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DoCoMo’s Q3 profits soar 48%

On 02.01.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Due to the expiry of one-off write downs last year, 48% rise in the third-quarter fiscal profits has been reported by ¬Japan’s DoCoMo. Net income rose to 134.6 billion yen (US$1.5 billion) while operating profit recorded an increase of 28 percent to 217.4 billion yen in the quarter.

However, the revenue of the company declined 1.3 percent to 1.097 trillion yen (US$12 billion) and the total ARPU fell 4.5 percent to 5,470 yen as a fall in voice revenues failed to be offset by a smaller rise in data services. The year 2009 ended with 55.44 million mobile phone subscribers by the company.

According to DoCoMo President Ryuji Yamada, one of the main challenges facing the company now is how to increase the uptake of data services by mid- and light-user customers and the operators approach is to increase usability and offer services that seamlessly integrate with our customers’ lifestyles.

8-Band Power Amplifier developed by DoCoMo

On 01.11.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A prototype multi-band power amplifier accommodating eight frequency bands between 700 MHz and 2.5 GHz has been developed by Japan’s DoCoMo. The amplifier will pave the way for all in one, lightweight mobile phones capable of standalone wireless communications of different standards, including the forthcoming LTE standard as well as existing W-CDMA and GSM.

A separate single-band amplifier for each band will increase the size of the phone to accommodate new frequency bands for LTE services being launched in markets worldwide. The gain and output power of DoCoMo’s new amplifier is equivalent to conventional single-band amplifiers.

It employs matching circuits whose frequency characteristics are controlled by multiple semiconductor switches according to the required frequency band and hence enables 8- band operation. Power amplifiers are used in mobile phones to increase signal power up to levels required for wireless communication.

Tagged with: amplifier • ASIA • DoCoMo • GSM • Japan • LTE • W-CDMA

GSM service soon to be launched in India by Virgin Mobile

On 12.10.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With the goal of expanding its reach among the people and especially youths, Tata Teleservices youth brand, Virgin Mobile is planning to launch its GSM services.

Virgin Mobile GSM may use TATA DOCOMO’s network and will be first introduced in Chennai and Tamil Nadu Circle and Mumbai & Maharashtra circle.

TATA DOCOMO’s service is yet to roll out all over India while Virgin Mobile will also take time to establish its mark among the masses. Currently, Virgin Mobile is using TATA Indicom’s network to operate.

Highest no. of subscriber during the past 3 months has been recorded by TTSL and TATA DOCOMO is considered to be the major factor behind this growth.

Tagged with: ASIA • Chennai • DoCoMo • GSM • India • Maharashtra • Mumbai • Tamil Nadu • Tata • Tata Indicom • Tata Teleservices • Virgin Mobile

Case Study of the Mobile IP Centrex: A paper by NTTDoCoMo

On 11.30.09, In Mobile, By admin

Hiroyasu YUHASHI

Mobile Society Research Institute,

NTT DOCOMO, INC.

We just came across a case study of the Mobile IP Centrex.

The paper explores how at the initial stage of mobile phone penetration, cell phones were primarily used for business. With increased penetration, mobile phone use expanded vastly from business alone to personal and onto entertainment among other utilities. In 2004, a handset was released with a wireless LAN function, and mobile phones came to be incorporated into the ICT solution.

Hiroyasu YUHASHI of the Mobile Society Research Institute at NTT DOCOMO, INC believes that now, Mobile IP Centrex is one of the most popular ICT solutions for utilizing mobile phones.

In this paper, he has introduced a manufacturing company as the latest example of an enterprise providing an ICT solution using mobile phones. With the adoption of the mobile phone, the office environment was restructured. In addition, the increasing use of mobile phones changed the way people worked. Progressing from the introduction of the example, he considers the construction of a communication network for business as a result of the increasing use of mobile phones.

Click here to read the Case Study.

Tagged with: Centrex • DoCoMo • handset • Hiroyasu • Hosted PBX • IP Centrex • LAN • Mobile • Mobile Centrex • NTT • NTTDOCOMO • Study • YUHASHI

IndiaMobile 2009: India’s largest Mobile Usage study results to be announced shortly.

On 10.14.09, In Mobile, By Editor

Wireless Federation will shortly be announcing the availability of the results of India’s largest primary research project undertaken to study Mobile usage in India. The project is titled IndiaMobile 2009.

The survey is one of the most representative, independent enumeration of mobile phone usage in India. Close to 285,000 urban and rural Indians, covering all states and union territories–574 districts, 3,175 towns and over 2,800 villages were interviewed. With at least 30 plus sample each from 323 districts and 419 towns, and 100 plus sample each from 184 districts and 155 towns, the study could actually be the World’s largest mobile (telecom) usage study carried out in a single country. The survey was carried out by a reputed local research agency under the guidance of Wireless Federation.

With the Mobile sector in India seeing close to 20% of its market capitalisation knocked off in the last few days and increased momentum in the price war in India, the results from this survey will help the sector understand its customers better in order to re-gain some of its strength back.

Airtel, Aircel, Tata Indicom, Tata DoCoMo, Etisalat, MTS India, Loop Mobile, Reliance Mobile, Idea Cellular, Vodafone, BSNL, MTNL, Telenor, Virgin can all now compare data from each and every circle and each live operator to understand demographic spread, handset usage and analysis as well as detailed psychographic analysis of the Indian mobile consumer.

The Indian mobile industry will be able to plan better based on the results from this study, which is now planned to occur each year. A large majority of mobile operators have expressed keen interest in the results of the study.

By using the IndiaMobile 2009 results, Mobile Operators will be able to further mould the study to better suit their needs from 2010 onwards.

