The company will begin recruiting 1,000 monitors for this service on March 20.

NTT DoCoMo's wireless LAN trial service will use terminals based on the IEEE802.11b standard allowing use of the 2.4GHz frequency band to realize transmission speeds of up to 11Mbps, and offer "hotspot services" that will enable users to connect to the Internet or to access applications remotely.

NTT DoCoMo said that applications to serve as monitor can be made via its website at NTT DoCoMo (in Japanese) from March 20 to March 31. Monitors will be exempt from transmission charges. The service will be provided at the Imperial Hotel, the Hotel Okura Tokyo, the Tokyo International Forum, Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture and three facilities of NTT DoCoMo.

NTT DoCoMo said that one of the objectives of the experiment is to explore the possibility of integrating its third-generation (3G) mobile-phone service, FOMA, with wireless LAN services. The entrance of NTT DoCoMo, a leading provider of mobile phone services, into the wireless LAN service market may impact the direction of the 3G service as well as hotspot service in Japan and the world.