(keitai-l) Ntt DoCoMo 3.5G FOMA coming

From: Giovanni Bertani <giovanni.bertani_at_exsense.com>
Date: 10/08/03
Message-Id: <63359316-F971-11D7-BF0E-003065BA6D3A@exsense.com>
Take a Look:

http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/15935.html


Summary in English  from dottocomu:

(1) FOMA downlink speeds will rise to 2Mbps average, 14Mbps peak in 
2005.

(2) DoCoMo's cellphone worldview is "80% data, 20% voice". DoCoMo has 
already reached this stage and thinks the world will ultimately follow 
suit. It also believes that machine to machine communications are a big 
part of the future (this is something the company has been talking 
about for a while).

(3) FOMA functions are set to broaden dramatically. One of the 
presentation slides lists noncontact ICs, RFID, 2D barcode, credit card 
and infra-red data transfer as future functions to enable mobile 
e-commerce. All have been mentioned before, but from the slide it looks 
like the plan is to include all of them as standard in all phones. (?) 
GPS navigation, remote monitoring, and terrestrial digital TV tuners 
also look likely to be included.
Received on Wed Oct 8 12:25:52 2003