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China Telecom Selects Alvarion Solutions For BWA Network Deployments In Four Provinces

Alvarion’s Partners BISC and Datang Win Broadband Wireless Tenders In Four North China Provinces 
 
Tel – Aviv, Israel, December 8, 2003 – Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the leading provider of wireless broadband solutions worldwide, today announced that its solutions have been selected by China Telecom Corporation (NYSE:CHA), one of the world’s largest telecom operators, for deployment in four provinces. 

China Telecom was awarded licenses to operate 3.5 GHz BWA networks in the second round of China’s frequency licensing process.  After intensive evaluation, China Telecom decided on four recommended vendors, two of which are Alvarion’s OEM partners in China, BISC and Datang Telecom. To date, four of China Telecom’s northern provinces have placed initial orders for Alvarion solutions: Liaoning, Shandong, Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang. Most of the orders were for Alvarion's WALKair™ 1000 Multiservice Telecom Platform.

Alvarion has now achieved successful initial commercial deliveries with all four of China’s major telecom service providers of fixed and cellular lines: China Telecom, China Netcom, China Mobile and China Unicom. 

“We are proud that Alvarion solutions have been chosen by one of the world’s largest wireline operators   who selected us in four provinces where they were endorsed with 3.5Ghz frequency licenses,” said Zvi Slonimsky, CEO of Alvarion. “We are pleased with the selection of our solution for initial deployments by the BWA providers in China. Over the long term, we believe China’s huge population, growing broadband demand, and lack of suitable infrastructure make it an attractive region for wireless solutions.”

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About China Telecom

China Telecom Corporation Limited provides wireline telephone, data and Internet and leased line services in Shanghai Municipality, Guangdong Province, Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province of the People's Republic of China. It was established in May 2002 after the split of the former China Telecom into two groups: China Telecom for China’s southern regions, and China Netcom for its northern regions. China Telecom now encompasses 21 provincial corporations, and holds 70% of the national trunk-line transmission network assets owned by the former China Telecom. It offers a range of telecommunications services to residential and business customers, including local, domestic long distance and international long distance telephone services, Internet and managed data, leased line and other related services.

For more information, visit www.chinatelecom.com.cn.

About BISC 

Beijing International Switching System Corporation Limited (BISC) is a high-tech joint venture between SIEMENS and Chinese enterprises. The company focuses on the marketing and manufacturing of EWSD switching systems, broadband access product (Xpresslink), Next Generation Network solutions (SURPASS) for convergence of voice and data services, IP Routing (Juniper) and Broadband Wireless Access (Alvarion) for the fast developing China telecommunications market. BISC had been formally recognized as one of the 500 Largest Industry Enterprises in China, Top 100 Enterprises of Electronic Industry, and Top Ten Foreign Invested Industrial Enterprises of the Beijing Municipality. For more information visit www.bisc.com.cn

About Datang

Established in August 1998 and traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Datang Telecom Technology Co. Ltd. is the former China Academy of Telecommunications Technology, which converted to a stock company after forty-three years of operations.  Datang provides different services for the largest telecommunications operators in China and is one of China’s largest local telecommunications integrators and equipment suppliers.  With over 4,600 employees, Datang has research centers, five subsidiary companies, four stock companies and two share companies, as well as a company that has direct ownership relations with other companies and institutions in the Ministry of Information Industry of China. For more information visit www.catt.ac.cn/english/

About Alvarion

Alvarion is dedicated to delivering seamless wireless broadband networking infrastructure to carriers, ISPs and private network operators, in order to leverage their broadband opportunities into sustainable profits. Alvarion offers premier wireless broadband solutions for access in the last mile, backhauling connection to the backbone and private network connectivity. Featuring the industry's most extensive range of products and international support, Alvarion is a pioneering leader of the converged wireless broadband network. With over 1.5 million units deployed in 120 countries worldwide, Alvarion provides secure rich-media networks for business or residential Internet access, corporate VPNs, cellular base station feeding, community interconnection, public safety connectivity and extended Hotspots.

Having recently acquired InnoWave's wideband access portfolio and expertise, Alvarion provides a complete wireless solution that supports a wide range of frequency bands, customer profiles and service types.

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