Alpha Networks Selects the TeleCIS Wireless WiMAX Chip for Indoor and Portable Consumer Products; Agreement First Targets ''M-Taiwan'' Services with Product Availability in 4Q 2006

Business Wire, Sept 12, 2006

TAIPEI, Taiwan & SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Alpha Networks Inc., a leading international ODM/OEM of networking products, and TeleCIS Wireless Inc., a leading developer of SoC broadband wireless chips, today announced a product development agreement to deliver indoor and portable WiMAX consumer devices. Alpha Networks selected the TeleCIS TCW 1620 chip for a line of products it is developing for broadband wireless access (BWA) initiatives, initially focusing on M-Taiwan, Taiwan's extensive mobile internet and mobile services infrastructure development project. Alpha Networks plans to introduce "M-Taiwan" WiMAX products in the 4Q 2006 and looks to also serve other world WiMAX markets with these and future products incorporating the TeleCIS chip.

"We selected the TCW 1620 because we need superior fixed and portable WiMAX capabilities to meet the stringent M-Taiwan requirements," said Jeff Lin, Director at Alpha Networks. "TeleCIS is the only company with the requisite high performance, small form factor and low power consumption we need for these products."

"We are thrilled with the market traction generated by the advanced performance features of the TCW 1620," said David Sumi, VP of Product Management and Marketing at TeleCIS Wireless. "We are honored by Alpha's selection of our product and will work closely with them so that they benefit fully from our design and engineering experience with OFDM broadband wireless solutions and our performance enhancing techniques, known as Rx Technologies(TM)."

Alpha Networks is part of a trend that will create a true "mass market" for WiMAX services by enabling lower cost fixed and portable BWA based on the existing WiMAX Fixed standard. For operators of WiMAX Fixed networks, including ISPs and WISPs in urban and suburban areas, the availability of these self-installable indoor fixed and portable WiMAX devices will substantially increase the subscriber base beyond the traditional residential/fixed WiMAX market and dramatically improve the operator's business opportunities and ability to achieve critical objectives for a profitable business model. According to a recent report from Rethink Research (London), global WiMAX infrastructure spending will rise from $655M in 2006 to more than $7B in 2009 and WiMAX spending will go from 22.5% of all BWA spending in 2006 to be the dominant platform in the market, with a 63% share. Moving forward, the company plans on maintaining its industry leading product position with its next chip, targeting WiMAX Mobile. This SoC will continue to be the smallest size, lowest power and highest performance (up to 15dB performance advantage) in the WiMAX Mobile market. It is expected that this chip will do particularly well in the handset market as the power and performance requirements are much more difficult than those in computing device applications.

Unveiled by Premier Shyi-Ku Yu in early May 2002, M-Taiwan is a derivative of e-Taiwan, a six-year national development plan designed to create a mobile 'Ubiquitous Network' and e-services throughout Taiwan and to enable Taiwan to boast the most widespread internet services in Asia, with people able to access the Internet through wireless LAN and their mobile phone just about anywhere in Taiwan.

About Alpha Networks

Alpha Networks, Inc. is a distinctive leader in the Networking ODM/OEM industry, offering innovative and professional engineering, manufacturing, and service to brand-name networking companies, integrators, telecommunications firms, and service providers around the world. For many years, Alpha Networks' design and manufacturing engineers have focused exclusively on developing high-quality, cost-effective networking products that fully reflect the needs of the customer at the present and in the future. Alpha's strength is in combining the potential of Ethernet LAN/WAN, Wireless, and Broadband networking technologies to produce the ideal product strategy and solution that customers are looking for.

Based in Taiwan's Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park, Alpha has more than 4500 employees globally. Alpha's revenue for 2005 was USD$550 million. At present, Alpha owns five R&D centers worldwide and has sales offices in North America and Japan. For more information about Alpha Networks, please visit http://www.alphanetworks.com.

About TeleCIS Wireless

TeleCIS Wireless, Inc. (www.telecis.com) is a Silicon Valley-based, fabless semiconductor company dedicated to delivering multi-protocol System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Broadband Wireless chips with industry leading range and quality of service. The company's first product is a WiMAX Fixed/Portable chip, followed by a low power, high performance WiMax Mobile chip. TeleCIS has been named a winner of the "Red Herring 100 North America" 2006, the magazine's award for the most innovative, disruptive and promising technology companies, and also FierceWiFi's "2006 Fierce 15," the newsletter's award honoring companies for innovation in the wireless broadband marketplace.