Real-time Traffic Data Network Coming from Vodafone and TomTom

If you have a driving license and you are on the road, I'm pretty sure that your worst nightmare at that time would be a traffic block. There are some solutions to this problem, the radios that broadcast from time to time traffic conditions on the most important roads of your country, some kind of GPS system that routes you to your destination, but whatever their real efficiency, you find yourself stuck on some road from time to time.

To take care of these annoying moments you go through once in a while (for other this goes on a daily basis), Vodafone and TomTom have teamed up to offer you the solution of the future in this kind of situations: a new type of commercial traffic data system that is going to use the information sent by your mobile phone, and other tens of thousands just like yours, to the base mobile carrier station, and by calculating the speed and the location of the handsets, the TomTom technology is able to make a general picture of the region and thus, it's able to provide the mobile phone user a faster and smarter get-away from the traffic jam.

Most probably, the new technology, which already has been run on some test trials, is going to be released for the Vodafone customers in the second half of 2007 in the Dutch regions of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hague and Utrecht.

The next thing you should do is to go and have a discussion with the guys at the nearest Vodafone store to find out what you have to do to use this amazing new service and if you're not a customer yet and also want to enjoy the TomTom service benefits, go sign a deal with Vodafone.