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NextWave Network Products CEO to Deliver Mobile TV Presentation at Mobile World Congress
Dr. Bill Jones, CEO of NextWave Network Products, and Marc Fossier, CTO of France Telecom, Will Deliver Presentation on Mobile TV Over 3G With MBMS
| Source: NextWave
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - February 8, 2008) - NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ : WAVE ), a
global provider of mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies,
today announced that Dr. Bill Jones, CEO of NextWave Network Products, and
Marc Fossier, CTO of France Telecom, will deliver the opening presentation
of the Mobile TV track -- "Mobile TV - Technology Debate: Delivering Mobile
TV Over 3G with MBMS" -- at the Mobile World Congress next week in
Barcelona. The session will be held on Tuesday, February 12th, from 11:40
- 13:10.
The presentation will draw upon the experiences of Orange and NextWave in
trialing TDtv™, and explore how as an industry mobile operators and the
entire mobile value chain can work together to advance mobile TV and offer
subscribers innovative multimedia and broadcast services. The discussion
will also detail how 3G operators can use their currently-idle unpaired
spectrum to deliver compelling multicast mobile TV services using an MBMS
that is cost-effective for mass-market deployment.
Today, European operators looking to deliver multicast mobile TV services
are faced with a range of broadcast or cellular-based technologies.
However, the core issue remains the availability of spectrum and the fact
that many mobile broadcast solutions require either completely new spectrum
or partnerships with broadcasters. NextWave's TDtv solution, the UMTS
TD-CDMA 3GPP MBMS standard for mobile TV, is the only mobile broadcast
solution specifically designed to operate on a UMTS operator's existing
unpaired 3G spectrum.
In 2007 Vodafone, Telefónica, Orange, and 3UK announced successful results
of a technical trial of TDtv, which successfully delivered 11-14 high
quality channels in only 5MHz of TDD spectrum. The trial also demonstrated
how TDtv offers comparable coverage to WCDMA with less cell sites, the
ability of TDtv to support users at vehicular speeds, and the viability of
dual-mode TDtv/WCDMA handsets.
NextWave will be demonstrating TDtv along with a wide range of mobile
multimedia broadcast and mobile broadband technologies at the Mobile World
Congress on Stand #AV40.
About NextWave Wireless
NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ : WAVE ) is engineering the future of mobility
by providing next-generation mobile multimedia and wireless broadband
technologies to the world's leading mobile handset manufacturers, consumer
electronics manufacturers and wireless service providers. From mobile
television and mobile broadband systems to semiconductors and
device-embedded mobile multimedia software that can be found in more than
200 million handsets around the globe, NextWave is evolving the way
consumers experience mobile multimedia content. Mobile broadband networks
powered by NextWave's 4G evolution technologies have been deployed by
operators around the world including T-Mobile in the Czech Republic and the
City of New York which is launching the largest public-safety mobile
broadband network in the world. NextWave's award-winning and field-proven
TDtv technology provides UMTS operators the most cost-effective and
flexible means to deliver mobile television and multimedia broadcast
services by using their existing spectrum. NextWave Wireless is
headquartered in San Diego, California, U.S.A., and has offices in over a
dozen countries. Visit NextWave Wireless at www.nextwave.com.
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