Japan

Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) has revised its capital expenditure forecast for the year ended March 31 2009 up 1.4% to JPY2.15trn (US$22bn) but looks to set... 2008-11-07

Mobile handset manufacturer, Sony Ericsson, has announced its plans to offer an unlimited music download service with Norway's Telenor set to become the first company to offer... 2008-09-24

Softbank Mobile, Japan's third largest operator, has placed an order with NEC Corp to supply the world's first IP Multimedia Subsystem-based femtocell system, ready for commercial... 2008-09-23

KDDI, Japan's second-ranked mobile operator, has expressed concern that sales of its mobile handset unit have fallen by up to 30% this summer. The operator also announced it expected... 2008-09-18

NTT DoCoMo, Japan's mobile market leader, has awarded a network evolved packet core (EPC) system contract to NEC. The network will support the operator's super 3G next generation... 2008-09-09

Matsushita Electric Industrial and Secom, a securities company, are among a group of companies looking to offer WiMAX services in Japan from spring 2009, according to the Nikkei.... 2008-08-21

Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) has signed a partnership agreement with global enterprise mobile developer iPass . Under the terms of the agreement, iPass will provide 3G mobile... 2008-08-14

ZTE, the Chinese telecoms equipment manufacturer, has signed an agreement with local mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), Japan Communications for the provision of W-CDMA... 2008-07-30

Japan's largest mobile communications operator, NTT DoCoMo, is looking to expand overseas in order to diversify its revenue streams and growth opportunities in the face of increasing... 2008-06-20

Amid the falling market shares of their respective operations, leading mobile service providers, South Korea's KTF and Japan's NTT DoCoMo, are to jointly procure a 3G handset model... 2008-05-29