FREMONT, Calif.-A new non-profit industry association, The FLO Forum, was announced by its members and headed by Qualcomm Inc. Amoi, BBEF, Harris Corp., Huawei, Korea Telecom, Kyocera, LG Electronics, LG Telecom, MediaFLO USA Inc., Pantech & Curitel, Qualcomm, Roundbox, Sanyo, Sharp Corp. and ZTE are members.
The forum said it will work with consortia, regulatory bodies and designated standards organizations worldwide toward standardization of Forward Link Only technologies, and develop equipment compliance and certification processes for FLO products.
According to the group, FLO technology was designed for a terrestrial mobile multimedia environment and provides robust mobile performance and capacity without compromising power consumption, efficiency, performance or user experience. The technology also reduces the network cost of delivering multimedia content by dramatically decreasing the number of transmitters that need to be deployed, the group said.
