Digital Fountain's DF Raptor technology, which optimizes digital media delivery over any network, will power a unique digital music download (DMD) service from UBC Media. The service will be available later this year to Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)-enabled mobile phone customers in the United Kingdom through select mobile providers.

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UBC's technology division, Unique Interactive, developed the DMD technology to allow listeners to purchase tracks instantly as they are broadcast by digital radio stations and to download them to mobile devices, such as digital radio-enabled mobile phones. Digital Fountain's DF Raptor software ensures that the music files are quickly and successfully delivered, so that the entire song is downloaded to the phone in real time while the user is listening to it.

Digital Fountain's DF Raptor software is an erasure correction code that mathematically recovers missing or lost data without requiring retransmission from the sender. The software increases file transmission efficiency even in extreme network conditions. The technology is deployed by major mobile carriers across the globe, and is also used for IPTV and national security and defense applications.