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To: foundation who wrote (15138)	9/21/2001 7:53:44 AM
From: foundation	Respond to of 196717

KDDI to Delay Start of Its Third-Generation Mobile Phone Service Till April 2002 [[[[ This article seems to hold more details. ]]] September 21, 2001 (TOKYO) -- KDDI Corp. said it will postpone the launch of its third-generation mobile phone service, "1x," until April 1, 2002. The company had originally planed to start the service in the autumn of 2001. The delay in the development of infrastructure software for 1x has forced the telephone carrier to postpone the launch of its service. For the present, the company will provide users with new applications, including the moving image distribution service, using the cdmaOne mobile phone network now in use. From December 2001, the number-two carrier in Japan will enhance the data transmission speed of its browser phone service "EZweb" from the present 14.4kbps to 64kbps throughout the country. At the same time, the company will start the following three new application services: (1) the moving-image distribution service for mobile phones named "ezmovie," (2) the positional information service using GPS named "eznavigation," and (3) the advanced version of "ezplus," the Java application service for mobile phones which was launched in July 2001. The "ezmovie" service enables users to watch the moving-image contents shown on the screen of a mobile phone. The maximum data transmission speed of this service is 64kbps. The details of the contents are now under discussion. As for the moving-image compression technology, the company will adopt the international standard "MPEG-4." "Eznavigation" is a location information service using "gpsOne" which enables the user to find the place where the mobile device is currently used, with the maximum error of plus or minus several meters. "GpsOne" is a location information system using both the cdmaOne network and the GPS satellite. The advanced version of "ezplus" enables HTTP communications between a mobile device and servers, which is impossible in the present service. The company plans to continue selling the mobile phones which are compatible with the present 14.4kbps EZweb and the high-performance devices which enable the moving-image distribution, as another lineup of products, even after it launches the CDMA2000 1x service next year. KDDI also plans to install the WAP2.0-based browser into all of its devices. "WAP2.0" is a global standard of the browser phone. After preparing new applications, including the moving image distribution service, as mentioned earlier, KDDI will start introducing the "1x" service with the maximum data transmission speed of 144kbps from April 2002. In the initial stage, it will launch the 1x service in Japan's major cities using the present 800MHz band. By the autumn of 2002, the company will introduce the 1x service using the 2GHz band. The fees for the communication services of the 64kbps EZweb and 1x have yet to be decided. NTT DoCoMo Inc. will start from Oct. 1, 2001 ttp://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/frm/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/cover/140488] its "FOMA" service, which will be the first third-generation mobile phone service in Japan. However, the company decided to postpone the launch of a moving image distribution service. DoCoMo also delayed the launch of "i-Motion" browser-phone service until December 2001 and that of "M-stage visual" moving image distribution service to next spring. In the "i-Motion" service, DoCoMo will provide moving image clippings of several dozens of seconds. Though KDDI will lag behind NTT DoCoMo in the launch of the third-generation mobile phone service, it aims to catch up with the rival carrier by launching other "next-generation-type" services nationwide as early as possible. (Nikkei Communications) nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com