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FOMA 700i-Series Webcast 2 Feb 2005

NTT DoCoMo have announced a live webcast on their IR website focusing on the new 700i-series handsets. The webcast will run Wednesday, 2 February 2005, at 17:45 JST. The presenter will be Kiyohito Nagata, VP and Managing Director of the Product Department; the title is: FOMA 700i-series Presentation. These new handsets are significant as they are expected to be smaller, lighter and less expensive than its current line-up of 3G phones thanks to some features being left out while retaining key 3G functions. Here are the webcast timings in other locations, courtesy of Time & Date.com.

DoCoMo's 3Q Results Webcast

NTT DoCoMo held an analysts meeting to annouce financial results for 3QFY2004 on 28 January. Some interesting points [PDF] include Big D’s plan to introduce a new line of low-budget FOMA 3G phones later in 2005. The “70X-series” includes a PDA-style dual-mode unit by Motorola and is based on a 2005 roadmap for cutting procurement costs by sourcing handsets from foreign vendors.

NEC Gears up for 3G Infrastructure Construction in China

NEC Corporation and NEC Telecommunications (China) announced that it has commenced production of 3rd Generation mobile radio base stations (Node-B) at one of the production site of NEC Telecommunications (China). The first lot of the products has been delivered in January 2005 to Europe and the plant is ready for manufacturing Node-Bs for China. The production base procures major core pre-product modules, such as channel coding cards and line cards, from NEC’s major manufacturing sites in Japan (NEC Saitama Ltd. and NEC Wireless Networks Ltd.), and other general parts such as power modules and racks from local vendors.

Vodafone K.K. 3Q '04 Fiscal Report

VODAFONE K.K. has announced its results for the first nine months of fiscal 2004. Consolidated operating revenue for the nine-month period ended 31 December 2004 was 1,102.8 billion yen, marking a 14.4% decline compared to the same period of fiscal 2003, due mainly to the exclusion of the fixed line telecommunication business in the second half of fiscal 2003. Total revenue for the mobile business declined by 3.4% compared to the same period of the previous year. The full year forecast for fiscal 2004 remains unchanged.

Solar-Powered Wireless Testing

Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. began running an experimental ZigBee-based sensor network in Japan’s western port city of Kobe on Monday, the company said the same day. The company has installed a network of five solar battery-powered wireless terminals on streetlights and 15 terminals in the ceiling of a shopping mall in the city to test the networking capabilities of ZigBee technology, said Naomi Takeuchi, an Oki spokeswoman. ZigBee is a wireless system based on the 802.15.4 standard approved by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

NEC Accelerates Sales of Point-to-point Wireless Access System

NEC Corporation announced today that the sales of its point-to-point wireless access system “PASOLINK” recorded over 200 thousand system in total for the global market. NEC launched its first PASOLINK product in the mid 1980s, supplying 18GHz PASOLINK systems to a leading telecom operator in UK. Since then, business has expanded to a worldwide scale. Recently, due to the rapid expansion of mobile networks, many operators deploy PASOLINK to connect radio base stations to speedily facilitate rapid and simple installation of mobile infrastructure. Sales of NEC’s PASOLINK exceeded 50,000 units in FY 2000, 110,000 units up to the beginning of FY2003.