1933 — T-Mobile Delivers World’s First Nationwide Commercial Rollout of FLASH-OFDM in Slovakia

Oct 18, 2005 | Conteúdos Em Ingles

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

During the official launch event Michael Guenther, Member of the Board, T-Mobile International, and Chairman of the Board, T-Mobile Slovensko, a. s., 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.’

“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.

“I am very proud that we were able to support T-Mobile starting this innovative mobile broadband network. T-Mobile, Siemens and Flarion got this project up and running in record time. Siemens had the task of integrating the FLASH-OFDM network into T-Mobile Slovakia’s existing mobile network. Among other things, our interfaces ensure that the operator can record and bill the customers of the new broadband network with the aid of the databases for its mobile network,” explained Christoph Caselitz, President of Mobile Networks at Siemens Communications .

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.

2005-10-18

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