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NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE), a global provider of mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies, will showcase its complete range of innovative products and services at the upcoming 2008 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (February 11-14, 2008). During the event, NextWave plans to make a number of important announcements that will further the company's leadership in providing the products and technologies needed to enable next-generation mobile multimedia services for customers around the world. These announcements will include news related to mobile TV, LTE, advances in NextWave's WiMAX technology and ecosystem, and mobile media content solutions.
"Major operators and handset manufacturers around the world today depend on NextWave for a wide range of essential mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies," said Allen Salmasi, CEO of NextWave Wireless. "At this year's Mobile World Congress we will be showcasing an exciting lineup of innovative products and services that will take mobile multimedia into a new realm for our customers."
NextWave Products Showcase
Among the products and technologies that will be demonstrated by NextWave Wireless (Stand #AV40) at Mobile World Congress are:
TDtv(TM) - Designed to operate on existing 3G spectrum, TDtv is a high-performance, UMTS-based mobile TV solution that delivers up to 28 channels of high-quality, live television programming to TDtv-enabled WCDMA handsets. TDtv represents a breakthrough in reducing the cost of implementing mobile television and provides UMTS operators around the world with a powerful multimedia and advertising platform.
V5(TM) Base Station - Based on NextWave's widely-deployed TD-CDMA base station platform, the V5 is designed to deliver the ultimate in performance and flexibility by offering mobile operators the industry's only 3GPP TD-CDMA base station with an evolutionary path to WiMAX and LTE.
ER-7(TM) - Based on the 3GPP Release 7 standard for TD-CDMA, ER-7 is an advanced mobile broadband platform that incorporates key NextWave technologies that can significantly bolster the operator business case for mobile broadband. ER-7 includes interference cancellation technology that triples cell edge throughput performance and doubles overall system capacity, as well as advanced quality-of-service capabilities to increase overall revenue potential.
At the stand, NextWave will also preview the expanding WiMAX ecosystem which delivers NextWave's "no compromise", end-to-end WiMAX solution which combines industry-proven wireless innovations and the company's family of advanced WiMAX semiconductors.
In addition, PacketVideo (PV), a NextWave subsidiary, and the industry's leading independent supplier of device-embedded multimedia software, will debut new solutions for the rapid expansion of mobile media services (Stand #1C09).
Panel Sessions
Two NextWave Wireless executives will be speaking at Mobile World Congress:
-- Bill Jones, CEO of NextWave Network Products, will join Marc Fossier, CTO of France Telecom, to deliver the opening presentation of the Mobile TV track - "Mobile TV - Technology Debate: Delivering Mobile TV Over 3G with MBMS." The session will be held on Tuesday, February 12, from 11:40 - 13:00.
-- Joel Espelien, Chief Business Officer and Vice President of Strategy for PV, will participate in a FLO Forum roundtable. The session will be held on Tuesday, February 12, from 11:00 - 13:00 in Media Center Hall 2.
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. In addition, the company's global spectrum footprint allows service providers to deploy next-generation wireless broadband networks utilizing NextWave's advanced wireless broadband products and technologies. For more information, visit NextWave at www.nextwave.com.
Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" for purposes of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurances that forward-looking statements will be achieved, and actual events or results could differ materially from the events or results predicted by such statements. Important factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially are discussed in greater detail in the filings of NextWave with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All such documents are available through the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. NextWave makes no commitment to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect subsequent changes in events or circumstances except as may be required pursuant to applicable law.
Source: Business Wire (Business Wire India)