WiMAX Forum® Announces India's First WiMAXTM Exposition

2008 WiMAX for Broadband India Expo Draws Prominent India

Operators, Growing Ecosystem to highlight Growing WiMAX Momentum in India

*     More than 25 International Exhibitors Will Showcase Their

Devices at WiMAX Exposition on October 15-16 at The Oberoi, New Delhi

New Delhi - September 29, 2008 - The WiMAX Forum, in cooperation with India's premier trade and commerce chamber, ASSOCHAM, has gathered prominent industry leaders at the WiMAX Summit in New Delhi's The Oberoi on Oct 15-16, 2008.  The premier WiMAX Summit will demonstrate ecosystem readiness and maturity for accelerating India's broadband penetration levels. The WiMAX Forum and ASSOCHAM created the summit recognizing the impact of India's ecosystem to the success of WiMAX technology worldwide, as well as the true potential WiMAX products and networks will serve to extend broadband services within India. The event was designed with the aim of transforming ‘Narrowband India' to ‘Broadband India' with WiMAX Technology as well as to enable the country to meet its viable target of 20 million broadband connections nationwide by 2010.

"We continue to revere the Ministry of Communications, Government of India as a global visionary and leader, and this is evidenced by its recently announced policy for BWA last month, said Ron Resnick, WiMAX Forum President.  "As a direct result, India's major operators and top vendors have firmed up their mobile strategies for delivering wireless broadband services in India."

Most recent data from WiMAX Forum reveals there are more than 407 WiMAX network deployments in 133 countries that exist around the world today, and this number continues to rapidly increase. Toward this end, the WiMAX Forum will reveal new findings on consumer demands on mobile broadband services during the WiMAX Exposition. Additionally, prominent speakers from the Indian and international community will share their own practical deployment case studies and data and examine network planning and optimization opportunities of deploying Mobile WiMAX^TM.

This event, being supported by policy makers of the Government of India, will deliver practical time-tested solutions to meet the key challenges facing operators. The summit also provides the  industry and its leaders an excellent opportunity to learn from the experiences of operators who have successfully deployed mobile broadband around the world.  The WiMAX Forum encourages the financial, educational, e-governance, health, tourism and other communities to join these operators in drawing benefit from exploring the opportunities and challenges facing the Indian market.

All aspects of WiMAX networks and services around deployment, equipment, applications, business, vendors, resources, and training will be covered in the Conference cum Expo. The show encourages attendees to evaluate appropriate feature sets of WiMAX devices including USB dongles, MID, PCM Express cards, Indoor Modems, WiMAX Enabled Note Books (WENB) and a host of other equipment like BS and ASN Gateways. The come and experience format of the technology showcase will highlight innovations in WiMAX devices and equipment, and will directly address business and service launch-related issues.

The 2008 WiMAX for Broadband India Expo is divided into four areas: the WiMAX India Pavilion, the Asia Pavilion, the US Pavilion and the Europe Pavilion. More than 25 exhibitors will exhibit a variety of WiMAX devices, network equipment and application systems, while some vendors will be conducting live demos.  Leading players like Intel Corporation, Lenovo, Motorola, Alvarion, Samsung, Alcatel Lucent, Huawei, CISCO, Nokia Siemens Networks ,Beceem, Telsima L&T, ASUS and Gemtek will be present to present solutions that will help determine when and where operators should launch an overlay WiMAX networks on top of existing GSM NW infrastructure and will display their latest solutions including laptops with embedded WiMAX chipsets. 

About WiMAX Forum®

The WiMAX Forum® is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based upon the harmonized IEEE 802.16/ETSI HiperMAN standard. A WiMAX Forum goal is to accelerate the introduction of these systems into the marketplace. WiMAX Forum Certified products are interoperable and support broadband fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile services. Along these lines, the WiMAX Forum works closely with service providers and regulators to ensure that WiMAX Forum Certified systems meet customer and government requirements. Through the WiMAX Forum Congress Events Series of global trade shows and events, the WiMAX Forum is committed to furthering education, training and collaboration to expand the reach of the WiMAX ecosystem. For more information, visit the trade show link at www.wimaxforum.org <http://www.wimaxforum.org> .

"WiMAX Forum," the WiMAX Forum logo and the WiMAX Forum Certified logo are registered trademarks of the WiMAX Forum.  "WiMAX," "Mobile WiMAX,"

"Fixed WiMAX," "WiMAX Certified," and "WiMAX Forum Certified" are trademarks of the WiMAX Forum.  Third-party trademarks contained in this document are the property of their respective owners.

For more information, please contact Saumya Upadhyaya at Vaishnavi Corporate Communications @ 09971166354/Saumya@vccpl.com

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