Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
- previous news
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DoCoMo FOMA update
May 7, 2003
DoCoMo's 3G FOMA service is gaining higher user rates over the past three
months. Spurred by lighter handsets with longer battery life from Matsushita
Electric's F2051 and NEC's N2051. DoCoMo attracted 138,400 FOMA users
in March, almost four times the previous month's additions.
"Attractive handsets are key to maintaining customers and increasing
revenue from data transmission services,'' said Yasuo Kamaji, Sumitomo
Mitsui Asset Management.
Wider network coverage is also helping. As of March, DoCoMo's 3G high-speed
wireless service covered 91% of the nation, compared with 22 % at the
service's introduction back in October 2001.
This week, the company will begin selling a mobile phone built into a
wristwatch. Also in the works or on offer are a 3G handset to allow its
owner to determine their location with the aid of a GPS and a video clip
service that sends moving images directly to a phone. In September this
year, DoCoMo plans to introduce a commercial service that will allow video
conferencing calls between a FOMA handset and a personal computer.
In April, DoCoMo agreed to lend an additional £200 million to Hutchison
3G UK, its high- speed wireless venture with Hong Kong 's Hutchison Whampoa
and KPN.
Hutchison 3G will use the cash to help fund its 3G phone business. Investors
and analysts say they're concerned the call for additional cash may be
the first of many, a sentiment given weight when Royal KPN rejected a
similar request two days after DoCoMo had agreed to lend the money.
DoCoMo must also demonstrate its investments in overseas carriers can
return a profit, especially in the U.S. where the company owns a 16% stake
in AT&T. The U.S.'s third-largest mobile-phone company in December said
it would delay and scale back the introduction of its high-speed wireless
service until mid-2004.
Executives have also said they need to do a better job of convincing
subscribers to make the switch to newer high-speed phone services. The
reason: traffic on DoCoMo's older second- generation networks is at the
maximum.
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3G Motorola A920
