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Technology Stocks : NTT DoCoMo Inc. (DCM)
DCM 36.130.0%Mar 11 4:00 PM EST

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To: slacker711 who wrote (14)3/5/2004 9:45:18 AM
From: Eric L   of 55
 
Expanded FOMA Coverage

<< More coverage coming your way.... >>

Abstracted below;

* 12,700 base stations nationwide by the end of March.

* Coverage to 99% of the national population by the end of March.

* In-building Mobile Communications Systems (IMCS) will increase to about 1,600 nationwide, providing wider access to FOMA service in high-rise buildings, underground shopping malls and subway stations.

* DoCoMo is planning to install base stations in all 147 subway stations of the Eidan subway network.


While its great to have 99% coverage, one has to onder how dense that coverage is. Given the size of the country, that's a lot of base stations but one has to consider that those cells are in 2.1 GHz.

I'm still ondering if DoCoMo will move to UMTS at the 3GPP 'R/99R4' level or whether they will instead wait for R5 to make the move.

- Eric -
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