting on Midwest Wireless’s choice of Alvarion, its President, Dennis Miller, commented, “We chose Alvarion because of its demonstrated ability to deliver consistent high quality services. Our reputation for excellence demands that any service we deliver – voice or data -- be top quality, all the time. Introducing ClearWave using BreezeACCESS equipment is very cost-effective because we are able to reuse so many of our assets in deploying the new infrastructure. We are grateful to Alvarion for having helped us bring high-speed Internet service into areas where it is so critically needed.”

Amir Rosenzweig, President of Alvarion, Inc., added, “We are delighted that Alvarion products are delivering such value to Midwest and to its customers. For cellular providers like Midwest, it is very cost-effective to deploy complementary wireless broadband networks that satisfy customers and bring in additional revenues. For the people and businesses they serve, affordable broadband services lead to a broad range of favorable social and economic consequences that derive from better connectivity. We are proud to be the leading supplier of broadband wireless systems to rural operators, and continue to target the market segment as a tremendous source of potential growth.”

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About Alvarion
Alvarion is a premier provider of solutions based on Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) used by telecom carriers, service providers, and enterprises worldwide. Alvarion systems provide Internet access and voice and data services in the last mile, cellular network feeding, building-to-building and wireless local area network (LAN) connectivity.

Alvarion offers the broadest range of BWA solutions by market segment and frequency band, designed to address all carriers’ and service providers’ business models. With its combined market experience, strong customer base, diversified distribution channels and field-proven deployments, Alvarion is a leading BWA pure play provider for every end user profile, from residential subscribers to business customers.

About Midwest Wireless
Mankato-based Midwest Wireless is a leading provider of telecommunications services operating in 68 counties of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. The company’s wireless phone service offerings include ClearlyDigital and Realm. In addition to ClearWave, Midwest Wireless is currently exploring a multitude of other data services.

For more information about Midwest Wireless visit www.midwestwireless.com.

This press release may contain 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: 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 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

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