NTT DoCoMo to launch LTE services by end next year

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> Date: December 5, 2009 12:48:34 AM EST
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] NTT DoCoMo to launch LTE services by end next  
> year

> [Note:  This item comes from friend Esme Vos.  DLH]
>
> NTT DoCoMo to launch LTE services by end next year
> Softbank surprises with vision of complementary role WiFi in mobile  
> web
> by Ek Heng, Asia-Pacific Correspondent
> Wed. December 2, 2009
> <http://telecomengine.com/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_5965>
>
> Two of Japan’s telcos shared insights into their strategies for the  
> next generation mobile wireless at the recently completed GSMA Mobil 
> e Asia Congress in November. NTT DoCoMo announced it was launching L 
> ong Term Evolution (LTE) services in Japan without relying on HSPA+  
> as an interim measure. On the other hand, third largest player, Soft 
> bank, revealed it was banking on WiFi to complement LTE to satisfy d 
> ata intensive uses for next generation mobile networks and devices.
>
> NTT DoCoMo’s president, Ryuhi Yamada told delegates at the congress  
> that Japan’s largest telco was investing JPY300 billion (US$3.4 bill 
> ion) to launch LTE services by December 2010. The telco is providing 
>  datacards initially targeting computer users with mobile phones sch 
> eduled for delivery only in 2011. It will initiate coverage in areas 
>  of high demand as an overlay to its existing 3G network.
>
> The telco aims turn off its 2G services in 2012. DoCoMo is banking  
> on video services to boost income and it expects the introduction of  
> LTE platform to lead to increased data traffic from current 42  
> percent to more than 50 percent.
>
> While it was first worldwide to launch 3G WCDMA previously, DoCoMo  
> wll be among early uses of LTE but it will be beaten to the pole  
> position by other telcos with earlier starting date next year.
>
> Softbank grows, CEO sees bigger role for WiFi in the scheme of things
>
> At the mobile congress, Softbank’s CEO Masayoshi Son surprised deleg 
> ates with his vision of the future foreseeing a role for WiFi to com 
> plement mobile networks and devices which he said will not be able t 
> o cope with future data-intensive demand.
>
> Touching on the Japanese experience, he said that 50 percent of data  
> traffic happens from home during peak periods which makes it ideal  
> to harness WiFi technology. He added that 3G and 4G is the way to  
> have blanket coverage but WiFi helps provide a richer experience.  
> Saying that mobile, not the computer, will be the mainstay access  
> the Internet, he declared that Softbank would invest aggressively in  
> LTE but we ‘would need both WiFi and mobile’.
>
> Adding personal insights, he said: “I come from the PC and internet  
> business, so I used to use both all the time. After I got an iPhone, 
>  a year later my PC/internet usage dropped 95 percent.”
>
> The telco recently introduced eight new ‘mobile WiFi handsets’  
> and it also owns a fixed broadband network to supply the backhaul to 
>  home WiFi customers.
>
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