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Motorola and Barrett Xplore today announce a multi-million
dollar equipment contract for the deployment of a wireless
broadband network in specified cities throughout Canada using
Motorola's Canopy Advantage Platform. The contract has
an initial term of three years and can be extended through
2009 if sales targets are met. If extended, the contract could
be valued at up to US$53 million.
Barrett Xplore, through its Xplornet brand, plans to establish
the first wireless broadband network across Canada. This agreement
expands their existing Canopy network that has been operational
for the past year.
The Canopy Advantage Platform is the latest step in Motorola's
rollout of next generation Canopy wireless broadband products.
With the Canopy Advantage product portfolio, network operators
can grow their business and take advantage of increased speed,
performance and quality of service needed to deliver high-quality
voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and high speed data to
enterprise, small office, home office and residential customers.
"We are excited to share in the vision of a wireless
network to deliver voice and data broadband services to unserved
and underserved communities across Canada," said Tony
Kobrinetz, vice president and general manager of Motorola's
Canopy Wireless Broadband Group.
Barrett Xplore will continue to roll out its Xplornet wireless
broadband services to businesses, residents and enterprises
in suburban areas of Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Ottawa and
Vancouver as well as to Canada's underserved smaller cities
that do not currently have ubiquitous broadband coverage from
either DSL or cable. Xplornet plans to deploy the entire portfolio
of Canopy products, including 900 MegaHertz, 2.4, 5.2 and
5.8 GigaHertz to meet the unique broadband needs across Canada.
"The Canopy wireless broadband solution complements our
high-speed satellite network, allowing us to deliver broadband
services to the underserved and unserved areas of Canada.
The economics of the Canopy solution also enable us to compete
against the existing wired technologies like cable and DSL,"
said Barrett Xplore Chairman Bill Barrett. "Additionally,
the Motorola Canopy Advantage platform provides a path to
licensed exempt WiMAX while also protecting our investment
in our existing networks."
"Barrett's view of providing wireless broadband coverage
to customers currently not well served throughout Canada is
a model that the Canopy platform fully supports. Barrett Xplore
can trust in our roadmap that incorporates a wireless broadband
solution set that is scalable today and provides for an elegant
evolution to future license exempt WiMAX. Our solution set
allows them to offer very high speed data services up to 15
Megabits per second aggregate throughput with toll-quality
VoIP," said Kobrinetz.
Motorola's Canopy wireless broadband is an always-on, high-speed
broadband solution for cost-effective connectivity to private
networks, such as governments or enterprises and to Internet
service providers and carriers. The Canopy system is a scalable,
robust, reliable platform that supports voice and data applications.
Its superior performance promises one of the lowest total
costs of ownership and can significantly reduce a provider's
start-up, maintenance and leased-line costs. The Canopy point-to-point
and point-to-multipoint system configurations are being deployed
in more than 85 countries around the world. Please visit our
website at www.motorola.com/canopy
and the online magazine Connections at www.connectwithcanopy.com.
Barrett Xplore Inc (www.barrettxplore.com)
- through its Xplornet brand - is Canada's largest and fastest
growing broadband wireless Service Provider. Through a combination
of industry leading technology, superior high-speed service
delivery and best in class customer service, Xplornet (www.xplornet.com)
will bring the advantages of broadband connectivity to underserved
businesses and residences across Canada, no matter where they
are located. Additionally, Barrett Xplore has built a strong
platform in the sales and distribution of consumer electronics
products and accessories for leading brands such as Star Choice,
Philips and Fellowes. Barrett Xplore is a privately held company
owned by Barrett Corporation of Woodstock, New Brunswick and
Sandler Capital Management New York (www.sandlercap.com).
Motorola is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that
provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband,
embedded systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto,
workplace, and all spaces in between, seamless mobility means
you can reach the people, things and information you need,
anywhere, anytime. Seamless mobility harnesses the power of
technology convergence and enables smarter, faster, cost-effective
and flexible communication. Motorola had sales of US$27.1
billion in 2003. For more information: www.motorola.com.
Sue Moore
Motorola's Canopy Wireless Broadband Group
+1-847-576-5776
Sue.Moore@motorola.com
Bruce Barr
Barrett Xplore, Inc.
+1-905-792-6057
Bruces@barrettexplore.com
Roderick Kelly
Kelly+LoDestro Global Relations
+1-630-761-0700 office
+1-630-650-6730 mobile
Roderick@kellylodestro.com
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