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 Sets Sights High (Again)
May 15, 2003 - source: BWCS
The Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has once again set itself an
ambitious target for 3G user numbers, despite having already failed to
meet its goals for 3G take-up. In an interview with Reuters, the company’s
senior executive vice president, Shiro Tsuda, said that DoCoMo is hoping
to have signed six million 3G subscribers by March 2005, up from its forecast
of almost 1.5 million by March next year.
With just 320,000 users by the end of the first quarter of this year,
DoCoMo has already been forced to lower its previous subscriber forecasts.
When it first launched its services in October 2001 the operator revealed
that it was hoping to have garnered six million 3G customers by March
2004. Poor coverage, a lack of dual-band handsets, and technical problems
have all been blamed for the slow take-up.
But even if DoCoMo did hit its targets in two years time, it would not
even match the 6.8 million customers who are now signed up to rival operator
KDDI’s competing high-speed service. DoCoMo is upbeat, however, saying
that its own 3G service, which currently offers data transmission speeds
of up to 384kbps, will be upgraded to offer maximum speeds of 14Mbps,
well above KDDI’s planned maximum of 2Mbps.
The upgrades will begin next year. Tsuda said: “We were originally considering
two-megabit service as the next step. But with the spread of wireless
LAN (local area network), and fixed-line services rapidly shifting to
broadband, we decided to go directly to a 14-megabit service.”
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