Alvarion's offers to BWA operators

What are your plans and expectations?

Broadband has significant potential for growth and wirless broadband is the most cost effective means of providing a broadband service. We think the opportunity both for operators as well as vendors are quite significant. The 3G auction  is somewhat dramatic which in turn perhaps represents a trigger opportunity for the BWA spectrum itself because operators will need this additional spectrum to provide good quality of service nationwide.

We look forward to our fair share of this pie. We are ramping up our presence in India, hiring people, strengthening and introducing skill sets and capabilities and working on our relationships with prospective operators. We will leverage our presence in the Indian market with the fixed wireless deployments networks that we have had here for a number of years.

Can you share exact details of the expansion plans?

Several tons of employees and we will continue to hire and keep check on the final results of the auction and the contracts and we will make final decisions as to how far do we need to progress.

What are the new deals in the pipeline?

On the private sector side it remains to be seen who will end up with spectrum in what circle and so the operators to my knowledge too have not made any decisions yet. They too are waiting to see themselves — so we are all waiting to see the final decisions there. Finally, on the public sector side there are a number of initiatives and we hope that contracts will be finalized in the near term and we will then proceed with providing technology for deployment.

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