ZTE plans to expand in Japan Mobile market, with the launch of its first product with Japan communications. From 7 August, Chinese equipment maker’s USB modem will be available with the MVNO, according to media report. As per Qian Qiang statement, ZTE is targeting sales $100 million by 2010 in japan.
Japan Communications offers a suggested retail price of JPY 39,900 for the ZTE device, with a service plan allowing 150 hours of data communications. Emobile introduced a Huawei handset in June for JPY 5,890 with a two-year contract, a price less than half that of domestic handsets with the same plan. The voice-only phone features a 2-inch LCD screen and 2 megapixel camera.
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JAJAH and EMOBILE, the innovative companies of Japan, world’s leading mobile telephony market, have made purely IP-based mobile telephony a reality when the world is still intending to do so.
JAJAH,a global communication company, today announced that, together with EMOBILE, it ha s launched an IP-only mobile device- the EM-ONE. With this device, subscribers in Japan will now be able to make and recieve voice-over-mobile-broadband calls via its JIJAH Mobile software client without the traditional mobile connection.
HSDPA connection, is the data channel used by JAJAH Mobile software to deliver voice services. JAJAH and EMOBILE, in 2007 released an outbound-only IP-mobile service, which attracted thousands of Japanese users and now for EMOBILE subscribers this service is all set to be used not only to make but also to recieve calls.
The EMOBILE subscribers can purchase their own Direct Inward Dialing (DID) for a small monthly fee of $5 approx. The DID number when used in their Sharp EM-ONE Ultra Mobile Device running Windows Mobile 6, which will turn their device into a fully functional device without a cellular connection and the number will operate as any normal phone number.
- October 5th, 2007
- 1:10 pm
Japanese mobile operator Emobile has adopted mobile IP phones on its EM branded HSDPA services. The ONE Alpha phone is offered in partnership with VoIP telephony company Jajah. The handset comes preinstalled with a Jajah IP telephony application specially developed for Emobile. Domestic fixed calls are charged at JPY 2.4 per minute while domestic mobiles can be called for JPY 15.99 per minute. Calls to fixed numbers in the US, China and Taiwan cost JPY 2.14, calls to France, Germany, Italy and Spain cost JPY 2.36 per minute, calls to Hong Kong cost JPY 2.7 and calls to Singapore are charged at JPY 2.4 per minute.
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- September 25th, 2007
- 12:45 pm
Huawei Technologies has won a network expansion contract from Japanese mobile operator eMobile. Under the agreement, Huawei will provide eMobile with advanced High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technologies and expand the network to cover the vicinity of Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. More than 2,300 Distributed Node Bs will be deployed, including the indoor Distributed base station system (iDBS) which will provide eMobile with coverage in Tokyo’s subway and business areas. Huawei has been working with eMobile since July 2006 when eMobile selected Huawei as a partner for its 3G network construction in Japan.
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Japan ended June with a total of 98.06 million mobile users, up from 97.58 at end-May. NTT DoCoMo added 88,800 new subscribers in June, of which 54,000 were 2in1 subscribers. The company ended the month with a total of 52.86 million mobile users, which includes 66,800 2in1 subscribers. Rival KDDI ended the month with a total of 28.71 million customers, comprising 28.11 au users and 599,700 TU-KA subscribers. For the au service the operator signed-up 207,700 new customers and the TU-KA service shed 74,500 subscribers. Softbank Mobile attracted 204,800 new subscribers ending June with 16.44 million customers. Newcomer eMobile ended the month with 60,200 subscribers.
Of NTT DoCoMo’s net adds in June, 745,300 chose the company’s WCDMA services which brings DoCoMo’s WCDMA base to a total of 37.85 million. Softbank Mobile added 527,100 WCDMA customers and ended the month with a total of 9.22 million. KDDI’s au service includes 27.56 million CDMA 1X customers, after adding 222,000 new CDMA 1X subscribers during the month. eMobile’s customer base consists entirely of WCDMA subscribers.
TT DoCoMo further added 58,700 i-mode customers in June to bring its total to 47.73 million. Rival KDDI added 137,100 EZweb customers to reach a total of 24.09 million, and Softbank Mobile’s Yahoo! Keitai user base rose to 13.84 million after adding 222,400 new users.
The number of PHS customers in Japan fell to 5.02 million at the end of May, down by 6,400 as NTT DoCoMo shed 28,400 PHS subscribers. NTT DoCoMo plans to terminate its PSH service in 2008 and currently has 374,000 PHS users. Willcom, however, added 22,000 new customers to reach a total of 4.65 million.
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Investment group Goldman Sachs is ready to pay JPY12 billion (USD100 million) to raise its stake in eMobile, the wireless arm of Japan’s eAccess group, from 29.8% to 35.7%, says Reuters. The move, which will see eAccess’ holding drop from 43.5% to 37.6%, will enable the parent company to strengthen its balance sheet and increase its dividend, while Goldman Sachs will yield a bigger return when the unit is floated – expected in 2011-12. The share sale would transform eMobile from a consolidated subsidiary into an affiliate, reducing the losses eAccess is required to book on its earnings sheet. The parent was one of three companies awarded mobile licences in 2005. It has since raised USD3 billion through loans and via the sale of shares to the likes of Goldman Sachs and Temasek (Singapore) to fund the rollout of its nationwide network.
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ZTE targets sales worth $100m by 2010 in Japan
