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NTT DoCoMo's $6bn US 3G bet
News The planned launch will be "the first deployment of true 3G wireless data services based on W-CDMA technology in North America", according to NTT DoCoMo. Starting on Tuesday, AT&T Wireless has exactly two years to roll out NTT DoCoMo's new... [02 Jan 2003]
3GSM: Mobile expectations - the lessons of DoCoMo
News The president and CEO of NTT DoCoMo, Masao Nakamura, has been sharing some of his company's plans for advanced mobile technology - and talking about how users in his home market can nowadays be a tough crowd to please. [16 Feb 2005]
Will Qualcomm go for a W-CDMA royalty cap?
News Handset makers Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens, along with Japanese mobile communications company NTT DoCoMo, own at least 60 per cent of W-CDMA patents. NTT DoCoMo has the world's only working commercial W-CDMA network but most other carriers are... [08 Nov 2002]
3GSM Review: Ovum on vendors' flight from hype
Comment There were, as ever, a multiplicity of exciting new devices, perhaps most notably the FOMA handsets on the NTT DoCoMo stand. In previous years anything labelled a reality room was almost duty bound to feature demonstrations of the sort of things... [01 Mar 2002]
3GSM: The future's bright. The future's crustacean...
Comment Meanwhile NTT DoCoMo head honcho Keiji Tachikawa took the podium to talk mainly about m-payments and his company turning phones into wallets later this year. Despite the ongoing success of the proprietary i-mode in Japan - 36 million users and... [21 Feb 2003]
3G - Mobile in a Minute
White Paper G systems consist of the two main standards, CDMA2000 and W-CDMA, as well as other 3G variants such as NTT DoCoMo's Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access (FOMA) and Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) used primarily in... [24 Feb 2004]
A 3G Success Story - The Launch of FOMA
White Paper NTT DoCoMo has based the launch of FOMA, their first 3G network, on the Gemplus USIM card, GemXplore 3G, making Gemplus the only European smart card manufacturer with a live and working 3G card in a commercial network. [21 Jul 2005]
Symbian looks to the rising sun
News Smartphone software venture, Symbian is to team up with NTT DoCoMo in an effort to sell its technology into the Japanese market. NTT DoCoMo said Symbian's Epoc operating system, first developed by Psion for its handheld computers, is central to the... [16 Mar 1999]
Cheat Sheet: 3G - in all its flavours
Cheat Sheet Meanwhile giant NTT DoCoMo uses W-CDMA too. Those that use GSM now - which includes virtually all of Europe - see an upgrade path to 3G from their second-generation GSM networks to a type of 3G called W-CDMA, also synonymous with the term UMTS... [04 Aug 2004]
Inside Qualcomm: a vendor dossier
Comment Given the efficiencies of being an IPR company - where Qualcomm has its highest margins - and the early roll out of its CDMA2000 1x technology in the US, South Korea (even though operators there hold W-CDMA licences) and Japan (where KDDI's... [19 Nov 2002]
ITU 03 diary - Access to wireless, TV channels and flight details on the go
Comment His presentation featured plenty of detail about CDMA2000 - used by KDDI in Japan yet generally overshadowed by what NTT DoCoMo and Japan Telecom are doing with ‘the other standard’ - but most notably an animated videophone application. [15 Oct 2003]
NTT is coming to London
News NTT DoCoMo has chosen London as the new base for its European headquarters and the hub of its planned promotion of i-mode and 3G services across the continent. Kunihiko Adachi, former president of NTT DoCoMo Tokai, will become managing director of... [23 Jul 2002]
Asia-Pacific RIM: BlackBerry goes to Japan
News RIM is to debut its trademark email device in Japan for the first time after inking a deal with the country's largest carrier, NTT DoCoMo. NTT DoCoMo will launch the devices from this autumn, RIM said, although the handset maker is yet to provide... [08 Jun 2006]
DoCoMo explores single silicon handset
News Giant mobile operator NTT DoCoMo is working on a single piece of silicon that will allow phone handsets to roam between 3G and earlier GSM networks around the world. NTT's 3G phones, based on a version of the W-CDMA standard most countries will use... [13 Jul 2004]
Vodafone kicks off 3G in Japan, while Orange ditches plans in Sweden
News The launch is the company's first 3G foray globally, yet behind 3G debuts of the two other major Japanese operators, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI. DoCoMo, which uses W-CDMA technology like J-Phone, had around 150,000 3G users after 14 months. [20 Dec 2002]
