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Alvarion Receives Follow-On Order From Telecel, Paraguay's Largest Cellular Operator

With Over 3000 Subscribers Already Connected, Telecel Continues to Fill Growing Demand for Broadband Services 
 
Tel Aviv, Israel, December 19, 2001 - Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), a leading provider of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) solutions, today announced a follow-on order from Telecel S.A., the largest cellular operator in Paraguay, for subscriber units required to connect approximately 1,000 additional customers to Telecel's broadband wireless access network in the licensed 3.5 GHz frequency band.

With around 700,000 cellular subscribers, Telecel owns a 60% share of the cellular market in Paraguay. In 2000, Telecel leveraged its positioning and assets – including its customer base, marketing and support organization, rooftop rights, and other real estate – to launch Telesurf Wireless, a high-speed Internet access network. Requiring only the mounting of Alvarion base station equipment on Telecel's existing cellular base stations, time-to-launch of the advanced network was particularly rapid.

An outstanding success, the service has reached critical mass. Telecel has connected more than 3,000 subscribers – from Paraguay's largest businesses to residential customers in affluent neighborhoods, to residential and business users in isolated agricultural communities – via Alvarion products. For large businesses, the BWA network offers high-speed Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) with guaranteed Quality of Service (QOS) as needed to support automatic teller machines and distributed Point-of-Sale networks. In remote areas, the wireless network reaches areas where wireline infrastructure fails, bringing always-on Internet access to villages and agricultural businesses.

Commenting on the news, Osmar Coronel, CTO of Telecel, said, “Our BWA network provides a needed service for our customers, and is set to become an even more important driver of increased revenues for Telecel. Alvarion’s advanced technology has been critical to our success, enabling us to quickly and cost-effectively launch reliable data services on a large scale with minimal incremental expense, and with the knowledge that the technology offers us plenty of room for growth.”

Zvi Slonimsky, co-CEO of Alvarion, added, “We are delighted with Telecel's BWA success, which illustrates the sound business model being adopted by a growing number of cellular operators. By deploying parallel BWA networks, operators can ‘mine’ their important assets to produce substantial additional revenues. Alvarion base stations are easy to add to the towers and rooftops where cellular base stations are installed. With a “build as you grow” approach, Alvarion networks enable cellular operators to minimize their exposure while evaluating market demand, ramping up only when justified. This favorable proposition is proving attractive for a growing number of cellular operators, and is becoming an increasingly important source of business for Alvarion.”

About Telecel
Established in 1992, Telecel S.A. is the largest cellular telephony operator in Paraguay. Since its inception as a joint venture between local businessmen and Millicom International Cellular S.A., a Luxembourg-based corporation with interests in cellular operators in 20 countries, Telecel has developed a subscriber base of around 700,000 users. Dedicated to the provision of valuable and affordable services, in 1999 Telecel deployed a state-of-the-art PCS digital network, and in 2000 it launched Telesurf Wireless data transmission and Internet access services. Telecel continues to improve its services, meeting the changing needs of its growing and diversified customer base.

About Alvarion
Alvarion is a powerhouse of point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access (BWA) solutions for telecom carriers, service providers, and Enterprises worldwide. Alvarion’s systems are used to provide Internet access and voice and data services for subscribers in the last mile, as well as for cellular network feeding, building-to-building connectivity, and wireless local area networks (LANs).

Alvarion, which was formed by the merger of BreezeCOM and Floware, offers the broadest range of BWA solutions by market segment and frequency band. Its solutions are designed to address all carriers’ and service providers’ business models. With the combined market experience of its founding companies, a strong customer base, diversified distribution channels and field-proven deployments, Alvarion is the leading BWA pure-play provider for all types of end-users, from residential subscribers to business customers.

For more information, please visit Alvarion’s Website at http://www.alvarion.com.

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