LCC INTERNATIONAL AWARDED PATENT THAT IMPROVES
For Immediate Release
January 17, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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LCC INTERNATIONAL AWARDED PATENT THAT IMPROVES
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MCLEAN, VIRGINIA , January 17, 2005 – LCC International, Inc., (NASDAQ: LCCI), a global leader in wireless voice and data turn-key technical solutions, announced it has been awarded a US Patent covering certain systems and methods used in LCC’s proprietary analysis tool, “CAPPE”. The CAPPE application is uniquely valuable for carriers seeking to design and deploy networks providing location-based services, 3G, mobile broadband (for example, video streaming and TV), digital audio and video broadcasting services for mobile subscribers. Given the demanding latency and service availability requirements with these types of deployments, the tool provides a more accurate and effective means for carriers to design and optimize mobile wireless networks.
Commenting on the value a tool like CAPPE brings to wireless carriers, Roger Entner, Ovum’s vice president of Wireless Telecoms said, “Wireless carriers are always looking to improve propagation analysis as it relates to radio coverage and fade margins. By analyzing a site’s fade margin, carriers are able to implement cost and quality measures such as lowering the power in a proposed site or lowering the number of sites required in a specific area.”
“ LCC’s R&D team is a rare commodity,” said Dean Douglas, president and CEO of LCC. “CAPPE is just one example of the hidden treasures being uncovered as we work to enhance our current business and extend our reach into adjacent business spaces. We are quite proud of the work this group does and in this instance, the invention of Dr. Nicolae Cotanis, CAPPE’s author.”
Continuing, Mr. Douglas said, “As a consultancy, we have focused on providing consulting services and not necessarily on promoting the innovative tools we have developed to support our projects in emerging technologies. We fully intend to maintain our independence with respect to the use of software applications, however we now plan to leverage our internal tools by creating asset-based service offerings and practice areas geared towards enabling carriers to bring emerging data, video and other 3G applications to market sooner in a more efficient and cost effective manner.”
The CAPPE technology has been used successfully by LCC on projects undertaken for digital audio service providers as well as with carriers seeking to deploy content rich 3G mobile applications. Offering high geolocation accuracy, CAPPE enables engineers to analyze fade margins, spatial and time availability performance over a service radio coverage area. It also provides improved capabilities to estimate multi-path propagation and shadow fading.
About LCC
LCC International, Inc. is a global leader in voice and data design, deployment and management solutions to the wireless telecommunications industry. Since 1983, LCC has performed technical services for the largest wireless operators in North and South America, Europe, The Middle East, Africa and Asia. The Company has worked with all major access technologies and has participated in the success of some of the largest and most sophisticated wireless systems in the world. Through an integrated set of technical business consulting, training, design, deployment, operations and maintenance services, LCC is unique in its ability to provide comprehensive turnkey services to wireless operators around the world. News and additional information are available at www.lcc.com.
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Information in this release regarding LCC’s expectations, beliefs, and intentions are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements include statements about LCC’s expected release of product and service offerings. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to LCC as of the date of this release, which may change, and LCC assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. These statements are not guarantees. Factors that could cause or contribute to differences from such expectations include, but are not limited to, delays in the development, commercialization or market acceptance of new offerings and other factors that may affect our business are discussed in LCC’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
