Airbiquity’s aqNav is a real-time, turn-by-turn audio navigation platform for GPS-enabled mobile handsets. It leverages existing wireless voice networks to create enhanced 411 navigation services using a commercially available Text-to-Speech (TTS) navigation server. These services are available anywhere within the widely-deployed wireless voice coverage area. Because aqNav updates location information once every second, it is the only real-time adaptive handset navigation system that is able to re-route callers within seconds of making a wrong turn. The aqNav platform is founded on Airbiquity’s proven aqLink® technology, which is has already been deployed for mainstream consumer services in over four million vehicles. How It Works Airbiquity pioneered the transmission of digital data over in-band voice modems in wireless networks and holds 11 patents around its core technology. One of these patented technologies is its aqLink in-band modem technology that transports digital data seamlessly over a digitally vocoded and compressed voice channel, without impacting voice quality. Callers access aqNav by calling 411 with a GPS phone that has been enabled with Airbiquity's aqLink technology and uses our Place the Call® method to locate it. The caller first provides the address of the destination verbally to the call taker. Then aqNav tracks the caller's progress in real time, provides real-time directions through audio prompts and is able to adapt and re-route as the GPS handset moves. The system works anywhere voice service is enabled. Value Proposition An average of 18 million directory assistance/directory enquiry (DA/DQ) calls are answered daily in the US, and each year over two billion of those calls come from wireless callers. Most of these calls go to 411. But callers don’t just want to know “where is it?” they also want to know “how do I get there?” And they’re willing to pay for the information. In a survey of more than 4,000 consumers, the C.J. Driscoll & Associates market research firm found that about one-third of U.S. wireless subscribers expressed a strong interest in cellphone-based navigation assistance services. More than 80% said they’d pay either a monthly fee for the service or on a per-transaction basis for driving directions. Airbiquity’s aqNav bridges the gap between the already popular 411 service and consumer demand for driving directions. Any handset that is GPS-enabled is suitable for the service. Providing voice-based navigation to wireless handsets is the key to creating an easy-to-use anywhere solution that can be widely deployed. Airbiquity supports a turnkey solution that includes all the software functionality, integration, installation, testing, lab system, and API necessary for launching aqNav services. This solution allows mobile service providers to quickly add and create new services with support from Airbiquity and its partners.