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Airspan Networks successfully deployed its world-leading combined WiMax/WiFi solution at the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar

January 2, 2007

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BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Airspan Networks Inc (NASDAQ:AIRN - News) today announced it successfully deployed its world-leading combined WiMAX/Wi-Fi solution at the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. The network was built and operated by Airspan and its partner, Consolidated Gulf Co. W.L.L. ("CGC"), for Qatar Telecom ("QTel").

Qatar Telecom (QTEL), which is an existing Airspan AS4020 customer, selected Airspan's WiMAX/Wi-Fi solution from a joint proposal submitted in a competitive tender process by Airspan and CGC. Airspan supplied its MacroMAX and MicroMAX -- System-on-a-Chip ("SOC") base stations, which connected to 300 ProST / Wi-Fi customer access points to create HotZones across the sites where the Games took place. The MicroMAX-SOC, Airspan's latest WiMAX base station, is the first low-cost WiMAX solution to be sold to the carrier, enterprise, and defense markets.

The network was used to provide international news media with high-speed Internet access for data, VoIP and multimedia (picture/video clips) transmissions. Users obtained Internet access primarily through the Wi-Fi HotZones, which were backhauled by WiMAX to the Internet. Direct WiMAX access was also available for high-bandwidth applications. The network provided viewers with real-time, live news updates, and instant event coverage through the uploading to media websites of pictures and recorded video clips for special events.

Commenting on this highly successful, high-profile deployment, Eric Stonestrom, CEO of Airspan Networks, said that, "Airspan was delighted to have been chosen by QTel for the very important task of providing broadband wireless connectivity to the world's leading media during the fifteen days of games in Doha. With CGC as our partner, we worked tirelessly to ensure that the solution set the standard by which internet connectivity and communications at other events will be measured."

Airspan Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: AIRN)

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