Japan&#39;s NEC to enter China 3G cell phone infrastructure market ...
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TOKYO (AFX) - NEC Corp will launch infrastructure-related operations for China&#39;s 3G (third-generation) cellular phone market, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported, without citing sources.
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The world's top cell phone maker Nokia   expects to start selling phones for China's 3G  mobile technology TD-SCDMA in the first half of next year, when  the network is up and running, a company official said.
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Japan&#39;s biggest mobile telecom carrier gave its strongest support yet to&#160;Google&#39;s Android platform&#160;on Thursday when it said it is considering a cell phone based on the technology.&quot;We are starting discussions to offer handsets that will have the Android operating system,&quot; said Takeshi Natsuno, managing director of the multimedia services department at NTT DoCoMo.The talks include getting support for I-mode, DoCoMo&#39;s hit mobile Internet service, on the Android platform. Nearly 48 million of DoCoMo&#39;s 53 million customers subscribe to I-mode, so having it on Android will be key to the Google platform&#39;s success in Japan.Android is a Linux-based platform for cell phones that will combine open-source components and include an operating system, middleware stack, customizable user interface and applications.NTT DoCoMo is one of the founding members of the Open Handset Alliance, the group developing Android. Until Thursday hadn&#39;t disclosed what it hoped to gain from its participation in the group, which includes about 40 companies including some of the biggest names in the cell phone industry.&quot;When I look at the prototype, the Android-based handset works really well even on some of the cheaper handset designs,&quot; said Natsuno.Natsuno didn&#39;t provide any specifics about when such a handset might be available. When the Open Handset Alliance was launched last year Google said that it expected the first phones running the software to appear in late 2008.Despite its support for Android, NTT DoCoMo is also working with companies developing rival platforms. It has an alliance with Access, a Japanese software company with which is has deep ties, on the Access Linux Platform (ALP). DoCoMo is working on a &quot;carrier pack,&quot; a set of unique products and services, that can run on ALP, which is intended to be a common Linux platform for cell phones.Natsuno&#39;s comments came at a Tokyo news conference held to detail a partnership between the carrier and Google.The alliance will see Google products and applications added to DoCoMo handsets. These will include the addition of a Google search box on the main I-mode menu page from which users will access mobile and PC Web sites. Google Ads will appear alongside search results. The two companies said they are also planning to bring more Google services, such as Google Maps, to handsets and build in support for Flash video so that users can access and stream content from YouTube.Google will appear as the default start page on mobile phones that feature browsers for the full Internet.The deal is Google&#39;s second in the mobile space in Japan. It already has a deal with second-ranked carrier &quot;au&quot; to which it provides search and advertising services. Number three carrier Softbank Mobile has a link with Yahoo Japan, the portal in which its parent company, Softbank, is the biggest shareholder.&#160;
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NTT DoCoMo, top mobile phone carrier in Japan, and Motorola Inc., worldâs number two cell-phone maker, plans to develop third-generation cell phones that allow subscribers in Japan to use services in other parts of Asia and Europe.
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(InfoWorld) - The Big Wait continues: Xudong Wang, Minister of China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), spoke about the growth of the country's communications sector, about the rollout of telecommunication infrastructure to rural areas and about the need to fight cybercrime. But the high-ranking official, in his keynote speech Monday at the opening of the Telecom World event in Hong Kong, avoided discussing an issue of huge interest to many attendees: when and how the government plans to issue 3G (third-generation) mobile telecommunications licenses. Manufacturers, operators, and millions of consumers in China eagerly await the arrival of high-speed mobile phone service in the world's largest wireless market. But the government, despite growing pressure to unveil its 3G plans ahead of the Olympic Games in 2008, remains tight-lipped. At present, WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), which dominates Europe and huge chunks of Asia, the U.S.-supported CDMA 2000, and China's self-developed TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) are the three potential 3G standards for China. TD-SCDMA has secured extended financial and policy support from the Chinese government. InsidersÂ expect the government to begin issuing 3G licensesÂ in early 2007 after the TD-SCDMA standard is ready for commercial deployment. While Wang preferred to sidestep 3G in his keynote, Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media at the European Commission, chose to address the issue directly in her speech. "We are living in an open world," Reding said at the telecom event, organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations agency. "The government should not be setting standards, but should be providing the legal framework to create free and open competitive standard setting." Reding's remarks mirrored the concerns of European WCDMA equipment makers, such as Nokia and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, that worry about being locked out of China if the government favors theÂ homegrown TD-SCDMA standardÂ and local suppliers like ZTE that support it.
