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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As a replacement for its current outdated WLL system, Alvarion’s 3.8 GHz product will allow COTAS to provide enhanced voice and Internet access to its customers in the greater Santa Cruz area beginning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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