Vodafone to Trial High Speed Data Service

Flarion Technologies and Vodafone KK in Japan have announced that they will conduct a technology trial of Flarion's system for mobile broadband services. The mobile broadband trial will start in mid 2004 and will cover metropolitan areas of Tokyo. Vodafone will conduct field tests of Flarion's system performance, user mobility, subscriber scalability, robustness, and transparent delivery of enterprise and consumer applications over an end-to-end IP network infrastructure. The trial will use Flarion's commercially available FLASH-OFDM PC card modems for laptops and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), to field test broadband Internet access, enterprise productivity applications, as well as gaming.

"Flarion is very excited to be working with one of the world's foremost leaders in mobile services," said Ray Dolan, chairman and CEO of Flarion Technologies. "With Vodafone, Flarion will earn valuable customer and field experiences that may benefit commercial customers in the near future."

With Flarion's IP friendly FLASH-OFDM(r) technology, mobile operators can seamlessly connect corporate LANs with a wireless Wide Area Network with the speed and low packet latency that should exceed stringent corporate network requirements. With FLASH-OFDM, users do not need to make any modifications to user settings, applications, protocols, content or devices to experience mobile broadband with cellular coverage."

Posted to the site on 7th May 2004