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World’s First Nationwide Commercial Rollout of FLASH-OFDM
18th October , 2005

Europe : T- Mobile brings new and faster mobile broadband Internet access in Slovakia

T-Mobile today launched in Slovakia Europe’s first commercial mobile broadband service using Flarion Technologies’ FLASH-OFDM network technology. As of today, the service is available in selected areas of Bratislava, and in 19 other cities around Slovakia.

Hamid Akhavan, Chief Technology Officer of T-Mobile International stated: "Mobile broadband access is an extremely important asset in today’s world of communication. It will soon become a vital part of countries’ infrastructure. I am very pleased to see our company in Slovakia be the world’s pioneer for this exciting new technology that has the power to deliver broadband internet to offices and homes even in areas that lack other telecommunications infrastructure."

Customers of T-Mobile Slovakia’s service will experience mobile data speeds of one megabit per second (Mbps) average in the downlink and 256 kilobits per second (Kbps) average in the uplink, making it suitable for both business and residential customers.

"By launching our Fast Internet service using FLASH-OFDM technology, we are making a giant leap in increasing the lagging broadband internet penetration in Slovakia," stated Robert Chvatal, CEO, T-Mobile Slovakia. "We want to provide a broadband internet choice also outside of big cities and increase the choice beyond DSL and cable," he added.

As part of this deployment, Siemens and Flarion are delivering to T-Mobile a complete FLASH-OFDM solution for the 450 MHz frequency spectrum: RadioRouter base stations, desktop modems and PC cards. Furthermore Siemens had the task of integrating the FLASH-OFDM network into T-Mobile Slovakia’s existing mobile network.

With Flarion’s FLASH-OFDM technology, mobile operators can seamlessly connect enterprise customers to corporate LANs and consumers to the internet with the speed and low packet latency that exceed stringent wired network requirements, with mobile broadband and cellular coverage. Using a FLASH-OFDM data card, users do not need to make any modifications to their user settings to experience broadband connectivity in a mobile environment. The spatial extension of the FLASH-OFDM cells in the 450 MHz frequency band makes this technology ideal, for example, for providing coverage in rural areas.
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