SAN DIEGO, (BUSINESS WIRE) — NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE), a global provider of mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies, and Huawei Technologies (”Huawei”), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions, announced a strategic partnership agreement to jointly develop and market advanced WiMAX broadcast solutions for mobile operators worldwide. The collaboration will bring WiMAX solutions to market more rapidly and cost-effectively in order to address the needs of the growing market for mobile TV and broadcast services.

Under the Agreement, Huawei will integrate NextWave’s MXtv Macro-Diversity Multicast and Broadcast technology into its industry-leading fourth-generation base station platform and ASN-GW network platforms, which fully conform to the 802.16e (WiMAX) air interface standard. For more information, please see today’s announcement “NextWave Wireless Announces MXtv, A Breakthrough Mobile TV and Advertising Platform for WiMAX Operators.” In addition, NextWave has integrated the technology into its low-power, Wave 2 compliant NW2000 WiMAX subscriber System-on-a-Chip (SoC). Early reference design development samples of the NW2000 are expected to be available in Q2 2008 with commercial sample availability expected in Q3 2008. The partnership between the two companies drives the development of higher performance and more cost-effective WiMAX-based mobile broadcast solutions.

The two companies have already completed initial design and implementation, and are currently undergoing integration and interoperability testing at NextWave’s Del Mar, California, lab facilities. Huawei’s and NextWave’s solutions are expected to be commercially available at the end of the second quarter in 2008.

“We look forward to working closely with NextWave Wireless on current and future WiMAX initiatives,” said Charlie Chen, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Management. Huawei Technologies (USA). “Thanks to Huawei’s strong research and development capability, we have been developing innovative and scalable WiMAX solutions for customers worldwide.”