devices. These services include Internet access, email, music downloads, video, IP-TV, gaming, push-to-talk, and voice-over-IP. The company is developing fixed-mobile convergence products that would enable operators to take advantage of wireline broadband connections that already exist in offices and homes to deliver wireless services through a combination of mobile and Wi-Fi networks. Airvana, Inc. has strategic relationships with Nortel Networks, Nokia Siemens Networks, Thomson, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Hitachi, Pirelli Broadband Solutions, and Qualcomm. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts with additional offices in Dallas, Texas; Bangalore, India; Cambridge, the United Kingdom; Madrid, Spain; Darmstadt, Germany; Beijing, China; Singapore, Singapore; and Tokyo, Japan.

As of Dec 2009 Airvana (NASDAQ: AIRV) has entered into a definitive agreement with a newly formed company to be owned by affiliates of S.A.C. Private Capital Group, LLC, GSO Capital Partners LP, Sankaty Advisors LLC and ZelnickMedia, in a transaction valued at approximately $530 million.