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12-852: Foma may refer to: FOMA (Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access), a Japanese mobile telecommunications service. Flag Officer Commanding Maharashtra Naval Area (FOMA), a senior appointment of the Indian Navy . Foma, a term meaning "harmless untruths" from the fictional religion Bokononism in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle Foma, the narrator of Nikolai Gogol's short story " A Bewitched Place " Foma , Russian male given name of Hebrew origin. Foma (album) , by The Nixons foma (software) , an open-source compiler, programming language, and C library for constructing finite-state automata and transducers compatible with Xerox lexc and twolc Foma Bohemia ,

24-461: A manufacturer of photographic and industrial films, papers and chemicals in the Czech republic Friends of Mount Athos (FoMA), a society that focuses on the monasteries of Mount Athos Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Foma . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

36-414: A worldwide basis, by administrations wishing to implement International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 (IMT-2000). Such use does not preclude the use of these bands by other services to which they are allocated. The bands should be made available for IMT-2000 in accordance with Resolution 212 (Rev. WRC-97)." To accommodate the reality that these initially defined bands were already in use in various regions of

48-832: The World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC-92) held in Málaga-Torremolinos, Spain between 3 February 1992 and 3 March 1992. Resolution 212 (Rev.WRC-97), adopted at the World Radiocommunication Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland in 1997, endorsed the bands specifically for the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) specification by referring to S5.388, which states "The bands 1,885-2,025 MHz and 2,110-2,200 MHz are intended for use, on

60-704: The Americas. In order to improve coverage in rural and mountainous areas, NTT DoCoMo also offers FOMA services in the 800 MHz band originally assigned to the 2G PDC mova service, which corresponds to UMTS band VI and is similar to band V used in the United States. These extended service areas are branded FOMA Plus-Area ( FOMAプラスエリア ) and require multiband terminals. UMTS frequency bands The UMTS frequency bands are radio frequencies used by third generation (3G) wireless Universal Mobile Telecommunications System networks. They were allocated by delegates to

72-620: The FOMA network achieved mass adoption, and handset sales soared. As of September 29, 2007, FOMA had over 40 million subscribers. NTT DoCoMo offers a wide range of FOMA branded handsets, which are made specifically for the Japanese market. FOMA handsets differ from Western UMTS handsets in several aspects, for example: In metropolitan areas, FOMA uses the UMTS band I around 2100 MHz, which has been originally assigned to IMT-2000 services worldwide, except in

84-415: The completion and finalization of the 3G Release 99 network specification, their 3G W-CDMA network was initially incompatible with the internationally deployed UMTS standard. However, in 2004 NTT DoCoMo performed wide-scale upgrades on its network, bringing it into compliance with the specification and enabling 100% compatibility with UMTS handsets, including incoming and outgoing roaming. Around March 2004,

96-462: The first full-scale 3G service in the world - The first FOMA handsets were of an experimental nature, targeting early adopters , were larger than previous handsets, had poor battery life, while the initial network only covered the center of Japan's largest towns and cities. For the first 1–2 years, FOMA was essentially an experimental service for early adopters - mainly centered around communication industry professionals. As NTT DoCoMo did not wait for

108-524: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foma&oldid=1244304215 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages FOMA NTT DoCoMo also offers HSPA services branded FOMA High-Speed ( FOMAハイスピード ), which offers downlink speeds up to 7.2 Mbit/s and uplink speeds up to 5.7 Mbit/s. The W-CDMA air interface

120-539: The service to Freedom of Mobile multimedia Access . In June 2001 trial subscribers complained the mobile phones had insufficient battery life and crashed frequently, that there was inadequate network coverage , and that there were security issues within the handset itself. As a result, DoCoMo recalled 1,500 handsets by the end of June 2001. FOMA successfully launched in October 2001, providing mobile telecommunications coverage to Tokyo and Yokohama . Initially - as

132-473: The world, the initial allocation has been amended multiple times to include other radio frequency bands. From Tables 5.0 "UTRA FDD frequency bands" of the latest published version of the 3GPP TS 25.101, the following table lists the specified frequency bands of UMTS (FDD) : The following table shows the standardized UMTS bands and their regional use. The main UMTS bands are in bold print. UMTS-TDD technology

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144-793: Was accepted by the ITU as one of several air interfaces for the IMT-2000telecom initiative and by the ETSI as one of three air interfaces for the UMTS cellular network standard. NTT DoCoMo originally planned to launch the world's first 3G services, initially branded Frontier of Mobile Multimedia Access ( FOMA ), in May 2001. However, by May 2001, NTT DoCoMo had postponed the full-scale launch until October 2001, claiming they had not completed testing of their entire infrastructure, and would only launch an introductory trial to 4,000 subscribers. In doing so, they also renamed

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