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(InfoWorld) - Some of the world's biggest cellular operators have gotten together to promote their vision of what next-generation mobile technology should look like. Sprint Nextel Corp., Vodafone Group PLC, China Mobile Communications Corp., Orange PLC, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Royal KPN NV and T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG announced Thursday they have formed the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) initiative. NGMN, a nonprofit group based in London, won't push a particular type of network but rather a set of guidelines that future technologies should follow, said Steve Falk, vice president of global standards at Sprint. "We think that we can speak with a more organized and concerted voice that we have in the past," Falk said. Vendors and standards organizations had stronger voices in the development of 2G (second-generation) and 3G systems. Carriers will represent the interests of their customers, the end users, he said. The group, which is already consulting with equipment vendors but will only include carriers as members, may be pitting itself against Qualcomm Inc., which developed much of the current 3G (third-generation) technology and has been criticized in some quarters for its royalty and licensing practices. The NGMN is looking toward the technologies to follow 3G systems such as HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) and EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized). Carriers are still deploying and upgrading those networks, which are based on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) respectively, but even faster technologies are coming down the road. Sprint, for one, has called WiMax its 4G technology and plans to roll it out across the U.S. within the next few years. In choosing WiMax, the carrier used some of the guidelines NGMN was formulating, Falk said. Among NGMN's recommended features are the following: - high data throughput with low latency - low operation and maintenance costs - support for authentication, security and differentiated quality of service Carriers also will favor technologies covered by FRAND (fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory) intellectual property rules, Falk said. "One of the principles of NGMN is an open and transparent IPR (intellectual property rights) regime," he said. The NGMN would like to see a single technology track and believes greater harmony will lower costs and speed up product development for vendors, too. "In some cases, 2G and 3G vendors have had to do very costly and time-consuming development on three to five different kinds of technology," Falk said. Being able to focus on one or two tracks, in turn, will help bring products and services to mobile subscribers faster and more economically, he said.
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Wireless speeds of 300 Mbps downstream. That&#39;s the goal of &quot;Super 3G&quot; experiments that Japanese telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo will begin this month.
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Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. unveiled in Beijing on Tuesday its first WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) cell phone for the international market, the company said in Tokyo.
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Top Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo  9437.T said on Thursday it would launch a 3G phone equipped  for use overseas and including a video conferencing function,  getting a leg-up on its closest rival, KDDI Corp. 9433.T.
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Japan's NTT DoCoMo will join hands with Cingular Wireless of the United States, aiming to unify technical specifications for third-generation (3G) cellphones and services.
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TOKYO -- NTT DoCoMo Inc. has decided to work with Cingular Wireless LLC on 3G (third-generation) cellular telephone technology following the latter's acquisition of NTT DoCoMo's current U.S. partner, AT&T Wireless Services Inc., the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily reported in its Thursday morning edition.
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China may issue long-awaited licenses to build third generation (3G) mobile phone networks &quot;very soon,&quot; the government's top telecom official said.
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La collaborazione tra NTT DoCoMo e Fujitsu ha portato allo sviluppo del primo cellulare 3G dotato di batteria a combustibile. Grazie alla innovativa tecnologia i telefonini UMTS potranno avere unâ autonomia
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With their home market saturated, Japan&#39;s handset makers finally look abroad. Meanwhile, margins have plunged. When NTT Docomo (DCM ) unveiled its latest third-generation mobile phones on Nov. 17, gadget lovers were not disappointed.
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Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437.T), Fuji  Television Network Inc. (4676.T), Nippon Broadcasting System  Inc. and other firms will team up to develop new broadcast  services for cellphones, the companies said on Wednesday.
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NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile carrier, is to spearhead the rollout of an advanced version of its 3G (third-generation) services called Super 3G, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
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Taiwan capital says network will reach 90% of population of 3M, will charge users for access. TAIPEI  - Taipei plans to make wireless Internet access available across the Taiwan capital by the end