ICO’s Mobile Discoveries To Be Tested

ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited (ICO) [NASDAQ: ICOG] has reached an agreement with Discovery Communications, LLC, to provide content for the alpha trials of its mobile interactive media service, known as ICO mim. ICO mim is a fully interactive mobile video, navigation, and emergency assistance service powered by the ICO G1 satellite, which launched on April 14, 2008. The trials will take place in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina and Las Vegas, Nevada starting in late summer 2008. Under the agreement, ICO may select up to three channels for its lineup of live mobile television trials. The channels available for the ICO mim trials include Discovery Channel, TLC and Discovery Kids. ICO previously announced an agreement with NBC Universal to provide content for its alpha trials. The ICO mim product is a converged mobile media service that addresses a wide variety of consumers’ entertainment, information, and two-way communication needs: live and stored mobile TV in vehicles, interactive navigation, and roadside assistance, all with nationwide coverage. ICO mim will provide multiple channels of high-quality mobile video to portable, larger-screen (4.5 to 10 inch) user devices—Reston, Virginia