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
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Next generation users to increase 8 fold in Japan - IDC report
May 21, 2003
The number of 3G subscribers in Japan is likely to grow more than eightfold
in the next five years, says IDC Japan.
Users of the 3G service are likely to reach 69 million in 2007, IDC Japan
said in a research note. That would be up from about 8 million at the
end of April, or over 700%.
Market share for the 3G service is expected to grow to 77.6% of the total
cellphone market, compared with 10% at the end of April. Japanese mobile
carriers, including industry leader NTT DoCoMo, hope the 3G service will
be their next growth driver, with the conventional mobile market close
to saturation.
But DoCoMo's 3G service, dubbed FOMA, has been slow to catch on since
its launch in October 2001 due to poor battery life and limited area coverage,
raising investor concerns over its growth potential.
IDC said, however, that user migration to the 3G service is expected
to pick up speed in the second half of 2003 with KDDI launching an advanced
3G service and DoCoMo increasingly focusing resources on its 3G operation.
KDDI, Japan's second-largest telecoms operator, is set to offer an advanced
service based on cdma2000 1x EV-DO format, which is capable of receiving
information at 2.4 Mbps, by the end of 2003.
That is more than 16 times as fast as KDDI's current 3G service.
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3G Motorola A920
