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Will do, Serious.

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Dubi

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African Broadband Provider Gulfsat Madagascar Expands Network with Alvarion's WiMAX System

Tuesday January 24, 6:00 am ET

BreezeMAX(TM) To Be Used To Target Residential Subscribers in Capital City

TEL-AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2006--Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR - News), the world's leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced that African broadband provider, Gulfsat Madagascar, will expand its current network using Alvarion's BreezeMAX, its award winning WiMAX system. Since 2003, Gulfsat has been providing broadband services to corporate subscribers using Alvarion's BreezeACCESS® OFDM system operating in 3.5 GHz. The addition of the BreezeMAX network, also operating at 3.5 GHz, is part of the operator's strategy to target residential subscribers with greater coverage and increased capacity. As part of the deployment, Gulfsat plans to use Alvarion's BreezeMAX PRO customer premise equipment (CPE) that uses the Intel® PRO/Wireless 5116 WiMAX chip.

"We are excited to be the first service provider to bring WiMAX to Madagascar," said Mr. Mohib Pirbay, CEO of Gulfsat Madagascar. "Initially, this network will offer broadband services to residential subscribers in the capital city of Antananarivo, adding to our current base of corporate customers. We look forward to accelerating growth in this market segment with Alvarion in the future."

BreezeMAX(TM) is Alvarion's WiMAX platform designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards and uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality. Its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer triple play broadband services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station. Since its launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 140 installations in more than 30 countries around the world.

"We are pleased that Gulfsat Madagascar has again selected Alvarion for its network needs joining many other innovative carriers in Africa and elsewhere in deploying the most popular WiMAX system in the world," commented Tzvika Friedman, CEO and president of Alvarion. "And with the BreezeMAX PRO CPE containing the Intel chip, it's another milestone toward the widespread adoption of WiMAX standard products. This network highlights Alvarion's unmatched ability to combine WiMAX products, professional services, and our global reach to deploy WiMAX networks in any location worldwide."

About Gulfsat Madagascar

Gulfsat Madagascar is a leading provider of wireless Internet services as well as managed Infocom solutions based on the wireless and VSAT communication in Madagascar. Gulfsat Madagascar offers comprehensive, secure and integrated solutions for enterprises/SOHO users to enable them to have the best quality Internet services to run their business critical IT applications. While enterprises focus on their core competencies, Gulfsat Madagascar provides them with a unique opportunity to have a single point solution for some of their critical & complex requirements. Specific solutions include Internet / Intranet services, hosting of web/e-mail/FTP servers, a completely managed firewall solution, all terrain connectivity and management of critical IT resources. The operative words for all solutions being Anywhere, Anytime, Available ...

Gulfsat Madagascar has a strong technical team of 80 technical staff providing industry best support with adaptation of the best service practices which are in line with ISO support policies and practices with its vast support coverage in Madagascar. Gulfsat Madagascar has unique capability of running and fine tuning almost every application being used of variety of customers as business communication to provide the best performance over the wireless media including one of the major banking establishment providing ONLINE banking services using Gulfsat Madagascar's Alvarion based WiMAX product lines. Gulfsat Madagscar is the first service provider in the region rolling out the WiMAX based Internet services with already many clients availing these services for the high speed internet connectivity which allows customers to even get up to 3 Mbps of download.

For more information, please visit our web site: www.gulfsat.mg or contact us at: [phone] or [e-mail]

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060124/20060124005493.html?.v=1

Dubi

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Gulfsat Madagascar expanding network with Alvarion WiMAX technology

24.1.06 | 17:00 By Asaf Rothem
It's a new day and Alvarion (TASE, Nasdaq: ALVR) today reported yet another new deal, to a happy repeat customer.

The Israeli company, which provides wireless broadband access systems and specialized mobile networks, said that African broadband provider, Gulfsat Madagascar is expanding its network using Alvarion's WiMAX system BreezeMAX.

Alvarion didn't mention money changing hands but market sources think it should get about a million dollars.

Since 2003, Gulfsat has been providing broadband services to corporate subscribers using Alvarion's BreezeACCESS OFDM system operating in 3.5 GHz.

The addition of the BreezeMAX network, also operating at 3.5 GHz, is part of the operator's strategy to target residential subscribers with greater coverage and increased capacity.

As part of the deployment, Gulfsat plans to use Alvarion's BreezeMAX PRO customer premise equipment (CPE) that uses the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 5116 WiMAX chip, Alvarion said.

"We are excited to be the first service provider to bring WiMAX to Madagascar," said Mohib Pirbay, CEO of Gulfsat Madagascar. "Initially, this network will offer broadband services to residential subscribers in the capital city of Antananarivo, adding to our current base of corporate customers. We look forward to accelerating growth in this market segment with Alvarion in the future."

Since its launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 140 installations in more than 30 countries around the world.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/674279.html

Dubi

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Communications Ministry holds WiMAX hearing

The ministry wants to formulate a policy for allocating frequencies.

Guy Hadass 1 Feb 06 15:32

The Ministry of Communications has opened a hearing on WiMAX frequencies. The ministry wants to formulate a policy for allocating frequencies in the 2.4, 2.5, 3.5 and 3.7 Gigahertz bands.
The Ministry of Communications said a policy was needed because of technological developments in the provision of broadband wireless communications, including the use of WiMAX technology. The ministry added that the technology would make it possible to set up and operate wireless access systems for telephony, data communications and transmission services, which were expected to also enable mobile communications that would compete against existing cellular systems.

The Ministry of Communications said the number of applications for allocations of frequencies for wireless access systems from existing license holders and other commercial entities had been growing lately, in order to provide a range of fixed communications services.

The Ministry of Communications is therefore considering changing its policy for the allocation of 3.5 Gigahertz frequencies, and to formulate an allocation policy for other frequencies used in the operation of wireless access systems. The ministry of also considering adjusting its current policy for the commercial use of 2.4 megahertz band to allow current and new communications operators to set up wireless access systems operating on these frequencies and use them to provide fixed communication services, including telephony services.

Ministry of Communications director general Avi Balashnikov asked for a position paper on the subject to be submitted by February 28.

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on February 1, 2006

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000056886&fid=942

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