Alcatel Partner with 3G / TD-CDMA Player

Alcatel enhanced its leading role in next generation wireless broadband access solutions, by announcing a strategic partnership with IPWireless, the world's leading TD-CDMA (TDD) solutions company.

Alcatel has chosen to partner with IPWireless to serve the needs of mobile operators wishing to complement their GSM/GPRS and WCDMA service offerings with TDD broadband wireless services. This solution is particularly well adapted to deploy cost effective coverage of "hot zones" such as dense business areas. This TDD solution will support Alcatel's extensive portfolio of UMTS/3G and WLAN networks and services. The IPWireless(TM) broadband solution delivers data rates of up to 3Mbps (1.5Mbps in a 5MHz channel) direct to users' laptops or PCs via a PC card (PCMCIA). In a fully deployed network, broadband coverage is as ubiquitous as today's GSM networks.

The TDD solutions of IPWireless are already integrated and showcased in Alcatel's 3G Reality Center in Paris. The cooperation between the two companies illustrates the breadth and value of Alcatel's worldwide 3G Reality Center program, bringing together and integrating key partners along the entire mobile value chain to foster the timely availability of end-to-end revenue-generating solutions for operators.

"By partnering with IPWireless, Alcatel will be able to provide mobile network operators with the latest TDD technology and services that deliver data at broadband speeds," said Alcatel's Mobile Communications COO Marc Rouanne. "The IPWireless solution will enable mobile operators to develop a whole range of new applications and services that users are already demanding, and to offer to their key customers a real end-to-end continuity of 3G services."

"Alcatel is the worldwide leader in broadband access solutions, with significant customer, portfolio and geographic capabilities. It is a big step forward for IPWireless to have Alcatel as a partner and to join Alcatel's 3G Reality Center program. It shows the momentum that IPWireless' broadband technology is building globally," said Chris Gilbert, CEO, IPWireless. "The relationship will ensure that mobile network operators have the latest 3G broadband solutions coupled with complete service assurance, through the deployment, integration and support skills and assets which Alcatel has established around the globe."

Next-Generation Wireless Network Delivers on the Promise of High-Speed Data Services

IPWireless mobile broadband access is the first total network solution on the market that complies with the industry standard TD-CDMA (TDD) standard. The IPWireless solution will provide users with peak communications rates of up to 3Mbps (1.5 Mbps in a 5MHz channel), which will enable a whole new generation of wireless data services. Available for operation in the 1.9 GHz and 2.5 GHz licensed bands (the UMTS unpaired allocations), the IPWireless solution includes a complete network infrastructure solution and pocket-sized wireless modems and PCMCIA cards.

The innovative solution enables mobile network operators to deploy cost effective "hot zones" coverage which complement existing 2G and planned 3G FDD networks; offering end users secure, wireless access to the Internet, office Intranet, and a range of other applications and services at true broadband speeds.

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