[Internet service, Freedom, uses a 2.4GHz frequency not licensed anywhere in Europe to achieve 11Mbps data rates. Sagem is to make the handsets, according to this report.]

by Chris Ayres -- "A FINNISH professor has discovered a technical loophole that could eradicate the need for mobile phone licences worth nearly 60 billion.

"Hannu Kari, a professor at Helsinki University of Technology, has developed software that could allow companies without so-called "3G" licences to launch mobile Internet services in big cities.

"The software, which has been provisionally named Dynamics HUT Mobile IP, has been adopted by one of Finland's biggest Internet service providers, Jippii Group.

"The company claims the software is capable of allowing mobile phone users to access the Internet at 11Mbps (megabits per second) -- several hundred times the speed of conventional modems.

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