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FREMONT, CA - January 30, 2006-
The FLO Forum, an association of wireless industry
leaders focused on the open and global standardization
of FLO™ Technology, announced the successful
completion of a joint workshop with the Broadcast
Mobile Convergence Forum (bmcoforum) in Berlin
last week. The workshop, conducted at the bmcoforum
headquarters, included workshop attendees, who
were primarily from European nations and participated
in a program of presentations and technical discussions.
"Information exchange between
our organizations on shared areas of interest
will impact the success of mobile broadcast market,"
said Claus Sattler, Executive Director, bmcoforum.
"The FLO Forum's progress on the standardization
of FLO technology was valuable information for
our members."
The discussion topics covered the
Forum's overall structure, operations and standardization
goals, including an update on the submission of
the FLO Air Interface Specification to the Telecommunications
Industry Association (TIA)'s TR-47 engineering
committee. Opportunities for advancing FLO technology
standardization globally and in Europe, and regulatory
and spectrum issues common to all mobile broadcasting
technologies were also covered. A detailed technical
introduction and interactive discussion on FLO
Technology was presented by several its key inventors.
"Collaboration with groups
like the Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum is
vital to our technical program," said Dr.
Kamil Grajski, president of the FLO Forum. "We
welcome the opportunity to engage on these important
technical, standards and regulatory activities
directly with some of the leading technology players
in Europe."
About FLO Technology
FLO Technology is a new air interface designed
to support Terrestrial Mobile Multimedia Multicast
(TM3) capabilities to increase capacity and reduce
content delivery costs to mobile handsets. FLO
Technology enables mobile users to see and hear
high quality video and audio, browse news, sports
and weather updates, or watch the stock ticker
- wherever they are, anytime and without delays.
Designed from the ground up specifically
to multicast significant volumes of rich multimedia
content, FLO enables wireless operators to cost-effectively
deliver news, entertainment, and informational
programming in clips and streaming video to millions
of mobile users at once. FLO provides the technology
for distributing multimedia content efficiently
and economically without impacting current networks.
About the Broadcast Mobile Convergence
Forum
The Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum is
an international lobbying association, targeting
to provide a discussion platform for companies
and institutions dealing with the development
of a worldwide open market for mobile broadcast
services.
About the FLO Forum
The FLO Forum is a multi-company initiative committed
to advancing the global standardization of FLO™
technology. Composed of industry-leading organizations,
the FLO Forum works to develop products and services,
based on FLO technology, that enable the delivery
of advanced multimedia services to wireless consumers.
The FLO Forum is organized to promote the global
standardization of FLOTM technology, including
compliance and certification benchmarks for the
technology. For more information on membership
and the FLO Forum, please visit www.floforum.org.
Contact:
Deborah Porchivina
Porchivina & Associates
deborah@papr.com
Phone: 415-272-0943
Fax: 415-883-2387
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FLO is a trademark of QUALCOMM Incorporated.
All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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