The information that they are going to release is going to be Japanese only.
They also have a reason for this on their website which made me laugh....
From the website:
Note: Please understand that as the proposed interface is based on the PDC
network in Japan, the information to be posted on the website will be
available only in Japanese.
Regards
Manish
www.imodeindia.com
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From: "Kyle Barrow" <kyle@X-9.com>
To: "'KEITAI-L'" <KEITAI-L@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:59 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) FYI: DoCoMo To Open Up I-Mode Network To Other ISPs In
December
>
> >From the morning Nikkei:
>
> DoCoMo To Open Up I-Mode Network To Other ISPs In December
>
> TOKYO (Nikkei)--NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437) has decided to open its i-mode
> Internet-compatible cellular phone network to other Internet service
> providers in December, months ahead of an earlier target, company
> sources said Wednesday.
>
> Intended to silence criticism of the firm's market dominance, the move
> will pave the way for Japanese ISPs to start offering news content as
> well as e-mail and online banking services to users of Net-compatible
> cell phones.
>
> President Keiji Tachikawa previously announced that the firm would open
> up its network in spring 2003.
>
> DoCoMo will post the specifications and procedures by which other ISPs
> can connect to the i-mode network on its Web site this weekend. It is
> spending 7-8 billion yen to develop the exchanger needed for such
> connections. The exchanger is to be installed in December.
>
> After about three months of test runs and content preparations, other
> ISPs should be able to start their own services as early as the second
> half of 2003.
>
> I-mode subscribers can now access about 2,400 DoCoMo-approved Web sites
> through the i-menu portal. Once the network is opened, other major ISPs,
> including Nifty Corp. and NEC Corp.'s (6701) Biglobe, will be able to
> provide their services through their own portals. Even the largest of
> these ISPs has only an estimated 5 million subscribers, making the
> i-mode network's more than 30 million subscribers an attractive market
> for these entrants, which will be free to set their own fee schedules
> for their services.
>
>
> Kyle
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Received on Fri Jan 25 10:12:35 2002