EMAX Launches Pre-Mobile WiMAX Network in Peru With Navini; Personal Broadband Network to Provide Nationwide Coverage

EMAX Launches Pre-Mobile WiMAX Network in Peru With Navini; Personal Broadband Network to Provide Nationwide Coverage

February 12, 2007

    LIMA, Peru and RICHARDSON, Texas, Feb. 12
/Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- EMAX S.A., an Internet service
provider based in Lima, Peru, has launched the first
personal broadband network in Peru, using wireless
pre-mobile WiMAX solutions from Navini Networks, the
leading provider of pre-mobile WiMAX equipment.

    Lima is the capital of Peru, and the first deployment
to over 8 million POPs.  The deployment in Lima has been
very successful, with estimated coverage area of over 700
square kilometers.  EMAX plans to expand into 7 more cities
all around Peru.  

    EMAX selected Navini after a thorough comparison and
testing of various vendors and determined that Navini's
technology is the only one that met EMAX's requirements
offering a real NLOS capacity and proven commercial
experience.

    "The acceptance of wireless broadband has been
really good, with clients who look for simplicity and the
ability to move in the coverage area, as well as ease of
activation," said Mr. Genaro Delgado Parker, 
President of EMAX.  "Clients can buy this in the
retail store."

    "Navini's Ripwave(R) MX solution offers EMAX the
ability to quickly cover Lima and the rest of Peru, as well
as provide customers with plug-n-play wireless
broadband," said Roger Dorf, CEO and president of
Navini Networks.  

    In less than a year, EMAX has exceeded its planned
subscriber numbers and is now planning to completely cover
Lima.  This ambitious plan will see complete coverage of
Lima/ Callao in 2007.    

    "We want national coverage in broadband and are
already planning expansion into the main cities of Peru -
Trujillo, Piura and Arequipa," added Mr. Delgado
Parker.

    In the meantime, EMAX is planning to obtain spectrum in
the rest of Peru in order to expand to other key areas. EMAX
will be the first company of mobile WiMAX 802.16e in Peru.
    
    About EMAX:

    EMAX S.A. is a part of the company TC Siglo 21 (TC 21st
Century), a cable TV operator in Lima, Peru, owned by
Vicmar, an GDP Investment Inc.  TC 21st Century is a
company with more than 15 years experience in the Peruvian
market.  Part of its video offer is carried out through the
MMDS system, due to the fact that it possesses the LIMA
/CALLAO license of the MMDS band 2.5-2.7 Ghz.

    EMAX began operations in 2004 as an Internet Service
Provider with operations in Lima, Peru.

    About Navini Networks:

    Navini Networks is the leader in providing portable,
plug-n-play broadband wireless access solutions, with the
largest commercial deployments in the world, over 70
commercial networks in 6 continents and strategic
partnerships with industry leaders.  Navini is the only
company that has the patented Smart Beamforming technology,
enabling personal broadband for the mass market today, with
a seamless upgrade to the Mobile WiMAX standard to deliver
Smart WiMAX(TM). (Smart WiMAX(TM) is the combination of
mobile WiMAX with Smart Beamforming & MIMO).  Navini's
Ripwave(R) MX portable, zero-install(TM), non-line-of-sight
(NLOS) solution consists of customer modems, base stations,
and element management systems (EMS) that run in the full
range of spectrums with software upgrades to the IEEE
802.16e standard. 

    Navini Networks is a principal member of the WiMAX
Forum and the IEEE 802.16e committee.  Headquartered in
Richardson, Texas. 

    http://www.navini.com 

    Come see Navini at 3GSM ... Hall 2, Booth 2H03....


    For more information, please contact: 

     Navini Networks, Inc.
     Maryvonne Tubb 
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]


SOURCE  Navini Networks, Inc.