Form 6-K Report of Foreign Private Issuer
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Form
6-K
REPORT
OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT
TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For
the
month of January 2006
Commission
File Number: 0-30628
ALVARION
LTD.
(Translation
of registrant’s name into English)
21A
Habarzel Street, Tel Aviv 69710, Israel
(Address
of principal executive office)
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Press
release on GHANA
TELECOM EXPANDS
ITS BROADBAND WIRELESS NETWORK WITH APPROXIMATELY $3 MILLION OF ALVARION
EQUIPMENT,
dated
January
10,
2006
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant
has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized.
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ALVARION
LTD. |
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| Date: January
10, 2006 |
By: |
/s/ Dafna
Gruber |
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Dafna
Gruber |
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Title:
Chief
Financial Officer |
EXHIBIT
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Contacts
Dafna
Gruber,
CFO
Carmen
Deville
+972
3
645
6252
+760-517-3188
+760-517-3187
dafna.gruber@alvarion.com
carmen.deville@alvarion.com
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GHANA
TELECOM EXPANDS
ITS BROADBAND WIRELESS NETWORK WITH
APPROXIMATELY
$3 MILLION OF ALVARION EQUIPMENT
Customer
Demand Drives eMGW™ Network Growth
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TEL
AVIV, Israel, January 10, 2006 — Alvarion Ltd.
(NASDAQ:ALVR),
the
world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced that Ghana Telecom, the country’s incumbent carrier,
is expanding its broadband wireless network with an additional approximate
$3
million of Alvarion’s eMGW equipment. In previous years, Ghana Telecom built a
broadband wireless network in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, using $4 million of
eMGW to provide broadband data and toll quality voices services to more than
2000 customers with limited infrastructure. This current deal covers network
expansion that will occur in the fourth quarter of 2005 and continue through
the
first quarter of 2006.
“Expanding
our broadband wireless network with eMGW is a direct result of customer demand
from both business and residential users,” said Jarle Rekve, Chief Technical
Officer (CTO) of Ghana Telecom. “As we expand our Accra network, we will
continue to connect tens of new customers each day, while preparing for
deploying broadband wireless networks in additional cities in Ghana. We are
committed to offering reliable and efficient broadband services to our
subscribers, while serving as innovative carrier and pro-actively employing
new
technologies to serve customers.”
Alvarion’s
eMGW is a point-to-multi-point fixed wireless system that is cost and technology
optimized to offer data and voice services to SOHO and residential users. eMGW
supports fast Internet services, corporate network access and carrier-class
telephony in a single system, and with its innovative ‘hybrid-switching’
architecture, uses both circuit and packet switching to maximize spectrum and
equipment utilization. Operating in a wide range of frequencies, from 800MHz
to
5.7GHz, eMGW has been successfully installed in over 60 countries.
“We
are
pleased that an incumbent carrier such as Ghana Telecom has had success serving
customers with broadband wireless and is expanding its eMGW network,” said
Tzvika Friedman, CEO and President of Alvarion. “This sale enables GT to
continue building out the network as they sign-on subscribers demonstrating
the
optimally cost-effective economics of broadband wireless networks and
eMGW.”
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About
Ghana Telecom
Ghana
Telecom is Ghana's national telecom operator and the biggest operator in the
country, providing fixed and mobile GSM services in Ghana. It was privatized
in
1997, and is currently managed by Telenor Management Partner (TMP) of Norway.
Ghana Telecom's mission is to provide reliable, efficient and flexible
telecommunications services to its customers, with emphasis on innovation,
technology and continuous manpower development, and meet stakeholders'
expectation in attaining regional excellence.
About
Alvarion
With
more
than 2 million units deployed in 130 countries, Alvarion is the worldwide leader
in wireless broadband providing systems to carriers, ISPs and private network
operators, and also in extending coverage of GSM and CDMA mobile networks to
developing countries and other hard to serve areas.
Leading
the WiMAX revolution, Alvarion has the most extensive deployments and proven
product portfolio in the industry covering the full range of frequency bands
with both fixed and mobile solutions. Alvarion’s products enable the delivery of
business and residential broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality
telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community
interconnection, public safety communications, and mobile voice and data.
Alvarion works with several global OEM providers and more than 200 local
partners to support its diverse global customer base in solving their last-mile
challenges.
As
a
wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and delivering innovations
for more than ten years from core technology developments to creating and
promoting industry standards. Leveraging its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN
standards committees and experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, the
Company's prominent work in the WiMAX Forum is focused on increasing widespread
adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and
leading the entire industry to mobile WiMAX solutions.
For
more
information, visit Alvarion’s World Wide Web site at www.alvarion.com
This
press release contains forward -looking statements within the meaning of the
"safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995
of the United States of America. These statements are based on the current
expectations or beliefs of Alvarion’s management and are subject to a number of
factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those described in the forward -looking statements. The following factors,
among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those
described in the forward-looking statements: inability to further identify,
develop and achieve success for new products, services and technologies;
increased competition and its effect on pricing, spending, third-party
relationships and revenues; as well as the in ability to establish and maintain
relationships with commerce, advertising, marketing, and technology providers
and other risks detailed from time to time in filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
Information
set forth in this press release pertaining to third parties has not been
independently verified by Alvarion and is based solely on publicly available
information or on information provided to Alvarion by such third parties for
inclusion in this press release. The web sites appearing in this press release
are not and will not be included or incorporated by reference in any filing
made
by Alvarion with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which this press
release will be a part of.
You
may
request Alvarion's future press releases or a complete Investor Kit by
contacting Carmen Deville, Investor Relations: carmen.deville@alvarion.com
or
+1-650.314.2653.
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