MBMS

Acquisition Provides NextWave with Valuable Portfolio of Next-Generation Mobile TV and Mobile Broadband Products and Technologies

San Diego, CA, April 9, 2007 - NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE), a global provider of mobile broadband products and technologies to enable Wireless 2.0, the next generation of mobile communications, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire IPWireless Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in San Bruno, California, with research and development facilities in the United Kingdom. IPWireless is widely recognized as the world’s foremost supplier of TD-CDMA network equipment and subscriber terminals. The company has been a leading force in the development of 3GPP TDD UMTS standards which serves as the foundation for its next-generation mobile TV and wireless broadband public-safety network solutions. Its TD-CDMA mobile broadband technology was recently selected by New York City as part of the deployment of a citywide, public-safety wireless network.

Frost & Sullivan presented California-based IPWireless, Inc. with the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation of the Year Award for its development of a pioneering mobile TV/multimedia solution. The solution, TDtv, is based on its time division code division multiple access (TD-CDMA) technology, along with multimedia broadcast and multicast services (MBMS).

This is a truly innovative solution that is set to capitalize on consumers' growing interest in accessing TV on their mobile phones and will allow them to experience high-performance mobile TV at reasonable costs.

Undeniably, delivery technologies, whether network-based or broadcast, are critical to the future of mobile TV. Capacity is already a key issue and will become an even more critical one as consumer demand begins to outstrip wireless network capacity.

Consumer preferences for mobile television will evolve with linear and on-demand programming that is personalized, interactive, location aware and time independent.

EMBC report highlights opportunities and hurdles facing mobile television

15th March 2007 - Brussels: Mobile network operators in Europe called for more spectrum to be made available for the provision of mobile television, echoing one of the findings in the final report of the European Mobile Broadcasting Council (EMBC), an initiative of the European Commission. While the EMBC report highlights the great variety of technical solutions to the provision of mobile broadcast services, such as 3G network-based video streaming, MBMS and DVB-H, DMB and satellite broadcast solutions, it notes that a lack of spectrum could limit the development of some of the new mobile TV platforms available.