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To: TigerPaw who wrote (32655)	9/30/2000 6:15:41 PM
From: Another John	Respond to of 54805

Nice news from the Qualcomm moderated thread. Message 14487465 To: Gregory Mullineaux who wrote (3350) From: slacker711 Saturday, Sep 30, 2000 2:58 PM ET Reply # of 3355 KDDI plans to launch HDR in 2002.... nni.nikkei.co.jp Sunday, October 1, 2000 KDDI Plans World's Fastest Data Service For Cell Phones TOKYO (Nikkei)--KDDI, the telecommunications giant to be formed on Sunday from the merger of DDI Corp. (9433), KDD Corp. (9431) and IDO Corp., aims to launch the world's fastest cell phone-based data communications service in 2002, company sources said Saturday. The service will employ the High Data Rate (HDR) technology of Qualcomm Inc. The service will feature an average speed of 600 kilobits per second, 60% faster than a similar service NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437) plans to launch in May next year. This is the same speed that personal computer users receive via high-speed Internet connections and should be good enough for receiving video images of a reasonable quality, the sources said. The HDR technology developed by the California company enables the efficient, low-cost transmission of text, music and image data. It allows a maximum speed of 2.4 megabits per second, 75 times faster than regular phone lines. NTT DoCoMo plans to deliver 384 kilobits per second initially for a similar service. IDO has been conducting trials on the new technology with Hitachi Ltd. (6501), Sony Corp. (6758) and Kyocera Corp. (6971). KDDI plans to offer the new service initially in major cities and extend it nationwide in 2003. Related Story: