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To: GO*QCOM who wrote (223)	5/5/2000 4:29:00 PM
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GENEVA, May 5 (Kyodo) - The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on Friday adopted five new formats -- including one jointly proposed by Japan and Europe -- for a new generation of mobile phones with high-speed data transmission capabilities, an ITU spokesman said. The ITU spokesman, reached by telephone from Geneva, said the measure was taken at ITU's World Radio-communication Conference now under way in Istanbul, Turkey. The ITU move paves the way for mobile telephone makers to kick off a fierce competition for the third-generation mobile phone systems in a global market worth billions of dollars. Seiji Tanaka, a senior official of Japan's Posts and Telecommunications Ministry currently in Instanbul for the ITU conference, welcomed the ITU move, calling it ''epoch-making.'' ''This is an epoch-making decision and heralds a new age in the development of global standards,'' he said. Apart from the wide-band CDMA (code division multiple access) format jointly proposed by Japan and Europe, the other newly recognized formats include a separate CDMA format developed in the United States and a format known as TDMA, or time division multiple access. These new formats for the next-generation mobile phone systems are be based on the ITU's IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunications 2000) standard. Apart from high-speed communication capabilities, IMT-2000 also enables mobile telephone users to use their phone sets anywhere in the world. It also has a higher sound quality than existing systems. Anticipating the ITU's move, Fujitsu Ltd. of Japan and Alcatel of France said earlier this week that they have agreed to set up a joint venture to develop and manufacture next-generation mobile phone systems based on the wide-band CDMA format.