Fibertower Corp fka FBBT

[SFGiants]

GSA Networx Snapshot

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Largest telecom contract in U.S. history
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Estimated value is around $20 billion over 10 years
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2 Part Award
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Universal awarded in March 2007
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Enterprise awarded in May 2007
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FiberTower principal fixed wireless supplier to Verizon and Qwest on both parts of Networx Award
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FiberTower to provide redundancy/diversity and premise access services

“FiberTower is pleased and excited to have been selected to participate
in this historic and important commitment by the GSA”

– Michael Gallagher, CEO, FiberTower

As part of our agreement with Verizon Business, FiberTower will bring fixed-wireless services to individual government agencies as required. Utilizing our national-scope wide-band spectrum holdings in 24 and 39 GHz bands, we will provide secure, government-grade wireless transport services under the Verizon umbrella, including diversity/redundancy and fiber extensions. Read more about our 24 and 39 GHz spectrum holdings.

FiberTower will also work with GigaBeam to provide more high-capacity options to support the Networx Universal contract. As part of a recently signed MOU, FiberTower will be testing Gigabeam’s wireless fiber radio equipment, including the G-1.25 and G-2.7 WiFiber® solutions.

About Verizon Networx

Verizon Business, one of the largest communications providers to the federal government, has a proven track record of providing communications to the federal government for nearly 20 years. One of the two telecommunications service providers initially awarded the FTS2001 contracts by the GSA in January 1999, Verizon serves virtually every federal agency under that contract. For more information, visit them at www.verizonbusiness.com.

About Gigabeam

Gigabeam is a fixed wireless equipment provider and the leader in the 70/80GHz millimeter wave bands. Gigabeam is the most widely deployed product globally in this spectrum and is shipping commercial product, the G-1.25 operating at 1.25Gbps duplex today. Gigabeam’s product roadmap has plans for up to 10Gbps duplex with a pending release of an OC-48 or 2xGigE product later this year. For more information please visit www.gigabeam.com.