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To: Ramsey Su who started this subject3/28/2002 7:31:20 AM
From: foundation  Read Replies (2) of 196633
 
KDDI Aims to Push DoCoMo Aside

(28/03/2002, BWCS Staff) DoCoMo in Japan is soon to face up to high-speed mobile competition, according to the country’s second largest mobile company KDDI. The second ranked operator says it plans to start snatching customers from DoCoMo after the launch of its new high-speed CDMA2000 1x services on April 1.

KDDI’s marketing department claims that its phones will be able to offer data transfer speeds of up to 144Kbps compared to the maximum 384Kbps offered by DoCoMo’s FoOMA service. In reality both fall some way short of this mark.

DoCoMo, of course, has been offering its 3G service since October 2001 but has so far failed to impress rivals or shareholders with the number of subscribers it has managed to garner. It seems likely that it will fall some way short of its target of 150,000 3G customers by the end of this month. At the last count in February it had mustered some 57,500 hardy souls.

KDDI argues that its service, which will kick off with a coverage of around 70% of the Japanese population, will quickly outstrip DoCoMo’s FOMA, which only covers 22% of the population. DoCoMo plans to push its 3G service to cover the whole of Japan by 2004, while KDDI says it will have 90% of the country’s population covered by the end of March next year.

bwcs.com
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