NTT DoCoMo may seek partners in China after the Chinese government issues licenses for high-speed networks to expand in the world’s biggest mobile phone market. One of the standards, called W- CDMA, is the same as the platform adopted by DoCoMo in Japan. “We have to see what kind of technology the operators will use,” Takeshi Natsuno, senior vice president of multimedia services at Tokyo-based DoCoMo, said in an interview broadcast today. “After that, we can decide what kind of strategic alliance we’re going to make.”

China hasn’t announced a timetable for issuing 3G licenses. “At least one of the Chinese operators will use W-CDMA, but we don’t know who,” said Natsuno, who oversaw the introduction of i-mode in 1999. “As a worldwide alliance, having the same technology platform is very important.” Continue>>

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