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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (9266)	4/25/2000 7:25:00 PM
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DDI and IDO offer international roaming in Japan By Vanessa Clark, Total Telecom 25 April 2000 Seamless international roaming became a reality on Friday for Japanese mobile users when DDI and IDO launched a roaming service on their cdmaOne network. Japanese subscribers will initially be able to roam to Korea and Hong Kong without swapping their handsets. North America and Australia - in time for the Sydney Olympics - are set to be included in a few months time. One small caveat is that subscribers will have to upgrade their handsets to take advantage of the service, according to a Motorola spokesman. Motorola supplied the cdmaOne network to the pair. At the moment, Sanyo is the only supplier of the upgraded handsets. According to a Reuters report earlier this month, the service will charge 250 yen per minute for calls from South Korea to Japan and 350 yen per minute for calls from Hong Kong to Japan. Up until now, Japanese travellers have not had access to seamless international roaming as they have been restricted to PDC technology, an indigenous standard unavailable anywhere outside Japan. DDI and IDO have previously offered national roaming between their regional cdmaOne networks launched jointly by DDI and IDO nationwide in April last year. The companies are in the process of merging with international carrier KDD in October. "We believe that new demand for this international roaming service will add substantially to our subscriber base in the same way our subscriber numbers have increased following the launch earlier this year of our high-speed wireless Internet access service," said Satoshi Nakagawa, president of IDO Corp.