FREMONT, CA - February 6, 2007 - The FLO Forum, a group of wireless industry leaders supporting FLO (Forward Link-Only) technology, today announced that the FLO Transport Specification has been submitted to the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-47.1 subcommittee. This technical contribution will be reviewed under the recently approved TIA TR47.1 work item PN-3-0270, Forward Link Only Transport Specification, and marks yet another significant milestone in the open standardization of FLO technology.

The proposed standard specifies the framing formats and procedures for delivering application service packets securely over the FLO air interface (TIA-1099). The Framing (upper) layer defined in the FLO Transport Specification delivers variable-sized service packets, such as compressed video and audio or IP data, as a set of fixed-size frames. The Stream Encryption/Decryption (lower) layer defined in the FLO Transport Specification provides optional encryption/decryption services for those service streams subject to conditional access.

The FLO Transport Specification was developed and ratified within the FLO Forum Technical Committee. Conditional access developers Nagravision and NDS were active contributors underscoring the vital role that FLO Forum membership plays in the development and standardization of FLO technical specifications.

"The specification ensures consumers will receive a consistently high level of service, while guaranteeing that rights holders' content is protected," said Robin Wilson, VP Business Development, Nagravision. "This new specification is a significant step in the process of globalizing FLO technology, especially as it provides optional support for encryption, which enables conditional access at the transport layer."

"The development of the FLO Transport Specification is a testament to the importance of collaboration. The layer provides a foundation for advanced mobile business models and security technology, based on the principals of an open standard framework," commented Carmi Bogot, Vice President Business Development, NDS. "FLO technology is at an advanced stage of open standardization because of the collective efforts of the Forum's members, including NDS."

"The FLO Forum is firmly committed to a global open standardization program whose scope goes well beyond the published FLO air interface standards. Contribution of the FLO Forum-approved FLO Transport Specification to the TIA TR47 engineering committee is a key next step in standardization of the complete FLO protocol stack," added Dr. Kamil A. Grajski, President of the FLO Forum.

The TIA has published four FLO air interface related standards. These include TIA-1099, TIA-1102, TIA-1103 and TIA-1104 - covering FLO Air Interface Specification, Minimum Performance Standards for Devices, Minimum Performance Standards for Transmitters and the FLO Test Application Protocol for Devices and Transmitters, respectively.

About FLO Technology
FLO technology is a new air interface with multicasting capabilities designed to increase capacity and reduce content delivery costs to mobile handsets. FLO technology enables mobile users to see and hear a variety of relevant content for the mobile consumer.
Designed from the ground up specifically to multicast significant volumes of rich multimedia content, FLO enables wireless operators to cost-effectively deliver 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 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, to enable the delivery of advanced multimedia services to wireless consumers. The FLO Forum is organized to promote the global standardization of FLO technology, including compliance and certification benchmarks for the technology. For more information on membership and the FLO Forum, please visit www.floforum.org.

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