By rolling out services in two U.S. markets, Verizon Wireless has triggered momentum for CDMA2000 1X EV-DO technology, barely two years since the first launch of CDMA2000 1X services in the world.The EV-DO launches, which took place in San Diego and Washington, D.C., are...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to offer FOMA video-phone handsets beginning Oct. 1, allowing users to make international video phone calls and 64 kilobit per second data transmissions to the United Kingdom with technology partner Hutchison 3G U.K.The service, which DoCoMo noted builds...
TOKYO-Japanese mobile operator J-Phone Co. Ltd. announced that its board of directors proposed a resolution to change its name to Vodafone K.K., which will completely rebrand the mobile operator under its U.K.-based parent's name. K.K. stands for Kabushiki Kaisha, J-Phone said.The resolution is subject...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced it agreed to sell Japan Telecom Co. to an affiliate of RHJ Industrial Partners, a Ripplewood Holdings L.L.C. fund. Japan Telecom will receive $2.2 billion for the company, $1.9 billion in cash and the remainder in redeemable preferred equity.The cash...
TOKYO-Japanese operator J-Phone Co. said it will change the name of its J-Sky mobile Internet service to Vodafone Live in line with its adoption of the Vodafone brand Oct. 1. Vodafone Live is Vodafone Group plc's mobile Internet service, which is currently available in...
TOKYO-Two Japanese operators announced additions to their multimedia messaging handset portfolios. KDDI said it released the A1304T manufactured by Toshiba Corp. and the A1401K from Kyocera Corp. for its 1x service.Both handsets support MovieMail, which enables users to capture and send video. The two...
TOKYO-Two Japanese operators announced additions to their multimedia messaging handset portfolios. KDDI said it released the A1304T manufactured by Toshiba Corp. and the A1401K from Kyocera Corp. for its 1x service.Both handsets support MovieMail, which enables users to capture and send video. The two...
For those who serenade wideband CDMA as the authentic third-generation protocol, Qualcomm Inc.-inspired cdma2000 is no more than a counterfeit David dueling the shadow of the giant to come. When the giant comes, in all its messianic glories of data and voice, cdma2000 will...
Japan's second-largest wireless operator KDDI Corp. led its bigger and smaller rivals in customer additions last month as the carrier said it added 162,000 net customers in May, ending the month with 18.23 million total customers.KDDI's customer growth included 523,700 net customer additions to...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc reported growing revenues and earnings in its full-year results. Sales were up 14 percent to $55.7 billion, and free cash flow more than doubled to $8.5 billion for the year ended March 31.The news follows last month's announcement by Vodafone competitor...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc reported growing revenues and earnings in its full-year results. Sales were up 14 percent to $55.7 billion, and free cash flow more than doubled to $8.5 billion for the year ended March 31.The news follows last week's announcement by Vodafone competitor...
TOKYO-Japanese operator J-Phone has released what it called the world's first megapixel mobile handset, the J-SH53 from Sharp. The operator said it will initially be offered in a limited quantity of 300 through four J-Phone-owned shops in Tokyo. Sales will then be expanded nationwide.The...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Vodafone Ireland said it opened its third-generation network, although it will initially be available only to several "key business partners." The network provides data speeds of up to 144 kilobits per second, enabling faster downloads and enhanced voice capacity than current services, the...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it has sold more than 10 million camera phones since June 1, 2002, adding that approximately 60 percent of total sales are to users between the ages of 20 and 30. The carrier said it currently offers 11 camera-equipped handsets...
TOKYO-Japan Telecom and East Japan Railway are going to launch a demonstration experiment for high-speed wireless local area network (WLAN) service via mobile phones in mid-May, the firms jointly announced. Participants of the experiment can get access to the Internet once they are given...
TOKYO-Japanese carriers J-Phone and NTT DoCoMo will begin selling camera phones in May with resolution four times that of current camera phones, according to Reuters.The move would put mobile phones with high-resolution embedded cameras in direct competition with low-end digital cameras.
TOKYO and LONDON-Vodafone Group plc and J-Phone Co. Ltd. both announced strong subscriber numbers for their respective multimedia messaging services.Vodafone said it has met its target of 1 million Vodafone Live! customers by end-March. The global operator said 375,000 Live! users are in Germany,...
TOKYO-J-Phone, a Vodafone company in Japan, gained 164,800 new subscribers in February, according to a survey compiled by the Telecommunications Association of Japan.Due to the strides made by J-Phone, the market share of the three Japanese mobile companies as of the end of February...
TOKYO-J-Phone, a Vodafone Group company in Japan, will launch a new location information service 3 March. The new location service, called Loco Guide, will provide local information based on the location identification functionality of mobile handsets.Twenty-three service menus, including restaurant information and transportation information,...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Despite the hype surrounding the success of multimedia messaging service (MMS), the Swedish cell-phone operator Comviq has joined Vodafone and Telia by extending its free trial of the service until June. The company had planned to halt its free trial service at...
BOSTON-Research firm Strategy Analytics said 18 million mobile phones were sold last year with integrated digital cameras, with Nokia Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. taking the lead in the market.The firm said 13 million camera phones were sold in Japan last year, with...
CANNES, France-TSI Telecom Services Inc. said it has launched GSM network transport and conversion services known as SCCP gateway services and has signed up Japanese carrier J-Phone as its first customer.The company, which has set up a new office in Amsterdam, also launched Streamliner,...
TOKYO-J-Phone, a Vodafone Group business unit in Japan, announced it would launch a new prepaid phone service in mid-February. The new prepaid service "enjorno" will charge up to 40-percent lower rates than conventional phone services, and handsets for the service will sell through more...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc confirmed that it is in discussions regarding Japan Telecom, its Japanese subsidiary that offers fixed-line service. Vodafone acquired Japan Telecom in stages to gain control of mobile arm J-Phone last year.Vodafone said the talks "may or may not lead to an...
