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Sierra Wireless AirCard® 850 wireless data card now available from O2 UK


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November 27, 2006 - Vancouver, Canada and London, United Kingdom – Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR - TSX: SW) and O2 UK today announced that O2 has selected the Sierra Wireless AirCard® 850 wireless wide area PC Card to provide 3G network access for customers in the United Kingdom. With the AirCard 850, O2 customers have high-speed wireless connectivity to 3G networks across Europe, providing access to their email, the Internet, and online applications at broadband speeds.

The AirCard 850 data card is available today from O2 through the company’s business and retail channels and online at www.o2.co.uk. Sierra Wireless, O2, and Manx Telecom previously collaborated to launch AirCard 850 data cards on Manx Telecom’s network on the Isle of Man.

“The addition of the Sierra Wireless AirCard 850 data card to our product line will enable our customers to work wirelessly at speeds comparable to what they experience on a wired network,” said Robert Guest, Marketing Manager for O2 UK. “O2 is committed to offering customers the best technology available, and the launch of the AirCard 850 on the O2 network is a key part of that.”

“O2 wireless data customers depend on their connections to deliver crucial corporate information to headquarters, to access company information in real time, and to collaborate with colleagues from anywhere,” said Jim Lahey, Vice President, EMEA for Sierra Wireless. “We remain committed to enabling mobile customers to work more reliably and more efficiently than ever before.”

AirCard® 850
The AirCard 850 is manufactured by Sierra Wireless and is a 3G wireless WAN Type II PC Card with a slim, unextended design, allowing users to conveniently store the card inside the laptop. Fully functional on HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE, and GPRS networks, the card utilizes the 2100 MHz UMTS frequency band and is targeted primarily for use in Europe, offering average data rates of 500 to 800 kbps, with bursts over 1 Mbps on HSDPA networks*. In areas where HSDPA or UMTS network coverage is not available, the card will connect to EDGE and GSM/GPRS networks and enable international roaming on all four frequency bands (850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz) used worldwide.

For more information about the Sierra Wireless AirCard 850, please visit http://www.sierrawireless.com/product/ac850.aspx. To contact the Sierra Wireless Sales Desk, call 604-232-1488 or e-mail sales@sierrawireless.com.

*Subject to network availability.

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About O2
O2 comprises mobile network operators in the UK and Ireland, along with integrated fixed/mobile businesses in Germany and the Czech Republic (Cesky Telecom). It also owns 50% of the Tesco Mobile and Tchibo Mobilfunk joint venture businesses in the UK and Germany respectively. In addition, the group includes O2 Airwave, which supplies secure digital communications to the emergency services and other public safety organisations.

O2 plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telefónica S.A., 2006, is headquartered in Slough, UK, and has more than 35 million customers across Europe.

About Sierra Wireless
Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIRTSX: SW) develops and markets reliable, high quality wireless communications products that provide mobile professionals with data and voice access to wide area wireless networks. The Sierra Wireless product portfolio includes the award-winning AirCard® line of wireless modems, embedded modules for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and the MP line of rugged, vehicle-mounted wireless modems. Sierra Wireless also offers professional services to OEM customers during product development, leveraging the company’s expertise in wireless design and integration to provide built-in wireless connectivity for notebook computers and other portable computing devices. Sierra Wireless is headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, with additional offices in Carlsbad, California, London, and Hong Kong. For more information about Sierra Wireless, please visit www.sierrawireless.com.

“AirCard” is a registered trademark of Sierra Wireless. Other product or service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements relate to, among other things, plans and timing for the introduction or enhancement of our services and products, statements about future market conditions, supply conditions, channel and end customer demand conditions, revenues, gross margins, operating expenses, profits, and other expectations, intentions, and plans contained in this press release that are not historical fact. Our expectations regarding future revenues and earnings depend in part upon our ability to successfully develop, manufacture, and supply products that we do not produce today and that meet defined specifications. When used in this press release, the words “plan”, “expect”, “believe”, and similar expressions generally identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect our current expectations. They are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, changes in technology and changes in the wireless data communications market. In light of the many risks and uncertainties surrounding the wireless data communications market, you should understand that we cannot assure you that the forward-looking statements contained in this press release will be realized.



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