DoCoMo Reduces Interconnection Fees
Talks getting cheaper (but not flat rate…yet) with DoCoMo announcing that it is going tocut interconnection fees between its PDCand 3G FOMA services and other carriers.Great! Go here for details.
New MPEG4 Decoder for Mobile Phones
Techno Mathematical Co., Ltd. announced it has successfully developed a H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard video decoding software that applies Digital Media New Algorithm (DMNA). The software will enable video processing on the CPU of the mobile phone alone, and is high-speed and suited to embedded solutions. TMC will begin to license the technology this month
Sony Ericsson Licenses HI Corp's 3D Engine
HI Corporation has signed a licensing agreement for its 3D rendering engine “Mascot Capsule Engine Micro3D Edition with Sony Ericsson Mobile Comm. The first handsets implemented with Micro 3D Edition in accordance with the agreement are planned for launch in Q2 2004.
DoCoMo Far EasTone 3G Taiwan Launch
DoCoMo is pushing its blend of W-CDMA into Taiwan with Far EasTone Telecommunications Co., according to a press release today, with Big-D tightening up EasTone’s network from next week to September this year.
Vodafone K.K. Offers Global Mail, Japan's First International MMS Service
Vodafone K.K. announced that from March 18 it will offer Global Mail, a new service that enables customers to exchange multimedia messages (MMS) such as Sha-mail and Movie Sha-mail with overseas subscribers who have compatible handsets on participating networks.
Mobile Phone Shipments Drop 22%
Hate to say we told you so – but we did – in the ‘Japan Wireless 2004 Preview’ WWJ video interview with IDC’s Mitch Kimura. Shipments by Japanese mobile phone makers in January dropped 22.3% from a year earlier to 2.98 million phones and were also well down on December’s 4.71 million units, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association said in a monthly report yesterday.