DENVER-Mobile phones are used for talking, texting, gaming, photographing and documenting. They link to the public Internet and private, corporate Intranets. They store important names, numbers and calendars. In the not-so-distant future, wireless devices may be used for identification purposes and as payment devices,...
TOKYO-KDDI Corp. plans to launch its third-generation CDMA2000 1xEV-DO network Nov. 28, offering a flat-rate fee of $38 a month. The launch will mark one of the first EV-DO mobile network launches in the world, followed by operators in South Korea and the United...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Japanese wireless giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to develop software for mobile phone to protect from wireless viruses, including multimedia-style bugs that travel through e-mail.DoCoMo is working with virus protection company Network Associates Inc. to develop a compact anti-virus engine....
LONDON-T-Mobile in Europe announced an innovative new service that further expands the bounds of wireless data services and pushes the carrier one step closer to full over-the-air control over wireless phones. Under the offering, T-Mobile users will be able to download new user interfaces...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it signed an agreement to sell its ownership stake in Taiwanese mobile carrier Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. to the carrier's majority shareholder, Far Eastern Group, for $330 million in cash.Earlier this month, Far EasTone and KG Telecommunications, another...
NTT DoCoMo Inc. joins several other major wireless players in introducing an over-the-air updating service that will allow the carrier to remotely send software patches or even new applications to mobile-phone subscribers.DoCoMo said its mova and FOMA handsets will be able to access the...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it signed an agreement to sell its ownership stake in Taiwanese mobile carrier Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. to the carrier's majority shareholder, Far Eastern Group, for $330 million in cash.Earlier this week, Far EasTone and KG Telecommunications, another Taiwanese...
TOKYO-Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. looks to have stepped in to revive a merger between two Taiwanese mobile operators that was speculated to have fallen through. DoCoMo said it had agreed to a deal in which KG Telecommunications Co. will become a 100-percent controlled...
TOKYO-Japanese operator KDDI Corp. raised its profit estimate for the year by 34 percent due to strong sales of its CDMA2000 1X service. The carrier now expects a full-year profit of $864 million compared with its previous forecast of $646 million. The operator has...
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. finally hit the 1 million mark for the number of users of its FOMA third-generation W-CDMA service, two years after launching the service and much later than original estimates. After sluggish uptake for its 3G services, DoCoMo improved handset quality by...
LONDON-Operating system consortium Symbian signed a development agreement with Japan's leading mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc. The agreement gives NTT DoCoMo access to Symbian OS source code and the right to deliver extended versions of this code to phone manufacturers that license the Symbian...
Operating system consortium Symbian signed a development agreement with Japan's leading mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc. The agreement gives NTT DoCoMo access to Symbian OS source code and the right to deliver extended versions of this code to phone manufacturers that license the Symbian...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Despite the dominance of the GSM family of network technologies over the CDMA family of technologies in the wireless market, next-generation CDMA, CDMA2000 1X EV-DO, is gaining traction more rapidly than next-generation GSM, W-CDMA, according to research from Allied Business Intelligence.Most European...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced the development of micro base stations for its third-generation FOMA network that are up to 1/30th the size of conventional base stations. The operator said the new base stations will allow it to expand FOMA service more economically and with...
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...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Despite the dominance of the GSM family of network technologies over the CDMA family of technologies in the wireless market, next-generation CDMA, CDMA2000 1X EV-DO, is gaining traction more rapidly than next-generation GSM, W-CDMA, according to research from Allied Business Intelligence.Most European...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will begin marketing a data-card type terminal capable of high-speed packet transmission at 384 kilobits per second. The F2402 makes possible video calling from a PC to a FOMA video phone or an ISDN-connected fixed video phone.In addition, specific...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. said it has introduced a new SGSN and GGSN product platform to enhance large-volume Internet Protocol packet transmission applications, such as video streaming and global positioning system services.The vendor said it will soon deliver the new product to Japanese mobile carrier NTT...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Micro fuel cells face a number of hurdles before wide-scale use and acceptance is possible, according to research from ABI. The firm emphasized that regulatory approvals must be granted for final product designs and a distribution network must be established for those...
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...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said that its FOMA network would cover 99 percent of the population in the Kanto-Koshinetsu region of Japan, which includes Tokyo, beginning Sept. 6, and its network would cover 96 percent of the Japanese population by the end of September.With the...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will begin rolling over customers' unused monthly dialing and communications allowances for up to two months beginning in November.The Japanese telecommunications giant said the "two-month carryover" plan applies to all mova and FOMA subscribers and will be automatically instituted...
BEIJING-In a post-SARS world, China seems to be coming back to its own as businesses try to rekindle the old gusto of investment in this market.Nortel Networks Ltd., Datang Mobile and NTT DoCoMo are tops on the current list.Nortel and Datang have jointly opened...
