QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, and Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that QUALCOMM has licensed Microsoft® Windows Media® technology and will integrate the Windows Media Audio and Video codecs into QUALCOMM's Qtv (TM) video decoder solution. Consumers will be able to play back and stream Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) content on wireless devices integrated with QUALCOMM's Qtv solution. Support for this capability in the Qtv solution will be available in the first quarter of calendar 2005, beginning with QUALCOMM's MSM6250 (TM) , MSM6500 (TM) and MSM6550 (TM) Mobile Station Modem (TM) (MSM (TM) ) wideband CDMA (WCDMA) and CDMA2000 1x EV-DO chipset solutions.

"By enabling our Qtv solution to play content encoded with the high-quality compression efficiencies of Microsoft's Windows Media, we are providing operators with access to new revenue opportunities through the deployment of rich multimedia services and our manufacturing partners with fully tested, fully integrated, differentiated solutions," said Luis Pineda, vice president of marketing and product management for QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "QUALCOMM is fully committed to providing the industry with multimedia capabilities based on industry leading technologies such as Windows Media, and this agreement helps further that goal."