Swisscom Mobile Launches Option's Edge/WLAN Data Card

BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- Option N.V. (OPTI.BT), the belgian wireless technology company, Tuesday announced that Swisscom Mobile AG (SCM) has selected Option's GlobeTrotter COMBO EDGE as its EDGE data solution for the Swiss market.

The data card is marketed under Swisscom Mobile's brand 'Unlimited PC Card EDGE/GPRS/WLAN'. The GlobeTrotter COMBO EDGE is the second data card from the Option portfolio of wireless data cards to be selected by Swisscom, and follows the success of the GlobeTrotter FUSION data card launched on the Swiss market last year.

Swisscom Mobile has a customer base of 4.0 million mobile users, recently announced the launch of EDGE and as such introduced Switzerland's first broadband mobile network with nationwide coverage.

EDGE complements Swisscom Mobile's existing technology mix, which includes UMTS and WLAN, and increases the average mobile bandwidth from 30 to as much as 200 kbps. After having announced EDGE mobile phones, the company now introduces its first EDGE/WLAN PC data card for mobile professionals.

Swisscom Mobile's UMTS network currently supplies some 90% of the Swiss population and is complemented by more than 800 WLAN hotspots enabling very high bandwidths in some locations. Through the data cards, the mobile bandwidth available to NATEL customers has been increased from 30 to 100-200 kbps - many times faster than that of ISDN which is available more or less all over Switzerland.

Company website: http://www.option.com

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Posted to the site on 5th July 2005