Alvarion Wins Costa Rican WiMAX Contract

Alvarion  has been awarded a $6 million contract by ICE (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad), Costa RicaÃ's incumbent telco. Under the terms of the agreement Alvarion will implement a turnkey project to provide advanced broadband services, deploying its 4Motion solution with its WiMAX Forum Certified BreezeMAX 2500 platform.

The 802.16e network rollout, using the 2.5 GHz frequency band, is expected to commence in San Jose and the rural areas of Limon. As part of this turnkey project, Alvarion will provide ICE with thousands of CPEs (customer premises equipment), radio planning, system integration and configuration support, maintenance services at customer premises, training courses, and more. Telerad is AlvarionÃ's local partner for this project.

"We are eager to bring the advantages of WiMAX to the people of Costa Rica and look forward to working closely with ICE to increase adoption in the country," said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. "AlvarionÃ's end-to-end solution will enable ICE to offer new broadband services while creating new revenue opportunities. We are committed to the growing market in Latin America and intend to leverage our vast experience in the region to offer exciting and innovative options for broadband communication."

In order to shorten installation time and avoid copper cable theft, ICE will offer both residential and enterprise users services based on AlvarionÃ's Mobile WiMAX technology.

Posted to the site on 16th December 2008