Japan&#39;s Softbank to offer new phone service, NTT seen hit
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Japanese telecoms operator and Internet investor Softbank Corp said on Monday it was to introduce a new phone service, which analysts said was likely to be a cut-rate, fixed-line service that could hit dominant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT
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NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile carrier, may offer a cell phone based on Google's Android platform.
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Japan's Softbank Corp said on Wednesday  it has begun offering an Apple Computer Inc. iPod nano packaged  with one of its own mobile phones.
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British giant Vodafone said it aimed to become the second biggest operator in Japan through an aggressive push in third-generation (3G) service which is taking off in the country.
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InfoWorld - NTT DoCoMo&#39;s 3G network in part of central Tokyo was hit by trouble on Saturday resulting in problems for tens of thousands of users.
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NTT (NYSE:DCM) DoCoMo,Japan&#39;s leading mobile phone company, is set to make a &quot;sizeable&quot; investment in the booming markets of Vietnam, China or India, reversing a long-held decision to stay away from overseas markets after losing $9bn in botched investments six years ago.
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NTT DoCoMo, Japan&#39;s largest mobile operator, will join US cell phone company Cingular Wireless in a partnership aimed at unifying third-generation cell phone technology and services, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said on Thursday.
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NTT DoCoMo is looking to boost its services to business users in Japan with a new, more advanced handset. It has signed a deal with Motorola to jointly develop a FOMA handset targeting business users and taking
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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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Japan's Softbank Corp (9984.T) is  considering offering free calls between its mobile phone and  Web-based fixed line phone users to boost its subscriber base,  sources close to the matter said on Tuesday.
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Cable and Wireless is in talks to quit Japan by selling its money-losing Japanese unit to Softbank or an investment firm in Tokyo.
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Softbank's hopes of starting a mobile phone service were dealt a blow on Monday after the Japanese telecoms regulator decided not to allocate bandwidth to new entrants for the time being.
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(InfoWorld) - A Japanese mobile carrier will test a cellular technology that promises downloads as fast as 42.2Mbps (bits per second) in Tokyo this month. The tests will be conducted by IPMobile, a new cellular carrier that is planning to launch a data-centric commercial service in the Tokyo area next year based on the TD-CDMA (time division code division multiple access). The service had been due to launch in October 2006 in three cities, but has been scaled back to just Tokyo and will launch about six months later than planned. IPMobile's initial commercial service will offer a maximum theoretical download speed of 11Mbps but the trials taking place this month will test out a more advanced version of the technology called E-R7 (evolved release 7), said Yumi Sakamoto, a spokeswoman for the company. The field trials will test how well the signals travel, real-life download speed, and various Internet applications. Also included will be streaming of high-definition television. IPMobile, a privately financed company, holds one of three licenses recently issued by the Japanese government to provide cellular service in Japan. Its shareholders include Internet Initiative JapanÂ (IIJ), CSK Group, Shoeisha Co., and the Rakuten Group. When it launches its service next year it will be entering a competitive marketplace. All three of Japan's major cellular carriers have just launched high-speed data services. NTT DoCoMo and SoftbankÂ are offering 3.6Mbps HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) on their respective WCDMA (Wideband CDMA) networks and KDDIÂ is also offering equally fast downloads on a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev.A network. All three carriers charge PC users according to the amount of data they send and receive and there are no flat-rate plans that cover PC use. A fourth carrier, Willcom, is enjoying popularity among PC users despite download speeds of between 32kbps and 256kbps because it offers a flat-rate plan.
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Softbank, the Japanese telecommunications conglomerate, on Thursday closed one of the world's biggest whole-business securitisations on record, a Y1,442bn ($12.4bn) refinancing of the purchase of Vodafone Japan's mobile business.
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British telecommunications company Cable &amp; Wireless PLC is selling its Japanese business to Tokyo-based broadband services provider Softbank Corp.
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Softbank Corp , Japan's smallest  mobile phone carrier, said on Monday it would not charge  monthly fees for three years to students signing up to the  carrier for the first time. Softbank, which is trying to grab  market share in a saturated market, outstripped bigger rivals  NTT DoCoMo Inc  and KDDI Corp  in netting new  users in December for the eighth straight month.
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Britain's Cable and Wireless is in talks to quit Japan by selling its money-losing Japanese unit to Softbank or an investment firm in Tokyo.