Internet while on the road! Sounds like a dream come true for everyone but the State Patrol officers dealing with the potential of people surfing while they drive. NetGear is having a new modem tested out that will allow mobile passengers (notice I say passengers) to surf the Internet via a new long-range wireless data service called Flash-OFDM.

The data services is a project of Nextel Communications Inc., T-Mobile International and Vodafone PLC. If the plan comes together, this new modem and the new data service could really change things for many of us as we drive down the road of life.

NetGear Inc. is designing a broadband modem for use with a long-range wireless data service called Flash-OFDM that is currently being trialed by Nextel Communications Inc., T-Mobile International and Vodafone PLC.

The hardware would interconnect Flash-OFDM, which was developed by startup Flarion Technologies Inc., with personal computers and networks using Ethernet or Wi-Fi technology.