Japanese telecommunications company, eAccess, may be planning to launch 4G LTE services in the country by next year, as suggested by reports, making it the second operator in the country to do so. Currently, NTT DoCoMo is the only mobile operator to offer LTE services in the country which it launched last year.

Further, in order to promote its LTE services DoCoMO also introduced its new range of ‘NEXT’ smartphones capable of offering mobile data communication at a speed of 75Mbps via its 4G network.

Sources suggest that while the LTE applications currently offered by DoCoMo are limited to data only, the operator has hinted at plans to introduce voice-over LTE services by March next year.

 

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Dr. Sachio Semmoto who resigned yesterday from his post because of his health conditions but the Telecom’s board will not force him into retirement in Japan.

According to the spokesperson for Tokyo-based eAccess, the company could confirm Dr Semmoto would remain as representative director and chairman of eAccess, as well as its mobile subsidiary eMobile.

According to the company, it would not replace Dr Semmoto because of the uncertainty the company faced due to the Government’s ultrafast broadband initiative.

Dr Semmoto holds a visiting professorship at Canterbury University’s management department; however staff at the department was unable to confirm whether he remained actively engaged with the university.

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ASIA : The 3GSM World Congress Asia – the fastest growing mobile communications event in the region – will bring together a host of industry leaders and personalities from across Asia’s booming mobile industry.

The mobile operator CEOs speaking at the 2006 event, which will be held in Singapore between October 16th and October 20th, include Sunil Mittal from Bharti Televentures, Dr Young-Chu Cho from KTF, Naguib Sawiris from Orascom, Lee Hsien Yang from SingTel Group, Dato Abdul Wahid Omar from Telekom Malaysia, Arve Johansen from Telenor, Sol Trujillo from Telstra and Alexander Izosimov from VimpelCom. Produced by the GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade association for the mobile industry, the 3GSM World Congress Asia will also feature top executives from other mobile-related industries, such as Alejandro Zubillaga, Executive Vice President Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group, and Dr Sachio Semmoto, Founder and CEO of eAccess.

“For this year’s 3GSM Congress in Asia, we have assembled a top-class, yet diverse, line-up of speakers that will pinpoint the key trends in the region’s dynamic and complex market for mobile communications,” said Bill Gajda, the chief marketing officer of the GSM Association. “The Congress is the only event in Asia to attract the top ranking executives from the region’s operator community.”

The Congress presentations, revolving around the central theme of ‘Risk and Reward’, will cover topics ranging from new business models for mobile operators, to the role of China, universal access in emerging markets, the mobile boom in India, mobile virtual network operators and infotainment and content. The 2006 event will also host the GSMA Members Forum – the only annual meeting open to the entire GSMA membership.

This year’s Congress also sees the introduction of the GSMA’s “Asia Mobile Innovation Awards.” These awards are designed to support innovation in the Asian mobile industry by bringing together start-up companies, industry investors, mobile operators and vendors

Source- http://www.3g.co.uk

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