In previous years, ENTEL deployed Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS XL system to provide residential broadband data services of 30,000 customer links throughout the country.

“We are excited to be the first operator to offer WiMAX data and voice services in Chile,” said Richard Büchi, CEO of ENTEL Chile. “We have already deployed 22 base stations and our network will be completed by the end of the first half of 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 specially to small and medium companies."

BreezeMAX is Alvarion’s WiMAX platform designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards and uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality. Its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer triple play broadband services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station. Since its launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 150 installations in more than 30 countries around the world.

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