Nokia Marks WiMAX Milestone with Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station

Nokia announced the Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station, an innovation that
will revolutionize the way broadband wireless networks will be built
while minimizing operating and capital expenditures for broadband
wireless operators. The introduction of the Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base
Station shows Nokia's engagement in mobile WiMAX and is rooted in the
company's global expertise in wireless network deployments.

Operators will benefit from the small and modular design of the Nokia
Flexi WiMAX Base Station, which can optimize the costs of siting and
operating WiMAX infrastructure. The compact size and light weight
design of the base station modules minimizes the space needed, power
consumption, and physical effort to install and run high quality WiMAX
networks, and uses existing or new base station sites efficiently. It
can be installed both indoors and outdoors and does not require air
conditioning. Furthermore, its modularity will allow for easy capacity
upgrades as traffic increases.

The Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station will be commercially available for
the 2.5 GHz band at the end of 2007 and for 3.5 GHz in 1Q 2008.
WiMAX-capable Nokia mobile devices are expected to be available in
2008.

"As the world is going wireless we believe the Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base
Station offers broadband operators an easy and trusted way to offer
wireless Internet connectivity to their customers anytime, anywhere,"
says Ari Lehtoranta, Senior Vice President, Radio Networks, Nokia.
"Nokia is a strong believer in having a multiradio strategy that
gives operators a future-proof solution and the flexibility to choose
different technologies as they evolve."

The Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station is part of Nokia's overall mobile
WiMAX solution, which complements its current solutions to operators in
cellular radio access technologies. Nokia's WiMAX solution includes
unique end-to-end infrastructure capabilities with radio and core
network solutions along with a comprehensive services business
solutions portfolio. Nokia Services include fluent processes for
planning, building, optimizing, maintaining networks, integrating
end-user services to the network as well as taking on greater
responsibilities for service delivery through managed service
operations. Nokia's mobile WiMAX solution is designed to work
seamlessly with Nokia Unified Core Networks and IP Multimedia
Subsystem.

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