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To: Cooters who wrote (84988)	10/27/2000 6:08:52 AM
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NTT DoCoMo's Tachikawa on New Technology, Expansion: Comment --From AOL.-- Cooters Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The following are comments by NTT DoCoMo Chief Executive Keiji Tachikawa on the outlook for high-speed cellular phone service using W-CDMA, or wideband code division multiple access. Tachikawa also spoke on the company's overseas expansion plans. He made his remarks in an interview. On DoCoMo's new high-speed cellular phone service, scheduled to start in May 2001 in Japan: ``We expect profit (from the high-speed cellular phone business) for the first time in the year starting April 2005. ``We want to have 150,000 users by March 2003. Our target will be mainly corporate users at that time. ``Our subscription forecast is modest. It's because our service area is limited (to Tokyo, Kawasaki and Yokohama). ``I know there will be bugs in the service at the beginning. We want to remove all those bugs before we expand the service area.'' On U.S. sales of radio spectrum scheduled in December and March: ``We are not planning to participate in either of the auctions. Because the spectrum available at the next auction isn't for the next-generation phone service. That is a PCS spectrum. We are not planning to participate in the later auction (in March) for spectrum in the 700 megahertz band either. It will take time for us to use that spectrum for the next-generation cellular phone service.'' On the European market for high speed cellular phone service; ``I expect the launch of the third-generation phone service in Europe will be earlier than expected. They want to start early because they have to make returns on their investment in the license. ``One of the carriers will start the service at the end of 2001 at the earliest. That carrier might be Hutchison UK 3G Holdings (in which DoCoMo has a 20 percent stake.)'' On the China market: ``I don't want to say China is a market we want to enter. I would say we want to work with Chinese carriers.'' On EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution), technology to send data faster on cellular phones, versus GPRS (Global Packet Radio Service): ``I understand why phone operators want to introduce GPRS. GPRS is necessary to boost the value of second-generation cellular phone service. We are also using packet switched transmission system (for i-mode mobile Internet service). But I don't think EDGE is necessary. We can do the same thing with W- CDMA.'' Oct/27/2000 4:03 ET

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