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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DoCoMo Downgrades 3G Forecasts Again
September 5, 2002 - source: BWCS
The President of NTT DoCoMo has stated that the company may miss
its end of fiscal year 3G subscriber target for the second year
running. DoCoMo had expected to have signed up 1.38 million FOMA
subscribers by 31 March 2003. However with just 127,400 customers
at the end of July DoCoMo would have to see a significant increase
in its monthly take-up rate to have any hope of meeting its target.
In March this year FOMA subscriptions were 61,000 short of their
150,000 target.
Since its launch in October 2001 FOMA has added an average of 11,581
customers per month and during the second quarter of 2002 its monthly
net additions dropped sharply from 16,100 in April to 6,800 in May
and just 2,200 in June. This decline came largely in response to
the April launch of KDDI’s rival 3G service, which is priced lower
than FOMA and also provides superior coverage and backwards compatibility
with second generation CDMA services. Average monthly subscriptions
for KDDI’s CDMA2000 service are running at 410,975.
Following a reduction in its service pricing FOMA subscriptions
increased to 12,900 in July. However in order to meet its March
2003 target DoCoMo would need 3G monthly additions to reach five-fold
that of FOMA’s best-ever month consistently for the next eight months
(including August). Although the latest round of tariff reductions
appear to have a positive effect on 3G take-up,with FOMA’s average
revenue per user dropping below that of second generation services
DoCoMo will not be keen to undertake further price cuts.
For a company so used to soaring subscriber figures consumer apathy
towards FOMA represents a new challenge for DoCoMo and one that
you can be sure that it is already working hard behind the scenes
to overcome.
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3G Motorola A920
