ALVARION TO SUPPLY WIRELESS VOICE AND DATA SOLUTION TO BOLIVIAN PHONE
COOPERATIVE UNDER A $7 MILLION FRAME AGREEMENT
Alvarion’s eMGW™ solution to enhance COTAS’ service offering
Tel-Aviv, Israel, April 21, 2004 - Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the leading
provider of wireless broadband solutions worldwide, today announced that
Cooperativa de Telecommunicaciones Santa Cruz Ltda. (COTAS), the second
largest phone cooperative in Bolivia, has signed a $7 million frame
agreement to deploy Alvarion’s eMGW broadband wireless access solution.
As a replacement for its current outdated WLL system, Alvarion’s 3.8 GHz
product will allow COTAS to provide enhanced voice and Internet access to
its customers in the greater Santa Cruz area beginning in the third quarter.
The Santa Cruz deployment, for which Alvarion has already received a $3.6
million purchase order, represents the first phase of COTAS deploying
broadband wireless to service customers throughout its service territory.
Hans Lohner Paz, CEO of COTAS, said, “By choosing Alvarion and its eMGW
product for our wireless network solution, we will now be able to reach many
new customers in suburban and rural Santa Cruz with not only traditional
toll-quality voice services, but also with Internet and data as well. This
demonstrates COTAS’ commitment to offer the latest in technology to improve
service to our customers.”
Alvarion’s eMGW solution was selected after an extensive review of suppliers
from all over the world. The eMGW provides fast Internet access, corporate
access and carrier-class telephony in a single system and its modular and
scalable configuration enables incremental growth based on customer demand
and a fast return on investment. Operating in a wide range of frequencies
(800MHz - 5.7GHz), the MGW/eMGW family of solutions have been successfully
installed in mass markets in over 60 countries.
Zvi Slonimsky, chief executive officer of Alvarion, added, “COTAS is a
progressive operator that is committed to improving its services. Alvarion
was chosen from 18 competing companies to be COTAS’ preferred wireless
vendor. COTAS’ deployment is yet another example of the important role that
BWA plays in improving the telecommunications infrastructure by enabling
high-speed data as well as voice.”
About Cotas:
COTAS Ltda. (Cooperativa de Telecomunicaciones Santa Cruz Ltda.) is the
second largest local phone cooperative in Bolivia. COTAS leads all other
cooperatives in call volume and in revenues. It offers a wide range of
telecommunications services such as Internet, ADSL, data transmission, pager
services, long distance calls, public phones, cable TV and of course local
calls. In Santa Cruz, COTAS is the leader in every service it provides.
COTAS was founded in 1960 with 2400 lines. At this moment COTAS has 178,000
digital landlines.
About Alvarion
With over 1.5 million units deployed in 130 countries, Alvarion is the
worldwide leader in wireless broadband providing systems to carriers, ISPs
and private network operators. Featuring the industry's most extensive
portfolio and covering the full range of frequency bands, the company's
products enable the delivery of business and residential broadband access,
corporate VPNs, mobile base station feeding, Hotspot coverage extension,
community interconnection, and public safety communications. Alvarion works
with several leading OEM providers and through over 200 local partners to
support its diverse customer base in solving their last mile connection
challenges wherever located. As an industry pioneer, Alvarion has been
driving and delivering wireless broadband innovations for 10 years from core
technology developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Most
recently offering OFDM-based systems and taking leading roles in the IEEE
and HiperMAN standards, the company's prominent work in the WiMAX ForumTM is
focused on leading the wireless broadband market to widespread adoption of
standards-based products.
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