ICO Selects Alcatel-Lucent, Hughes for Alpha Trial | Telematics Journal

ICO Selects Alcatel-Lucent, Hughes for Alpha Trial | Telematics Journal: "ICO Selects Alcatel-Lucent, Hughes for Alpha Trial

May 2, 2007

Alcatel-Lucent and Hughes Network Systems will develop key architecture and technology for use in ICO Global Communications’ alpha trial of Mobile Interactive Media (MIM) services, set for spring of 2008.

ICO MIM is a converged mobile media service which addresses a wide variety of consumers’ entertainment and communication needs, all based upon ICO’s next-generation geostationary satellite (ICO G1) and the deployment of an Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC).

“ICO MIM lies at the intersection of three highly prized consumer services: interactive location-based services, using GPS with GMR for navigation plus live traffic, weather and social networks; emergency calling and messaging, for times and places when the traditional terrestrial networks are unavailable; and mobile video, on larger screens and with better quality than currently available,” says Tim Bryan, ICO’s CEO. “We plan an alpha trial on ICO MIM for the spring of 2008, including the deployment of a terrestrial network in two cities, to demonstrate the attractiveness of ICO’s assets being deployed for these services.”

ICO MIM will provide multiple channels of high-quality mobile video to large-screen user devices."