[March 01, 2017]

Altiostar vRAN Receives Multiple GLOMO Awards Including CTO's Choice Award and Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough Award

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS--Altiostar, the pioneer in vRAN technology, announced today that it has been honored with multiple Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards for its Altiostar vRAN technology. GSMA's (News - Alert) annual awards, presented during Mobile World Congress, recognize those companies and individuals that are driving innovation in the rapidly evolving mobile industry. Altiostar vRAN was selected by a panel of CTOs for the Overall Outstanding Mobile Technology, for what they perceive to be the supreme overall champion of mobile technology for 2017. Altiostar vRAN also received the Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough Award and was recognized as a finalist in the Best Mobile Infrastructure category.

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Altiostar vRAN wins CTO's Choice for Overall Outstanding Mobile Technology as well as Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough at Mobile World Congress (News - Alert) 2017. (Graphic: Business Wire)

Altiostar's field-proven vRAN solution is the world's first commercially available virtualized RAN solution with a flexible IP/Ethernet Fronthaul. Altiostar vRAN solves the capacity crunch and customer churn that come from network quality issues with the legacy RAN, by using the spectrum and cell sites already in use. With Altiostar vRAN, mobile operators can maximize the potental of their spectrum holding by unrestricted and network-wide coordination capability for LTE (News - Alert)-A features, apply application intelligence to every data session using MEC and lower operational cost by simplifying the sites with fewer equipment to install. It allows mobile operators to achieve a better return on investment and provides a foundation for 5G.

"Mobile World Congress is the largest telecommunications show in the world and the show's annual GLOMO Awards recognize the industry's best," said Kuntal Chowdhury, vice president of product management and marketing. "Altiostar is honored to not only receive the GLOMO Award for Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough for our Altiostar vRAN technology and shortlisted for the Best Mobile Infrastructure, but also for it to be recognized among CTOs as the overall outstanding mobile technology."

"Our congratulations to all of the winners and nominees of the GSMA's GLOMO Awards at Mobile World Congress this week," said Michael O'Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA. "The GLOMO Awards truly showcase those companies and individuals that are driving innovation in the rapidly evolving mobile industry. We thank all of our entrants, judges, sponsors and partners for supporting the 2017 GLOMO Awards."

About the GSMA

The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting nearly 800 operators with almost 300 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and internet companies, as well as organisations in adjacent industry sectors. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress Shanghai, Mobile World Congress Americas and the Mobile 360 Series of conferences.

For more information, please visit the GSMA corporate website at www.gsma.com. Follow the GSMA on Twitter (News - Alert): @GSMA.

About Altiostar

Altiostar is the pioneer in virtualized RAN (vRAN) with Ethernet fronthaul. Its unique eNodeB solution is designed to improve quality of experience of the mobile network, enhance spectral efficiency and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Altiostar has developed a wide portfolio of eNodeB solutions for all the major LTE frequencies and for all deployment scenarios. The vRAN solution is the foundation for evolution towards 5G. It provides elastic scalability, low-risk innovation, with a common NFV+SDN enabled platform. This provides significant cost savings, using commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and LTE-Advanced feature capability, based on C-RAN architecture. vRAN offers the most efficient platform to make Mobile Edge (News - Alert) Computing a reality and provides a foundation for 5G. http://www.altiostar.com or follow us on Twitter @altiostar.

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