The network will offer voice and data services to businesses in 14 cities.
Alvarion (Nasdaq: ALVR; TASE: ALVR) has announced that Chilean telecommunications company ENTEL Chile (Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A.) is deploying the first WiMAX network in the country, using Alvarion's BreezeMAX 3500 platform.
ENTEL will use its WiMAX network to offer voice and data services and extend broadband coverage to small and medium companies and corporate users in 14 cities.
The company has previously deployed Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS XL system to provide residential broadband data services of 30,000 customer links throughout the country.
ENTEL Chile CEO Richard Büchi said, “We are excited to be the first operator to offer WiMAX data and voice services in Chile. We have already deployed 22 base stations and our network will be completed during first semester 2006. We chose Alvarion after we tested various competitive systems and we are confident of the performance of our network that will allow us to offer various services especially to small and medium companies.”
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on May 22, 2006
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