London, 31st January 2005 – Nextreaming Corporation, a leader in mobile multimedia solutions for mobile operators, handset manufacturers and content providers, announced today that its technology has enabled 3 UK and Vodafone UK mobile users to view high quality video content. The agreement, arranged through TWI’s interactive division (TWIi), the digital and media arm of the largest independent production company in the UK, enables the operators to produce and deliver high quality encoded football video content for customers over their respective networks.

“3 and Vodafone’s decision to use Nextreaming solutions to encode football video content for their mobile customers through TWIi is the ultimate endorsement of our technology and this is just the first in a series of mobile multimedia solutions that Nextreaming will bring to UK mobile users” said Dr. IL-TAEK LIM, President and CEO of Nextreaming.

TWIi, part of sports marketing giant IMG, has integrated Nextreaming’s solution into its Interactive Content Factory (ICF™) software product which TWIi uses to perform all content ingest, production, transcoding and delivery for Vodafone and 3. “The video market is now expanding rapidly on GPRS and 3G mobiles” said Max Haot, ICF General Manager, TWIi. “Integrating Nextreaming’s video encoding into ICF has enabled us to provide the highest quality video to our clients 3 and Vodafone, the Nextreaming integration is also available to any other ICF client.”

Nextreaming encoders are already used globally by 3 and the company has deployed its video services across many major carriers worldwide on every major mobile platform including CDMA, GPRS, EDGE, and 3GSM (W-CDMA). Nextreaming encoders offer high quality, user friendly, advanced pre-processing capabilities and video coding solutions with flexible input formats. The encoders also maintain high levels of standards compatibility. Nextreaming’s solutions are recognised as providing quality mobile video encoding technology, and also provide carrier grade streaming and management capabilities to mobile operators.

About Nextreaming Corporation

Nextreaming Corporation is a leading provider of carrier grade mobile multimedia solutions. Nextreaming’s products provide optimized encoding, delivery, and decoding over wireless networks. Nextreaming's products include Nexencoder™ Enterprise, Xenon™, Nexcaster 2™, Nextreamer™, Nexembedded™ Suite, and Nextreaming ActiveX Player. Nextreaming actively participates in IMTC, MPEG, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and ISMA. Nextreaming provides an end-to-end mobile suite of products and services to enable operators to deploy the highest quality streaming capabilities worldwide. These services permit operators to enjoy increased revenues with any video enabled handset. Additional features include Nexaware™ and H.264 to provide optimized adaptive streaming based on any available bit rate or network.

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