Netia Selects Alavarion's Breezemax for a 20 City Wimax Deployment in Poland

August 23, 2006

Alvarion Ltd., announced that Netia, a leading competitive Polish telecommunications provider, has selected its BreezeMAX 3600 for a 20 city WiMAX deployment in Poland. An extension of Alvarion's market leading BreezeMAX solution operating from 3.6 to 3.8 GHz, the BreezeMAX 3600 is targeted at WiMAX operators in Europe and other countries where that frequency is available and enables carriers to offer broadband data, voice, and multimedia services with high performance over wide coverage areas. As a customer of Alvarion's MGW solution for multi-residential voice and data services, Netia began this WiMAX deployment in 20 additional cities upon receiving the nationwide license. Netia is one of four Polish carriers who received the nationwide WiMAX license.

“We want both business and residential subscribers across Poland to automatically think of Netia when signing up for broadband," said Wojciech Mądalski, president and CEO of Netia. "We selected the strong team of Alvarion to ensure that we can provide WiMAX services to subscribers in the first 20 cities by the end of August."

BreezeMAX is Alvarion’s award-winning 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 180 installations in more than 80 countries around the world.

“Netia is an excellent example of a carrier who plans to use WiMAX aggressively to expand its service offerings and penetrate various new markets for increased revenues," commented Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. “Our more than a decade of leadership in broadband wireless access and now WiMAX enabled us to quickly match our BreezeMAX system to the spectrum needs of Netia. We are pleased to provide them with the world's most widely deployed WiMAX system in the frequency band they require and look forward to helping Netia grow its WiMAX network to cover all of Poland eventually."