Sprint Certifies Apple, QuickTime for Mobile Video Services

Sprint (NYSE: S) and Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) today announced that Apple's Xserve G5 and QuickTime software have been certified as mobile multimedia delivery platforms for Sprint's new PCS Vision Multimedia Services.

The technology enables professional content service providers to deliver streaming audio and video clips to Sprint customers. The streams are available to customers using recently announced Sprint Vision Multimedia Services.

"The combination of Xserve G5 and QuickTime's standards-based multimedia architecture gives Sprint's content partners powerful tools to create and deliver professional content," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, said.

Sprint's PCS Vision Multimedia Service offers streaming video and audio content anywhere on the Sprint Nationwide PCS Network from familiar sources such as CNN, NBC Universal, FOX Sports, The Weather Channel, E! Entertainment, mFlix, Twentieth Century Fox, AccuWeather and 1KTV.

In addition, the service allows customers to capture, view and store 15-second video clips by using QuickTime as the exclusive desktop player.

QuickTime is Apple's standards-based software for developing, producing and delivering audio and video over IP, wireless and broadband networks.

QuickTime was chosen by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as the basis for the MPEG-4 file format and is at the core of the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards.

Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in more than 100 countries.