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To: slacker711 who wrote (14493)	9/1/2001 12:11:59 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 196562

Docomo is going to roll-out W-CDMA beginning October 1st....this is damn good news (at least to me). nni.nikkei.co.jp Saturday, September 1, 2001 DoCoMo To Launch 3G Cell Phone Service Oct 1 TOKYO (Nikkei)--NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437) has decided to begin the world's first full-scale commercial 3G (third-generation) cellular phone service Oct. 1, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun learned Friday. The service, called FOMA (Freedom Of Mobile multimedia Access), will be offered in Tokyo's 23 wards as well as parts of Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba prefectures within 30km of central Tokyo. New handsets will go on sale starting that month at about 50,000 yen apiece. DoCoMo aims for 150,000 subscribers by the end of March 2002. Voice communications fees will be set at about the same level as current digital cell phone services. Data communications services, which enable the transmission of video, will carry a variety of fees. Per packet communications fees for transmitting video, which requires massive volumes of data, will be set at less than one-tenth the fees for digital cell phone services in a bid to promote corporate use. DoCoMo began testing the service May 30 and had postponed the full launch until October. Technical problems such as callers being cut off or having difficulty getting connected had stirred fears that it would be delayed yet again. (The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Saturday morning edition)