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MobiTV Demos Live High Definition Television Over WiMAX Network
MobiTV and Navini Networks Look Beyond Broadcast Technologies to the Future of Interactive Television – Demonstrating WiMAX at CTIA
CTIA – LOS ANGELES, CA, September 11, 2006 – MobiTV, Inc., the global leader in mobile and broadband television and music services, today announced it will offer attendees of the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show demonstrations of live High-Definition television delivered over a pre-mobile WiMAX network. The real-time demonstration will showcase the MobiTV® service running over Navini’s Ripwaveä MX equipment to both fixed and mobile customer premises equipment. This will provide attendees with a preview of several ‘Proof of Concepts’ planned for later this year.
“This is a critical time in the evolution of television and we are steadfast in our commitment to back the best standards for our partners and consumers alike,” said Dr. Phillip Alvelda, CEO, chairman and co-founder of MobiTV. “In a few short weeks we have announced our official support for the WiMAX standard, been invited to join the WiMAX Forum as a contributing member to their mobile applications initiatives, and now will demonstrate live HD TV running over a WiMAX network. WiMAX is real and we’re committed to ensuring its success as a global standard.”
“Personal broadband is about bringing the freedom of wireless to broadband, and Navini has the most commercial experience in delivering personal broadband,” said Sai Subramanian, Navini’s vice president of product management and strategic marketing. “Consumers are demanding new applications like MobiTV and VoIP, and Navini’s pre-mobile WiMAX platforms commercially support mobile applications initiatives today and offer an over-the-air upgrade to the mobile WiMAX standard.”
WiMAX and mobile WiMAX are the latest extensions to MobiTV’s portfolio of supported network technologies, with features designed to support all of the key components that make mobile television viable to consumers and carriers alike.
Please visit booth #1061 at CTIA September 12th – 14th for a personal demonstration.
About Navini Networks
With the largest commercial deployments in the world, over
50 commercial networks in 6 continents and strategic partnerships
with industry leaders, Navini Networks is the leader in providing
portable, plug-n-play broadband wireless access solutions. Navini
is the only company with patented smart beamforming technology,
enabling personal broadband for the mass market today, with
a seamless upgrade to the Mobile WiMAX standard to deliver
Smart WiMAXä, (Smart WiMAX is the combination of mobile
WiMAX and Smart Beamforming which is critical for personal
broadband). Navini's Ripwave® MX portable, zero-installä,
non-line-of-sight (NLOS) solution consists of customer modems,
base stations, and element management systems (EMS) run in
the full range of spectrums with software upgrades to the
IEEE 802.16e standard. Navini Networks is a principal member
of the WiMAX Forum and the IEEE 802.16e committee and is
headquartered in Richardson, Texas. www.navini.com.
About MobiTV
MobiTV, Inc. (www.mobitv.com)
is leading the convergence of television, film and music content
across the mobile and personal computing markets. The
Emmy® Award winning service has more than one million subscribers
and offers popular TV and digital radio channels from top labels,
networks and cable providers. The MobiTV® service
is available in; the US through AT&T, Sprint, Cingular,
Alltel; the UK through 3UK and Orange; in Canada through Bell
Canada, Rogers and TELUS Mobility; in Latin America through
América Móvil, Claro and Telcel; and other regional
carriers internationally. Founded in 1999, MobiTV is
a privately-held company headquartered in Emeryville, CA.
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