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DDI to Use Qualcomm Phone Standard, Not
DoCoMo's, Nikkei Says
By Tak Kumakura
Tokyo, May 2 (Bloomberg) -- DDI Corp. has decided to adopt
Qualcomm Inc.'s cdma2000 technology for a new mobile phone service
that starts in Japan in 2002, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said,
without citing sources. DDI, which had planned to use a standard
developed by NTT DoCoMo Inc., will use the U.S. system instead in
part because DoCoMo is a competitor, the report said.
DDI, Japan's second-biggest mobile phone company, must
announce which standard to choose by May 12, the government's
deadline for license application.
(Nihon Keizai, 5/2, p.11)
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