Cities, Governments Go Mobile With Nortel Municipal Wireless Solution

Minneapolis, Minnesota (ots/PRNewswire) -

- New Deployments Fuel Economic Development, Lower Operational
Costs and Increase Public Safety

Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) today announced new municipal wireless
deployments that demonstrate the Company's strength in helping
governments embrace broadband wireless as a strategic way to deliver
efficient services that keep communities safe and productive, as
well as economically competitive.

From rural to urban deployments, Nortel's Municipal Wireless
Solution is being used by several new customers in North America,
including Carlsbad, New Mexico; Occoquan Wireless in Occoquan,
Virginia and Ronco Communications in Niagara County, New York.

Nortel combines a comprehensive portfolio of Wireless Mesh,
Wireless LAN and WiMAX technologies with a full suite of Nortel
Global Services, giving customers the solutions they need to design,
deploy, support and evolve municipal wireless networks. Nortel's
experience designing, launching and installing hundreds of public
and private wireless networks around the world helps customers
offset risk in building privately-funded networks. For
municipalities interested in partnering with private sector
companies, Nortel can help connect customers with operators that
best meet the economic development and public safety needs of the
community.

With a population of 26,000, Carlsbad, New Mexico is on the brink
of massive and rapid economic growth. The city's close proximity to
California makes it an attractive location for high tech and
hospitality businesses, as well as an ideal travel destination for
thousands of tourists each year. To compliment the success of the
growing community, the Carlsbad Department of Development worked
with local service provider Windstream Communications to deploy
Nortel's Wireless Mesh Network solution to create a wireless hot zone
covering the commercial downtown area. The new network enables
residents and visitors to use laptops or wireless handheld devices
to access the public Internet and helps the City of Carlsbad expand
its economic opportunities by attracting and retaining new
businesses.

"With an influx of economic activity and new growth, we needed a
broadband wireless service that would further Carlsbad's ability to
compete with other urban areas for new business while at the same
time maintaining the charm of its small town roots, and Nortel gave
us the perfect solution," said Robert Detweiler, executive director,
Carlsbad Department of Development. "Our long term vision is to
expand wireless broadband access throughout the city and into many
of the new complexes being built along the Pecos River. As our
community grows, so too will our wireless network-it is the backbone
of our economic development."

The picturesque town of Occoquan, Virginia is situated 20 miles
south of Washington, D.C. on the banks of the Occoquan River and has
gained notoriety as one of America's most haunted towns. Occoquan
Wireless, a franchise of Annapolis Wireless, is using Nortel's
Wireless Mesh Network solution to deliver broadband service in
Occoquan for merchants, residents and the thousands of tourists who
visit the town each year. By offering sponsorships and advertising
on its splash page to local businesses, Occoquan Wireless is able to
provide wireless broadband coverage free of charge across Occoquan's
waterfront Historic District which features more than 100 antique,
art and craft shops and restaurants, as well as a bustling marina.

"One of our most important goals is to improve conditions for
merchants and visitors in our historic district, and wireless
broadband access is an important step in that direction," said
Earnie Porta, mayor of Occoquan.

Nortel is showcasing its Municipal Wireless Solution at
Muniwireless 2006 Minneapolis, October 23-24, demonstrating how
broadband wireless deployments can help governments lower
operational costs, enhance the level of municipal government
services and increase economic development and public safety for
communities.

About Nortel

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications
capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power
global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical
information. Our next-generation technologies, for both service
providers and enterprises, span access and core networks, support
multimedia and business-critical applications, and help eliminate
today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying
networks and connecting people with information. Nortel does
business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit
Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news,
visit www.nortel.com/news.

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