
NTT
DoCoMo to launch high-speed data communications service NTT DoCoMo
Inc. said Thursday it will launch a high-speed data communications service next
week to allow mobile phones to download music and video data 10 times faster than
at present. Vodafone K.K. will follow suit in October and KDDI
Corp. in December. These Japanese mobile phone service providers are thus
intensifying the race to obtain more customers, given the introduction in October
of a portable number system allowing people to easily change providers while keeping
the same phone numbers. NTT DoCoMo said it will soon put on sale mobile
handsets available for the high-speed data communications services that will start
in central Tokyo on Aug. 31. By March 200 |