Taipei City, Nortel to Share Broadband Vision at 2006 Digital Cities ConventionJUNE 27, 2006

TAIPEI, Taiwan – The Taipei City Government and Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT] will share the experience of creating city-wide broadband wireless networks to drive productivity and power commerce with civic and business leaders from around the world at the 2006 Digital Cities Convention in Taipei, June 28-30.

Earlier this month in New York, competing against six other cities, Taipei was awarded the ‘2006 Intelligent Community of the Year’ by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) in recognition of its transformation into a wireless cyber-city. ICF is a nonprofit organization formed in 2000 by the World Teleport Association. ICF focuses on job creation and economic development in the broadband economy.

When implementation is completed in 2006, Taipei expects to provide coverage for 90 percent of its population via 5,000 access points deployed across the city’s 272 square kilometers. Nortel provided the urban wireless broadband infrastructure, based on its Wireless Mesh Network Solution.