MEDIA-I: Cathay links up with DoCoMo for 3G service set up

TOKYO: Cathay Pacific Airways has launched the mobile version of

its internet site on a 3G mobile phone network. The Japanese network -

Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access - was set up last month by Japanese

telecommunications company NTT DoCoMo.

The network reportedly provides data connections about 40 times faster

than conventional mobile communications. The system allows mobile users

to access voice and data communications.

The service is presently limited to the area within a 30km radius in

Tokyo, however, it will be expanded to include Osaka and Nagoya.

Cathay's manager of commercial websites, Dominic Purvis, said: "The

ultra high speed will also enable us to explore some new concepts that

were never possible before."