The Wall Street Journal names Altobridge as Wireless Technology Innovator 2011

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Altobridge Limited (www.altobridge.com) – leaders in technology that cuts the cost of delivering voice and mobile broadband services across wireless networks – has been named the winner of the Wireless Category in the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards 2011.

The solar powered, satellite backhauled, Altobridge lite-site™ delivers cost-effective mobile voice and commercially viable mobile broadband connectivity to unconnected communities. (Photo: Business Wire)

In its announcement, the Wall Street Journal wrote, “Access to mobile communications is credited with boosting local economies, but almost a quarter of the world’s population doesn’t have affordable access to wireless voice and data services. Altobridge won this category for developing a low-cost solar-powered wireless system called “lite-site” that aims to tackle three big barriers to extending wireless service to remote areas: high capital costs, high operating costs and high transmission costs. Each base station uses only 90 watts of power, making it possible for stations to operate solely on solar energy. And by compressing data transfers, the system needs only about a quarter of the satellite bandwidth normally required.”

At 4G World, the largest global 4G EXPO, in Chicago this week, Altobridge will be showcasing its award winning Altobridge lite-site™ which enables mobile network operators to deliver commercially viable mobile wireless broadband connectivity to rural communities throughout North America. The ultra-low operational overhead cost of the Altobridge lite-site™ is ideally suited to minimising service provider costs for isolated mining communities, border crossing points or for roadside assistance connectivity in vehicle breakdown situations on remote road networks, where wireless coverage does not currently exist. The Altobridge lite-site™ solution is the only cellular system available in the industry today where no transmission costs are generated during periods where no revenue is being generated.

Also on show at 4G World will be the Altobridge Data-at-the-Edge™ solution which delivers cost effective mobile broadband by dramatically reducing mobile data backhaul congestion in high capacity networks through a combination of new features, including bitstream caching within encrypted transport, lossless transport compression and intelligent pre-caching at the radio base station.

About Altobridge

Altobridge wireless network solutions provide a lower capital and lower operating cost option for the delivery of voice and mobile broadband services, enabling mobile network operators to connect unconnected communities and enterprises at minimum cost. Central to this lie a series of patented and patent-pending technologies namely; Altobridge Data-at-the-Edge™ (broadband data optimization in wireless networks), Local Connectivity™ (local voice switching) and Split Architecture™ (transmission and power optimization), all of which, individually and combined, drive down communications delivery costs for mobile network operators by reducing backhaul and power consumption costs. The company is headquartered in Ireland has further bases in San Jose, Malaysia, Indonesia and Shenzhen, covering sales, R&D, customer support and manufacturing.

Altobridge solutions are deployed and operational in over 30 countries worldwide.

Altobridge is a privately held company. Shareholders include its employees, Intel Capital, IFC and Enterprise Ireland.

Further information available at: www.altobridge.com, or follow us on LinkedIn.

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CONTACT:

For Altobridge
Aoife Kimber
Cell phone: +1 (650) 773 7288
Email: akimber@kimberpr.com
or
For business enquiries at 4G World, please contact:
Gerry Collins
Cell phone: +44 7730 266270
Email: gerry.collins@altobridge.com
or
Ian Walter
Cell phone: +1 (650) 714 5347
Email: iwalter@altobridge.com

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The solar powered, satellite backhauled, Altobridge lite-site™ delivers cost-effective mobile voice and commercially viable mobile broadband connectivity to unconnected communities. (Photo: Business Wire)