WASHINGTON-The Bush administration asked Japan to promote competitive wireless policies and to improve spectrum management, but some reforms pushed by trade officials here are not necessarily legally embraced in the United States. The office of U.S. trade representative weighed in on wireless issues in...
TOKYO-Japan hopes to stoke competition in its hard-to-penetrate mobile-phone market by allowing three new entrants to offer wireless services. The country's telecommunications ministry opened the door for Softbank Corp., eAccess Ltd. and IPMobile Inc. to introduce new handsets and services. The new players will...
TOKYO-Japan hopes to stoke competition in its hard-to-penetrate mobile-phone market by allowing three new entrants to offer wireless services. The country's telecommunications ministry opened the door for Softbank Corp., eAccess Ltd. and IPMobile Inc. to introduce new wireless handsets and services. The new players...
SAN DIEGO-Two Asian carriers announced plans to launch CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev A networks by the end of next year-LG Telecom, a small Korean carrier, and KDDI Corp., Japan's second-largest carrier and the country's sole CDMA operator. Sprint Nextel Corp., Verizon Wireless and U.S....
SAN DIEGO-Two Asian carriers announced plans to launch CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev A networks by the end of next year-LG Telecom, a small Korean carrier, and KDDI Corp., Japan's second-largest carrier and the country's sole CDMA operator.Sprint Nextel Corp., Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular...
TOKYO-Japanese credit card companies and carriers are working together to allow consumers to use their phones as payment devices.Operators KDDI and Vodafone Group's Japan unit have teamed with JCB and other financial companies to promote a standard and build an infrastructure to support QuicPay,...
SAN FRANCISCO-Mobile entertainment took center stage for CTIA's Wireless I.T. & Entertainment Day 2 keynote as music, data and gaming executives took their turns extolling the promise of wireless data that so far has seen mixed results. Warner Music Group Chairman and Chief Executive...
Verizon Wireless announced it will support phones that include MP3 players. The news comes a day ahead of the likely unveiling of Motorola Inc.'s iTunes-capable phone. Verizon said three of its newly released Vcast phones will include digital music players. UTStarcom Inc.'s CDM-8940 and...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-KDDI Corp. in Japan used over-the-air updating technology to fix a software glitch in several thousand subscriber phones. KDDI uses OTA technology from InnoPath Software Inc. "By delivering fast, efficient and reliable software updates without asking our customers to come to a...
Verizon Wireless successfully conducted over-the-air calls using CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A technology from Lucent Technologies Inc., and Lucent said its Rev. A infrastructure will be commercially available in 2006. The trials are the first live tests of Rev. A technology-an enhancement to EV-DO...
BETHESDA, Md.-Iridium Satellite L.L.C. said in its first-half report that its subscriber base has increased 20 percent to 127,000 customers during the past 12 months and 11 percent from 114,000 subscribers the company reported at the end of last year. Revenue for the first...
The coming surge of mobile virtual network operators will target virtually every demographic, from ethnic groups to sports fans to rural users. But no group of consumers is being courted as much as America's youth. As wireless enters the multimedia era, the market of...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Japanese carrier KDDI Corp. has deployed InnoPath Software's over-the-air technology on two new handsets, the companies said Thursday. The new phones feature InnoPath's DeltaUpgrade Plus, which allows carriers to fix glitches and update firmware through the network. InnoPath, which has also deployed...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Japanese carrier KDDI Corp. has deployed InnoPath Software's over-the-air technology on two new handsets, the companies said Thursday.The new phones feature InnoPath's DeltaUpgrade Plus, which allows carriers to fix glitches and update firmware through the network. InnoPath, which has also deployed its...
WASHINGTON-The Japanese Embassy today confirmed the government plans to add three competitors to the mobile-phone market, a move that comes after months of prodding by the U.S. trade representative and an aborted lawsuit against the telecom ministry by hard-charging wireless newcomer Softbank Corp. The...
WASHINGTON-Softbank Corp. said the Japanese government authorized it to operate an experimental third-generation mobile-phone base station in the 1.7 GHz band using W-CDMA technology. Softbank, a major broadband player in Japan, has been aggressively trying to crack Japan's 3G wireless market in recent years....
TOKYO-Vodafone K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Vodafone Group plc, lost nearly 40,000 subscribers during April, according to data released by Japan's Telecommunications Carriers Association. The loss is the carrier's fourth straight month of subscriber losses.Rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc. gained 250,000 subscribers during the month,...
TOKYO-Japan's mobile-phone carriers said interim findings from research they sponsored found radio-frequency radiation from base stations does not affect human cells, according to an NTT DoCoMo Inc. press release. The research, funded by DoCoMo, KDDI Corp., Vodafone K.K. and Tu-Ka Cellular Tokyo Inc., was...
Japan's mobile-phone carriers said interim findings from research they sponsored found radio-frequency radiation from base stations does not affect human cells, according to an NTT DoCoMo Inc. press release. The research, funded by DoCoMo, KDDI Corp., Vodafone K.K. and Tu-Ka Cellular Tokyo Inc., was...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) said he will block President Bush's nomination of Rep. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) as the next U.S. trade representative, a move that comes as the administration ratchets up pressure on several countries to lower fees charged by foreign wireless operators to...
NEW ORLEANS-Several infrastructure suppliers announced third-generation contract wins. L.M. Ericsson said Swedish 3G operator Svenska UMTS-Nät AB, the joint venture between Tele2 and TeliaSonera, awarded it a new three-year frame agreement for the delivery of a core and radio access network. Under the agreement,...
NEW ORLEANS-Several infrastructure suppliers announced third-generation contract wins. L.M. Ericsson said Swedish 3G operator Svenska UMTS-Nät AB, the joint venture between Tele2 and TeliaSonera, awarded it a new three-year frame agreement for the delivery of a core and radio access network. Under the agreement,...
The news that Microsoft Corp. will join Nokia Corp. to deliver a mobile-music platform may have been among the more startling developments at last week's 3GSM World Congress, but it was only the first of a half-dozen mobile music announcements both out of France...
TOKYO-MTV Japan and Yamaha said they made available Japan's first music recognition service, MTV Music Finder, to KDDI Corp. subscribers across Japan.In partnership with Shazam Entertainment, a U.K.-based audio recognition company, MTV Japan will work with its local licensee, SystemK Corp., to deliver Shazam's...
