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To: slacker711 who wrote (21056)	4/2/2002 9:54:25 PM
From: voop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197246

Slackman If NTT wants to roll out SOMA, does this imply they are losing the faith on FOMA? Do they want to compete with its own DoCoMo mobile arm, much like some suggest could happen with FON vs PCS if something was employed in MMDS spectra? And since WCDMA is less than unstable with revisions becoming revised is SOMA really a creditable threat (understood it has a Gilder blessing from two years ago)or should we assume it will be in 2003? I am surprised no one has mentioned the issue of NTT going after this with their DoCoMo offspring still a premature neonate on ventilator and IV nutrition.

To: slacker711 who wrote (21056)	4/3/2002 6:41:03 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197246

CNN muddles up the NTT story and calls it a LAN The author seems to have muddled together the NTT Comm Corp Soma story with NTT DoCoMo 802.11b plans a concluded that Soma is a LAN europe.cnn.com NTT unit looks at high-speed wireless access April 3, 2002 Posted: 0332 GMT TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- NTT Communications Corp, Japan's largest long-distance telephone and Internet services firm, said Wednesday it was seeking government approval to begin high-speed wireless Internet access services. The service would use a variant of wireless LAN (local area network) technology that allows users to access the Internet at up to 10 megabits per second without the need to extend costly communications lines into homes and businesses. The wireless service would allow downloads about 180 times faster than conventional dial-up connections. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily said trials would start in the northern summer and be deployed nationwide a year later. A spokesman for NTT Communications, which is wholly owned by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp, said his firm was interested in providing such services but was seeking government approval for use of the wireless transmission bandwith. Trial service Last month, mobile phone company NTT DoCoMo, a 64 percent-owned unit of NTT, said it would begin a trial wireless LAN service from April 15. Other units of the former state monopoly are also hoping to get into wireless LAN-based services, which are gaining ground in Japan and the United States. Service providers and manufacturers see wireless LAN as an ideal technology for Japan because of the high cost of connecting its congested buildings. NTT Communications would use a different wireless LAN technology from DoCoMo's that would allow signals to be sent and received over a much wider area, with a radius of about eight kilometers (five miles) instead of a radius of a few hundred meters.