NTT DoCoMo to get 3G competition

KDDI has scheduled the nationwide commercial launch of its third generation (3G) data and voice services for April 1, 2002, using wireless network infrastructure from Motorola. "This is a great moment in time for KDDI and Motorola," said Tadashi Onodera, president of KDDI Corporation. "We are proud that our customers will enjoy the same mobile Internet services, such as movie clip transmission, GPS navigation and WAP 2.0, that we have offered since December of last year, but at much higher speeds." KDDI has been offering its customers nationwide packet data mobile services since Jan. 7, 2000, when it launched IS-95B high-speed packet data service. IS-95B enables peak data speeds of up to 64 Kbps. Besides being backward compatible with IS-95A and IS-95B, CDMA2000 1X technology nearly doubles the voice capacity and is capable of transmitting data on mobile devices at peak rates of up to 153 Kbps.">

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	NTT DoCoMo to get 3G competition	By Jørgen Sundgot, Tuesday 19 March 2002

Japan's KDDI has scheduled the nationwide commercial launch of its third generation (3G) data and voice services for April 1, 2002, using wireless network infrastructure from Motorola. "This is a great moment in time for KDDI and Motorola," said Tadashi Onodera, president of KDDI Corporation. "We are proud that our customers will enjoy the same mobile Internet services, such as movie clip transmission, GPS navigation and WAP 2.0, that we have offered since December of last year, but at much higher speeds." KDDI has been offering its customers nationwide packet data mobile services since Jan. 7, 2000, when it launched IS-95B high-speed packet data service. IS-95B enables peak data speeds of up to 64 Kbps. Besides being backward compatible with IS-95A and IS-95B, CDMA2000 1X technology nearly doubles the voice capacity and is capable of transmitting data on mobile devices at peak rates of up to 153 Kbps.