By Lenie Lectura| ABS CBN News | December 27, 2010
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines and Japanese governments are working on signing a memorandum of cooperation following the decision to tap the latter’s Integrated Services Digital Broadcast technology as the country’s standard for Digital Terrestrial...
Taipei Times | December 28, 2010
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) shares gained in early Taipei trading after a Nikkei Shimbun report that the world’s largest contract manufacturing service firm for electronics and communication products plans to acquire control of a LCD venture between...
Calgary Herald | December 27, 2010
MONTEVIDEO - Uruguay will adopt a Japanese and Brazilian digital TV standard known as ISDB-T, instead of European rival DVB-T, Foreign Minister Luis Almagro announced Monday.
Uruguay will joins most of Latin America in signing on to the ISDB-T format,...
TelecomPaper | Tuesday 28 December 2010 | 01:20 CET
The Japanese communications ministry will require mobile service providers to disclose how they calculate fees charged for network access. With the move, the ministry aims to lower mobile rates for consumers, the Nikkei writes. Three firms...
Eelectronista | December 27, 2010
Japanese wireless provider NTT DoCoMo has now launched its LTE service at home. Announced over a year ago, it went online December 24, and is the country's first 4G network. Called Xi, it will initially cover Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka,...
Eelectronista | December 27, 2010
Japanese wireless provider NTT DoCoMo has now launched its LTE service at home. Announced over a year ago, it went online December 24, and is the country's first 4G network. Called Xi, it will initially cover Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka,...
TOKYO | December 20, 2010 | PRNewswire
SPB Software, a leading mobile software developer, was chosen by Fujitsu to improve the user interface and expand the functionality for their new Android Fujitsu REGZA Phone T-01C device. The new smartphone was designed to combine fun and...
In an attempt to shed some flab, Finnish phone maker Nokia is selling off its wireless modem business unit to Japan’s Renesas Electronic for $200 million.
The Japanese handset industry remains an enigma shrouded in mystery for most of the world outside of Japan, but at this year’s CommunicAsia in Singapore, RCR Unplugged managed to spend some time at the Japanese firm’s booth, pulling its handsets apart – literally.
Japanese electronics maker, Sharp, would like us to know it has pulled off “an industry first” in coming up with a high-definition 3D camera for smartphones, due out as early as July in sample form, with mass production to get under way by the end of this year.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-Retel d.o.o. and Arbital Communications Sdn. Bhd. said they will deploy a mobile broadband service in Zagreb, Croatia, using Flarion Technologies Inc.'s Flash-OFDM technology. Flarion's Flash-OFDM technology will provide Croatian enterprise and residential customers with wireless broadband access."We are also proud to...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Flarion Technologies Inc. reported a trial deployment of its Flash-OFDM technology by Japan Telecom Co. Ltd. and Tohoku University’s Research Center in Sendai, Japan, that will include seamless roaming and handoff between Flarion’s wide-area technology and fixed Wi-Fi access points.The mobile broadband trial...
Nortel Networks Ltd and UTStarcom are on two sides of a stormy boat: Both multinational vendors face accounting travails and both are still gaining contracts, and both are convinced they are heading for smoother waters. Nortel's accounting problems have been contradicted by a long...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced that current chief executive of Vodafone U.K., Gavin Darby, has been appointed chief executive Americas Region effective April 1, where he will report to group Chief Operating Officer Julian Horn-Smith.Bill Morrow, who was chief executive of the Japan Telecom fixed...
TOKYO-Two former Sprint Corp. executives have been named to the board of Japan Telecom Co. William Esrey, former Sprint chief executive officer, has been named chairman of the board, and Ronald LeMay, former Sprint chief operating officer, has been named a director on the...
TOKYO-Two former Sprint Corp. executives have been named to the board of Japan Telecom Co. William Esrey, former Sprint chief executive officer, has been named chairman of the board, and Ronald LeMay, former Sprint chief operating officer, has been named a director on the...
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-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...
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...
TOKYO-Japan Telecom, a Vodafone company in Japan, announced it sold a base station business unit to Bovis Lend Lease, an Australian company. It is the first time that an overseas construction company has bought a Japanese construction company.As part of its restructuring plan, Japan...
TOKYO—Yozan, a Tokyo-based software developer, on 2 April announced that the firm is going to launch Internet Protocol (IP)-based wireless service in the fourth quarter of 2002 by fully using both PHS networks that Yozan acquired from Tokyo Telecommunication Network earlier this week and...
TOKYO—A governmental advisory body for the telecommunications ministry on 16 January decided to revise the telecom regulation to let operators use the OFDM system for their wireless local area network (WLAN) services.Using the OFDM system, operators will be able to provide high-speed data transmission...
LONDON—Vodafone Group announced changes to its regional structure effective 1 January. The changes include placing the wireless operator's interests in Japan, China and India under its Asia region, headquartered in Tokyo. Bill Keever, currently chief executive officer (CEO) of the Americas region, will be...
TOKYO—J-Phone Group on 1 November consolidated four companies of the group into one company to compete with its two rivals NTT DoCoMo and KDDI.Due to the reorganization, the new J-Phone was born from J-Phone Communications, J-Phone East, J-Phone West and J-Phone Central. Japan Telecom...