This study will be the de-facto benchmark for Mobile Usage in India, given the thorough nature of the research, the sheer size of the sample and the level of interest from the Mobile Eco-System in utilising the results from this study.

For More information, please write to Audrey [at] WirelessFederation.com for your free copy of the headline results.

Tagged with: Aircel • Airtel • Audrey • BSNL • consumer • DoCoMo • Etisalat • Idea • India • IndiaMobile • Indicom • Loop • MTNL • MTS • operators • Reliance • Survey • Tata • Telenor • Virgin • Vodafone • Wireless • WirelessFederation

TATA and BSNL enter Network Sharing deal (India)

On 10.02.09, In Mobile, By Editor

Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), India’s fastest-growing pan India telecom service provider, today announced the signing of a landmark ‘Master Services Agreement for Passive Infrastructure Sharing’ with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).

Becoming the first Indian private telecom operator to enter into an agreement of this nature. The agreement which is valid for 15 years will be applicable to both Tata Teleservices Limited and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited in all of India’s 22 telecom Circles.

“This is a moment of pride for us, as we have become the first private telecom operator to enter into such a strategically important agreement with BSNL, one that will allow us to expand our telecom footprint across the country much more quickly,” Mr Madhav Joshi, President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Tata Teleservices Limited, said.

The agreement comes at a very strategic time for Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited (TTML), as both companies have been aggressively expanding their network presence on the CDMA side with Tata Indicom, while also rolling out GSM services under the TATA DOCOMO brand name. “In the short space of just three months, we have already rolled out our GSM services in nine Circles—Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Orissa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh and Haryana,” Mr AG Rao, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Teleservices Limited, said. “This agreement has the potential to not just speed up our network expansion and rollout process, but would also have a substantial impact in terms of reduced costs,” he added.

Under the terms of the agreement, TTSL and TTML will have access to thousands of BSNL towers all across the country.

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Diet-SMS: Tata Docomo launches pay-per-character billing (India)

On 09.16.09, In Mobile, By Editor

This is a novel concept, instead of billing for a text message of 160 characters like most mobile operators, Indian mobile operator Tata Docomo has just launched a short messaging service, called Diet-SMS, which enables customers to pay on a per-character basis.

“The cost of any Diet-SMS will be only one paise per character used (100 paise= 1 rupee), thereby providing complete value to customers. ”

Deepak Gulati, President Tata Docomo said in a statement – “We broke the per-minute pricing paradigm for voice calls when we launched our services. With Diet-SMS, we are doing it again, this time on the SMS front.”

Tata Docomo is a frontrunner in the pay-per-use business model in the Indian mobile telephony segment. It will not charge for space between words!!

Tata Docomo has launched services in eight telecom circles and a countrywide rollout is expected to be completed this year.

“In all of the eight circles where we have launched our GSM services, we made the promise of introducing path-breaking innovative products and services, and never-before tariff options. Diet-SMS is another way of fulfilling that promise,” said Tata Docomo president Deepak Gulati.

Tagged with: Billing • Deepak Gulati • DoCoMo • GSM • India • Pricing • Tariff • Tata

EMobile to roll-out LTE services in 2010 (Japan)

On 09.13.09, In Mobile, By Editor

EMobile is reportedly planning to roll-out 3.9G LTE services in 2010 and upgrade this to 4G LTE services in 2012. The company rolled-out HSPA+ services in July’09 and provides mobile download speeds of up to 21 Mbps and upload speeds of 5.8 Mbps.The telco has a 26.9% share on the 3G mobile data market in Japan, following to this is Softbank Mobile (33.3%) and NTT Docomo (27%).COO Eric Gan said the company expects to break-even by the end of this year.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: EMobile is reportedly planning to roll-out 3.9G LTE services in 2010 and upgrade this to 4G LTE services in 2012. The company rolled-out HSPA+ services in July’09 and provides mobile download speeds of up to 21 Mbps and upload speeds of 5.8 Mbps. The telco has a 26.9% share on the 3G mobile data market in Japan, following to this is Softbank Mobile (33.3%) and NTT Docomo (27%). COO Eric Gan said the company expects to break-even by the end of 2009.

Tagged with: DoCoMo • eMobile • Eric Gan • Japan • mobile data market • Softbank

Inkk Mobile in talks with Vodafone to offer 3G services (Fiji)

On 05.27.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Inkk Mobile, the Fijian MVNO, is in talks with Vodafone Fiji to offer 3G services to its subscribers. Although the service at present is only offered to Vodafone’s postpaid subscribers, Inkk hopes to offer the service to its pre-pay subscribers as it looks to make itself ‘the Fijians’ choice’, says Inkk Chief Executive Paul O’Neile.
The Inkk CEO is confident that ‘It will happen in the future,’ as the MVNO recently posted a solid subscriber base of 250,000.
‘The second phase is to provide data services. There has been a lot of misconception about Inkk being Vodafone … We are a separate entity but Inkk is using Vodafone’s network .. it is much cheaper because we don’t have to invest into all the infrastructure,’ he said.

Tagged with: Charges • Cingular • DoCoMo • Enforta • Free Airtime • GSM • LookatmeTV • Nokia • Palm Inc • RIMM BlackBerry • SRR

Vodafone Fiji slashes SMS tariffs for prepaid subscribers

On 05.18.09, In Mobile, By Editor

Vodafone Fiji has announced new SMS charges for its prepaid subscribers. The on-net tariff has been slashed to FJD 0.15/SMS compared to FJD 0.20 previously. Vodafone will also continue to offer FJD 0.05 on-net promotional text offer from 00:00 to 5:00 daily.

Tagged with: DoCoMo • Federal Anti-Monopoly Service • Free Airtime • iPhone Application • Nokia • Nokia Siemen Network • Vertu Phones