TORONTO—Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has acquired Plazmic, a closely held Toronto company that makes software for wireless devices. Financial terms were not disclosed.Founded in 1996, Plazmic develops graphic programs for handhelds using the Java programming language, which has been adopted...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will launch a nationwide position-information service based on its Location Platform, dubbed the DLP service, on Nov. 27.The service uses information from global positioning satellites to identify, register and communicate geographic position, allowing customers to confirm their current locations,...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo announced it will launch motion picture distribution services for its third-generation (3G) service called FOMA on 19 November. A new handset, which will be equipped with the function for the new service called i-motion, will be launched on the same day. Initially,...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—While Europe's major cell-phone operators remain cautious about their launch plans for third-generation (3G) services, Hutchison Whampoa, which owns 3G licenses in the United Kingdom and Italy, has confirmed deployment plans for September 2002. According to Canning Fok, group managing director of...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says Finnish transport and communications minister Olli-Pekka Heinonen has placed "the first inter-continental UMTS phone call' to Finland."This was the first of its kind between two operators' 3G networks, the NTT DoCoMo network in Japan and the Sonera network in Finland,"...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported it will launch a video-clip distribution service over its FOMA third-generation network November 19.The carrier said the I-motion service will allow users to obtain video content from sites accessed via its official I-mode portal with I-motion compatible handsets, which DoCoMo...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Nokia Corp. launched a joint action plan to accelerate the development of the open mobile architecture initiative announced by wireless companies earlier this week. The two companies will cooperate in promoting open mobile architecture for W-CDMA-based third-generation services in areas...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported a 50 percent drop in first half net profits, which the carrier attributed to a $2.1 billion write down on its investment in Dutch mobile operator KPN Mobile. The shortfall resulted in a net loss of $230 million for the...
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...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in Japan, is going to report about a 300 billion yen (US$2.5 billion) special loss in its first half (1H) of fiscal year (FY) 2001 from April to September due to the re-evaluation of its stake in KPN...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, on 1 October launched the world's first third-generation (3G) mobile service in the Tokyo metropolitan area, receiving mixed reviews from market analysts. The visual phone, one of three 3G terminals, with a small camera and a...
BEIJING—Around 400 operators and manufacturers from 19 countries and regions this week took part in the 2001 PT Wireless & Networks Comm China Exhibition in Beijing. The major topic was third-generation (3G) mobile communication technology. Japan's NTT DoCoMo showed its i-mode handset, while...
TOKYO—Talks between Korea's SK Telecom and Japan's NTT DoCoMo have stalled without signs of moving forward, according to international press reports. The talks have been ongoing for more than a y ear and would involve DoCoMo taking a stake in SK Telecom of about...
NEW YORK—In its fourth debt deal of the year, NTT DoCoMo plans to pay off maturing short-term debt with a new issue of US$825 million in 10-year, yen-denominated bonds paying 1.49 percent interest.Including this new deal, Japan's largest telecommunications carrier has raised US$4 billion...
NEW YORK—In its fourth debt deal of the year NTT DoCoMo Inc., Tokyo, plans to pay off maturing short-term debt with a new issue of $825 million in of 10-year, yen-denominated bonds paying 1.49 percent interest.Including this new deal, Japan's largest telecommunications carrier has...
LONDON—Hutchison 3G UK, which purchased a license to offer third-generation (3G) services in the United Kingdom last year, signed an agreement with U.K.-based electric and telecom company National Grid to locate Hutchison's radio antennas on National Grid's existing towers.The value of the contract was...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, achieved rapid business expansion by gaining a 59.6-percent market share of new customers in September. J-Phone, now owned by the world's largest mobile carrier Vodafone Group, had expanded its share significantly in July and August, while...
TOKYO—Japan's KDDI Corp. said it was postponing the launch of its high-speed mobile Internet access service from this fall to next April.KDDI said the cdma2000 1x-based service planned by its au wireless subsidiary was not being delayed by standards glitches, but by software issues."There...
TOKYO—J-Phone Group, a mobile business unit of Japan Telecom on 1 October will start providing a variety of services using Disney characters for its J-Sky service users, J-Phone announced on 10 September. J-Sky is an Internet access services provided by J-Phone.According to J-Phone,...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo plans to triple the data transmission speed (for downlinks) of i-mode service from current 9.6 kbps to 28.8 kbps in the spring of 2002, NTT DoCoMo announced on 11 September. At the same time, it will increase the memory capacity for iAppli...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, will launch cellular phone bill settlement service via i-mode on 22 October, NTT DoCoMo announced on 13 September. Using the service, NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service subscribers will be able to settle their cellular phone bill on...
SAO PAULO, Brazil—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to partner with Telefonica S.A. work on third-generation telephony projects, according to Brazil newspapers.The papers cited NTT DoCoMo Brazil's technical director Eikichi Suzuki as saying DoCoMo also wants to keep its seven-percent stake in Telefonica Celular,...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo announced it plans to increase the speed of its i-mode and DoPa mobile Internet services by almost 20 Kbps and hopes to launch the enhanced service in spring of 2002.The services will be upgraded from the current 9.6 Kbps speed to 28.8...
Berliner Communications Inc.Doreen Trant has been promoted to chief operating officer of Berliner Communication Inc. Trant previously served as the company's vice president of sales and marketing. She will now be responsible for service disciplines including RF engineering, site acquisition, construction, project management,...
