HONG KONG -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) today announced that Agni Systems Ltd, an Internet service provider (ISP) in Bangladesh, has started a phased WiMAX deployment to provide wireless broadband access in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and then gradually to other metropolitan cities. The 11-year old ISP's deployment builds upon Motorola's momentum in delivering commercial WiMAX networks around the world.

Commercial services are expected to start in January 2007 and the entire deployment is expected to be completed by mid-2008. Phase one of the deployment will be a fixed outdoor solution using Motorola's Access Point (AP) 100 series system. Phase two, expected to start in Q3 2007, will extend Agni's system to an 802.16-2005 mobile WiMAX system using Motorola's WiMAX Access Point (WAP) 400 series system with MIMO techniques.

Agni's managing director, Mohammed Abdus Salam, said that Motorola's AP 100 series system provides a quick, cost-effective way for Agni to roll out wireless broadband services to areas with high subscriber density in order to quickly realize its ROI objectives. He said: "This will allow Agni to justify its future migration to the carrier class WAP 400 platform that supports fixed, nomadic and mobile subscribers." Salam said he considers the AP 100 series system a first step in enabling Agni to gain experience in preparation for managing a full-fledged WiMAX deployment.

Jay Andersen, vice president, sales for Motorola Networks & Enterprise, South and East Asia, said WiMAX is key to providing high speed wireless broadband in emerging countries like Bangladesh that have a huge population spread over a small area. "With WiMAX, existing operators like Agni can provide wireless high speed data that will be able to support rich applications using voice and data. It also allows operators to connect under- served and un-served markets that represent the next potential growth area in the broadband market."

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