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PC Telcom Offers Bolder Faster Wireless Broadband in Northeast Colorado

Holyoke, Colorado - December 16, 2011

About PC Telcom

In Northeast Colorado, agriculture is the main economic force. The irrigated dry land is excellent for growing wheat, corn, dry edible beans, popcorn and alfalfa. The area is sparsely populated and the population density outside of the small towns is less than one resident per square mile. Phillips County Telephone Company has been serving this type of rural area for over 100 years. As the company moved into other lines of business, it established PC Telcom and its subsidiaries to provide voice, video and data.

The Challenge

PC Telcom has a number of competitors that serve the small communities in their area but they are the only provider willing to serve the more rural areas. They currently serve their subscribers with a mix of broadband solutions including DSL, cable modem, fiber to the home and high-speed wireless. They need to stay ahead of any potential competitors by replacing their aging unlicensed wireless product with a newer technology that will increase their bandwidth capacity, reduce their maintenance costs and not be affected by interference.

The Solution

After examining a number of solutions, PC Telcom selected the Alvarion BreezeMAX Extreme 3650 for the licensed 3.65GHz frequency. The wireless broadband solution was implemented by Alvarion’s partner, Wireless Connections, an Ohio-based system integrator that specializes in building rural networks.The new commercial network will include more than 20 base stations and provide wireless broadband connectivity to the rural towns of Holyoke, Ovid, Paoli, Haxtun, Amherst, Julesburg, and the northern portion of Yuma County. Service plans with VoIP are also being designed for rollout in the near future.

The Benefits

Alvarion’s BreezeMAX Extreme 3650 lets PC Telcom capitalize on the business opportunity of the 3.65 GHz spectrum. This licensed spectrum — with very low licensing fees — gives PC Telcom exclusivity on its airwaves for maximizing their level of service as well their rate of return. Compared to other solutions, the BreezeMAX Extreme solution allows PC Telcom to more cost effectively serve their area and to support 20% more users. In addition, the Alvarion solution will let PC Telcom provide very robust and affordable connectivity-on-the-go to their technicians in their service vehicles.

“Alvarion’s wireless solution improves how we serve our existing customers and lets us serve new customers over a larger wireless footprint,” says Pete Markle, Director of Operations at PC Telcom. “We are very excited to soon offer VoIP in a number of areas. Until now, these areas have been served by other LECs. VoIP will make our offering very competitive and let us become the provider of choice throughout northeast Colorado.”

About Wireless Connections

Wireless Connections is the leader in providing expertise needed for proper design, equipment purchases, implementation and maintenance of wireless networks in both licensed and unlicensed frequencies. The company’s typical clients include ISPs, utilities, telcos, emergency management agencies, municipalities and resellers across the country in need of a wireless solution (www.wirelessconnections.net).

Bloosurf ISP Selects Alvarion Solution

Bloosurf ISP Selects Alvarion® Solution for Rural Wireless Broadband Network in Maryland

ISP has teamed with three universities to provide broadband services and highspeed
campus-wide connectivity

Washington DC, August 02, 2011 — Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading
provider of 4G networks in the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) market, today
announced that it was selected by Bloosurf, a rural broadband service provider in
Maryland, for its 4G wireless broadband network to serve three adjacent counties and
university campuses. Bloosurf will be providing the last-mile network of broadband service
using Alvarion’s end-to-end 4Motion® network solution operating in the 2.5 GHz spectrum.

Bloosurf was awarded Federal Stimulus funds to bring broadband to Worcester, Wicomico
and Somerset counties, as well as Smith Island. Alvarion’s 4Motion solution will enable
Bloosurf to offer reliable, ultra-fast service to educational, residential and commercial
customers. 4Motion combines BreezeMAX® and other best-of-breed systems to provide a
complete ecosystem at the network level, enabling operators to be most responsive to a
diversity of subscriber needs.

Bloosurf will provide broadband services which will benefit around 126,000 people, 6,000
businesses and 351 community institutions. Paul Carliner, president of Bloosurf called the
service an unprecedented offer that would be better than anything offered in Baltimore or
Washington. In areas such as the regional university campuses that are more populated,
Bloosurf will offer wireless broadband service through partnerships with the University of
Maryland Eastern Shore, Salisbury University and Wor-Wic Community College. Bloosurf
has partnered with the universities to provide thousands of students on three campuses
with consistent, high-speed connectivity to the university networks and to the Internet.

“The flexibility of Alvarion’s solution will enable us to roll out the wireless network so that
the higher density areas, such as campuses serving thousands of savvy users, are
consistently connected, while we continue to deliver optimally to our business and
residential users,” commented Carliner. “Its comprehensiveness will allow us to do so in
the most cost-effective manner.”

“Rural wireless broadband has been an important market for us throughout our history.
Our focus on continuous technology advancements has enabled us to provide more
flexible, cost-effective solutions that can be deployed more quickly,” commented Eran
Gorev, president and CEO of Alvarion. “From the underserved to the unconnected, highspeed
wireless is transforming lives for hundreds of thousands every day, regardless of
their location or financial capability – we are excited to be a part of it.”

About Bloosurf
Bloosurf is a leading provider of rural broadband service through its wireless last mile
hybrid networks combining WiMAX, WiFi and FTTH solutions that provide affordable and
reliable high speed internet service to its customers in the rural marketplace. The
recipient of U.S. government funding, Bloosurf is building a state-of-the-art last mile
broadband network in rural Maryland combining fiber, WiFi, WiMAX, Mobile 4G broadband
and VOIP service to residences, businesses, universities, non-profits and local
governments to help rural communities bridge the digital divide.

About Alvarion
Alvarion (NASDAQ:ALVR) is a global leader in 4G wireless communications with the
industry’s most extensive customer base with hundreds of commercial WiMAX
deployments. Alvarion’s industry leading solutions enable true open 4G and vertical
applications for service providers and enterprises. Through an OPEN WiMAX strategy,
superior IP and OFDMA know-how, and ability to deploy large scale end-to-end turnkey
networks, Alvarion is delivering the true 4G broadband experience today
(www.alvarion.com)

Last Updated ( Friday, 05 August 2011 )

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