Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba Form Alliance for Development of 3G Mobile Phones

date: March 13, 2002

Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba today announced that they have reached an agreement to collaborate in the development of third-generation (3G) mobile phones.

The agreement concerns the joint development of a platform capable of becoming the global standard for 3G mobile phones. Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba will join forces to develop the new platform with the intention of putting their collaboration results to use in producing actual handsets in the near future.

With Internet integration and advances in high-speed, large-volume transmission services, the mobile phone market is witnessing a dramatic expansion of content for mobile handsets, including music, images, and video broadcasts. Mobile handsets, the cornerstone of the mobile Internet environment, have continually evolved and diversified in response to the growing number of services available. 3G phones will need to be compliant not only with an increasing variety of multimedia, but also with global roaming and other services emerging as a result of the increasingly globalized nature of society, the economy and information exchange.

Responding to such demands, Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba, industry in the areas of video-data compression, wireless and digital data processing, including data encryption and Bluetooth, and with proven track records in GSM, CDMA and PDC handsets, will begin collaborating in April this year on the development of a platform for multimedia-enabled next-generation dual-mode (UMTS, W-CDMA/GSM, GPRS) phones, with the aim of rapidly bringing products to market.

Specific details regarding the joint development schedule, division of responsibilities, structure of the development team and other issues will be decided in forthcoming discussions between the companies.

With a view to expanding their mobile phone businesses, Toshiba and Mitsubishi Electric also plan to build on the achievements of the proposed joint development of the 3G mobile phone platform, using this collaboration as a springboard to forge ties on an even broader front that includes complementing each other's technologies and establishing products for Europe, China and other overseas markets.

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