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Neotel Selects Telsima for Its Wimax Network in South Africa

Posted on: Monday, 16 June 2008, 09:00 CDT

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Telsima Corporation, a global leader in WiMAX systems, announces that Neotel, South Africa's first converged network operator, has chosen the Telsima WiMAX technology for its network deployment. Neotel will contract Telsima's regional partner, Tellumat, to provide the equipment and associated turnkey services and support for the deployment of Neotel's WiMAX network.

The Neotel WiMAX network compliments its Metropolitan Area Networks and Local Area Networks by adding a further wireless option to its portfolio, providing a cost and deployment effective broadband wireless solution for corporate customers, small to medium enterprises and residential customers.

Angus Hay Neotel's Chief Technology Officer comments, "Neotel is embarking upon a series of market expansion projects to deploy telephony and Internet services in South Africa. The Neotel WiMAX network enables us to offer these services quickly and economically to the market. Telsima's WiMAX solutions were chosen because their superior performance provides for a greater return on our network investment. Particularly, Telsima's market-hardened WiMAX products and its comprehensive RF Planning, Network Management (NMS) and Provisioning Systems allow for rapid deployment of a proven end-to-end system.

"This is a significant deployment win for Telsima and Tellumat, our regional partner. It once again proves the performance of Telsima's WiMAX systems, underscores the value of the Company's technologies and Tellumat's network planning and integration support," said Bojan Bostjancic, Telsima's President. "Neotel sees tremendous opportunity in expanding access to telecommunications services throughout South Africa and we are excited to participate in its efforts."

The Neotel WiMAX deployment expands Telsima's participation into Southern Africa, one of the fastest growing Broadband Wireless Access markets today. WiMAX offers the South African market a convenient broadband solution to customers for whom wired solutions are not available or viable. WiMAX enables Neotel to provide telephony and Internet access to an underserved population, bridging the digital divide, without to the need to invest in an expensive and inflexible wired network for which the economic return is uncertain.

Wolfgang Mack, Telsima's Chief Marketing Officer added, "Economic and regulatory conditions have changed dramatically in recent years making the African continent one of the most viable for converged telecommunications services over WiMAX networks. The economies of scale and performance enabled by WiMAX allow new services from established service providers and new entrants into the market to construct viable business cases for converged services to residential and business customers. Telsima's WiMAX solutions are achieving significant market traction and adding the Neotel deployment positions the Company well in the booming South African market."

South Africa is a country in which fewer than a quarter of households have access to basic fixed line telecommunications, and only a small fraction of those have broadband Internet access. Neotel is conscious of the role its community service obligations and other corporate social investment initiatives can play in bridging this digital divide.

For the long-term success of South Africa Neotel actively supports the legal, social and moral imperatives of Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE). An integral part of the WiMAX project is to develop the local economy by engaging small, micro- and medium-sized enterprises for the installation and maintenance of the network.

Telsima's innovative WiMAX solutions allow operators to offer fixed, nomadic and mobile services with MIMO performance capacity and ASN network control today. For full details on its WiMAX product portfolio, please visit http://www.telsima.com/ .

About Telsima

Telsima Corporation ( http://www.telsima.com/ ) is the leading provider of Mobile WiMAX and WiMAX Certified Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) solutions. Telsima's award-winning, innovative technologies offer service providers economic advantages, new business models and more capital efficient network investment profiles. The Company has supplied the largest WiMAX Certified deployments in the world, with over 10,000 base station sectors and 100,000 modems sold to Tier 1 operators in India, Eastern Europe, Russia and Africa in 2007. Telsima has been an active Principle Member of the WiMAX Forum since 2004. The Company is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including NewPath Ventures, CMEA Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, JAFCO Asia, Intel Capital and other strategic investors. Telsima is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with development, sales and customer support offices in Bangalore, New Delhi, Mumbai and Ljubljana, Slovenia.

About Neotel

Neotel is South Africa's first converged communications network operator. It provides a range of value-added voice and data services for businesses, wholesale network operators and providers and consumers using its pure-IP Next Generation Network, powered by Neotel's high-performance fibre optic backbone. Neotel connects the major centres in South Africa to each other and to the world, directly linking the country into Tata Communications network. Neotel offers fresh thinking, a creative approach and flexible solutions for communications in South Africa.

Media Contacts USA: Wolfgang Mack Telsima Corp. Tel: +1-408-480-8630 Email: wolfgang.mack@telsima.com Asia: Sangeeta Iyer Telsima Communications Pvt Ltd Tel: +91-981-828-8376 Email: sangeeta.iyer@telsima.com Zinhle Modiselle Neotel Tel: +27-82-576-1284 Email: zinhle.modiselle@neotel.co.za

Telsima Corporation

CONTACT: US Contact - Wolfgang Mack of Telsima, +1-408-480-8630,wolfgang.mack@telsima.com; Asia Contact - Sangeeta Iyer of Telsima,+91-98-1828-8376, sangeeta.iyer@telsima.com; Zinhle Modiselle of Neotel,+27-82-576-1284, zinhle.modiselle@neotel.co.za

Web site: http://www.telsima.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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