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VoIP on Japanese Mobiles by 2007

October 13, 2005 - source: BWCS

Ever ready to back a new technology, the Japanese government has said that it expects to sanction mobile Voice over Internet telephony by 2007. The new service, which is currently being studied by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Tokyo, will allow citizens to use Voice-over-Internet Protocol services, on their mobile phones.

Japan, which is fast becoming the most fibred nation on earth as NTT and its rivals roll out ever more fibre-to-the-home connections, has become used to ultra-fast broadband access and carrier standard VoIP telephony services on the fixed network. The new mobile service would be an extension of this.

Currently a limited number of mobile customers can use suitably adapted handsets to access VoIP at WiFi hotspots around Japan. The proposal for the network, which will also transmit large amounts of data such as streaming video on cell phones, is being discussed in a ministry panel of experts and telecommunications officials which is set to reach a decision in December of this year.

While service details remain sketchy, several carriers are expected to apply for licences to offer mobile VoIP, which will inevitably be less expensive to the consumer than mobile calls are now. The Internet Protocol mobile phones are expected to relay information at up to 15 Mbps- more than a thousand times faster than the fastest third-generation cell phones now available in Japan at 384 kbps.