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

<p>TOKYO: Cathay Pacific Airways has launched the mobile version of </p><p>its internet site on a 3G mobile phone network. The Japanese network - </p><p>Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access - was set up last month by Japanese </p><p>telecommunications company NTT DoCoMo. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>The network reportedly provides data connections about 40 times faster </p><p>than conventional mobile communications. The system allows mobile users </p><p>to access voice and data communications. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>The service is presently limited to the area within a 30km radius in </p><p>Tokyo, however, it will be expanded to include Osaka and Nagoya. </p><p>Cathay's manager of commercial websites, Dominic Purvis, said: "The </p><p>ultra high speed will also enable us to explore some new concepts that </p><p>were never possible before." </p><p><BR><BR> </p>