Six months ago Nextel became the first U.S. company to launch a broadband wireless service trial based on Flarion's Fast Low-latency Access with Seamless Handoff-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing technology. Since then, the carrier has expanded the geographic reach of its Nextel Broadband service and attracted paying customers. Flarion's Fast FLASH-OFDM is one of a handful of wireless broadband technologies being touted today (see graphic). While Nextel is testing the waters with this proprietary technology that promises high speeds and low latency even when an end user is on a train or in a car, competitors Sprint and Verizon Wireless are focusing on Evolution-Data Optimization (EV-DO) services.
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