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Business Summary excerpt from SEC filing dated: May 12, 2006
With more than 2 million units deployed in 150 countries, our company is the worldwide leader in providing wireless broadband systems. We believe we lead the WiMAX market with the greatest number of WiMAX deployments worldwide. We supply carriers, ISPs and private network operators with WiMAX standard and other wireless broadband solutions, as well as compact cellular networks to developing countries and remote areas. Our products cover the full range of frequency bands with both fixed and mobile solutions, enabling 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. Extending coverage of mobile networks to developing countries and other hard to serve areas, we offer mobile network solutions that feature a low cost of entry, local switching, and integrated value-added service (VAS) functionality. As a wireless broadband pioneer, we have been driving and delivering innovations for more than 10 years from core technology developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Leveraging our key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, we have been in the forefront of the WiMAX Forum™ in its focus on increasing the widespread adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading the entire industry to mobile WiMAX solutions. We provide solutions in a wide range of licensed and unlicensed frequency bands and our solutions address every end user profile, from the growing residential and SOHO (small office, home office) markets through SMEs (small and medium enterprises) and MTU/MDUs (multi-tenant units/multi dwelling units). In all of these markets, we have integrated and engineered industry-leading technologies such as our WiMAX product, BreezeMAX, to create carrier class and standards based solutions, combined with excellent deployment and field experience. |
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In January 2006 we reorganized the company into a divisional structure, in order to support the type of multi-dimensional growth strategy that we are pursuing.
We formed several units: corporate, customer, operations, cellular mobile, broadband wireless and broadband mobile units. We believe this structure will give us the flexibility to react quickly to changing market dynamics. WiMAX Technology and Advantages WiMAX stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, a technology based on the IEEE 802.16 air interface standard and the ETSI HiperMAN wireless metropolitan area network (MAN) standard. WiMAX technology has the capacity to deliver sufficient bandwidth to enable added-value applications, including live video broadcasting, high-speed data, toll-quality voice and multimedia content. Most importantly, the WiMAX (IEEE-802.16) standard was developed based on the concept of an “all IP Network”. A complete set of IP-based functions and interfaces allow for high quality service delivery, while keeping end-to-end QoS (Quality of Service), and minimizes investment and operating costs for operators with its distributed architecture and efficient, packet-based air interface. The technical advantages of WiMAX over other mobile technologies, especially in spectral efficiency that increases the capacity and reduces the cost per subscriber and advanced QoS, non line-of-sight capabilities and smart antennas, are being proven now in the lab and in the field. No other technology offers a full set of chargeable, differential, premium multimedia, data and voice services in various wireless fashions: fixed, portable and mobile to increase revenue and reduce subscriber churn rates. |
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