Cell phones in Japan
Phone Networks in Japan |
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Latest Telecoms News from Japan |
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Japanese WiMAX Network Launched in Okinawa Japan's Okinawa Telemessage, a broadband access service provider has launched a WiMAX Network using Airspan solutions. Beginning with Nanjo City, Okinawa Telemessage will provide more than 500,000 households in Okinawa Prefecture with high-speed broadband access....Japan Considering Ban on Mobile Phones in Schools Japan's government is considering imposing a ban on school children taking their mobile phones into schools following an alarming rise in bullying associated with mobile phones....Bullet Speed Wi-Fi Service for Japan Japan's NTT Communications has announced plans to offer Wi-Fi service in the country's iconic Bullet Trains between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka - as they travel at speeds exceeding 270km per hour. ...Panasonic to buy Sanyo in $9 billion deal Panasonic will acquire rival Japanese electronics maker Sanyo for up to 800 billion yen ($9 billion) through a public tender offer after top shareholders, including Goldman Sachs, agreed to the takeover, the companies said Friday....Report: Goldman OKs Panasonic offer on Sanyo stake Panasonic has cleared a final obstacle to taking over Sanyo Electric after Goldman Sachs accepted its latest offer to buy the financial firm's stake in Sanyo, a Japanese business newspaper reported Thursday....DoCoMo Produces Mobile Chipset Supporting 100 Mbps Mobile Data Download Speeds Japan's DoCoMo says it has successfully developed a trial large-scale-integration (LSI) chip that consumes less than 0.04 W of power yet supports multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signal detection and decoding for downlink transmissions at 100 Mbps, the speed required for LTE networks....Report: Sharp to close LCD production lines Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. will shut down production lines for liquid crystal display panels at two domestic plants due to faltering global demand for personal computers and mobile phone handsets, a report said Thursday....Japan's KDDI to Overlay LTE on CDMA Network Japan's KDDI is to deploy a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) overlay on its CDMA network, using a core networking solution from Hitachi collaborating with Nortel....Panasonic slashes profit forecast by 90 percent Panasonic slashed its annual profit forecast by 90 percent, blaming a strong yen, sluggish sales and heavy discounting as electronics makers fight for market share amid a global economic downturn....Nokia has announced that it is to withdraw from the Japanese market - citing a miserly market share of just one percent as the reason. ... |