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Retail Asia03/06/2019
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The Japanese government has passed a new bill aimed at reducing mobile prices for consumers and stimulating competition in the mobile market. The new bill includes provisions banning operators from offering bundled device and mobile plans under a single price package. The new law, which is due to take effect as early as the third […]

Retail Asia29/04/2019
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Japan’s telecom ministry has allocated 5G mobile spectrum to incumbent operators NTT Docomo, KDDI, and Softbank, as well as local e-commerce giant Rakuten. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has approved the allocation of spectrum after determining that the companies’ applications met the conditions of the allocation. The four companies plan to invest heavily in 5G, spending a […]

Retail Asia10/04/2019
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Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings (HTHKH) has arranged to buy out Japan’s NTT Docomo‘s share of its mobile businesses for $60 million. Under the agreement, HTHKH will acquire Docomo’s 24.1% interest in Hutchison Telephone Company Limited (HTCL) and its 24.1% stake in Hutchison 3G Hong Kong Holdings (H3GHK), making both companies wholly-owned subsidiaries. In an announcement, […]

Retail Asia04/04/2019
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Japan’s NTT Docomo has arranged with partners in the US, Israel and Japan to collaborate on 5G trials in Guam, with the aim of verifying 5G-compatible systems and equipment for business solutions. Under the collaboration, NTT Docomo will provide the 5G test network, while solution partners will provide 5G-based products and services for use by […]

Retail Asia18/10/2018
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Japanese mobile giant NTT Docomo, through its subsidiary NTT Docomo Ventures, has invested in QD Laser for an undisclosed amount. QD Laser – which was founded in 2006 as an offshoot of Fujitsu Ltd with funding from Mitsui Ventures – develops and manufactures semiconductor lasers, retinal scanning laser eyewear, and other products based on quantum dot laser […]

Retail Asia11/05/2018
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Japan’s NTT Docomo, parent company NTT and vendor NEC have jointly achieved the first 5G transmission between a 28-GHz base station and a 5G mobile station in a car moving at 305km/hr. The trial also achieved a 1.1Gbps high-speed data transmission to a 5G mobile station moving at 293km/hr as well as fast handover between 5G  base stations and a 5G mobile station […]

Retail Asia06/11/2017
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Japan’s NTT Com has launched a new ultra-low latency connectivity service between the financial markets of Tokyo in Japan and Chicago in the United States. The operator said the JPX-Chicago Co-Location Direct service offers the industry’s lowest latency for connectivity between Japan Exchange Group’s (JPX) colocation centre and the Cermak data center used by Chicago’s financial market. […]

Retail Asia01/08/2017
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Japan’s NTT Communications has launched international data network services in India as part of a push to expand its presence in the market. The services are being provided through NTT Com’s Indian affiliate NTT Communications India Network Services (NTTCINS). NTT Com has also commenced construction of two new data centers in Mumbai and Bangalore through […]

Retail Asia26/07/2017
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Japan’s NTT Communications has launched the nation’s first pilot of embedded SIMs (eSIMs) for connection and remote provisioning for MVNOs. The operator said it has built an environment for remote SIM provisioning on its MVNO platform in Hong Kong supporting both M2M and consumer devices. NTT Com will now launch verification tests in Japan in light of […]

Retail Asia13/06/2017
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Japan’s NTT Corporation, parent company of NTT Communications, is reportedly considering the sale of its African operations and could seek around $800 million for the assets. NTT is evaluating a sale of the African operations it acquired through the takeover of Dimension Data in 2010, three people familiar with the matter. According to the sources […]

Retail Asia03/08/2016
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NTT Com and fellow NTT Group member Dimension Data have teamed up to launch Hong Kong’s first mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) platform. The service will allow MVNOs access to the infrastructure required to deliver 3G and 4G data services in the city. The platform will manage all mobile data connections, policy control, billing and […]

Retail Asia14/07/2016
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Japan’s NTT Communications has launched high-speed internet services for enterprises in Myanmar, starting with the Yangon area. The company has secured a network service license from Myanmar’s Ministry of Transport and Communications, and has started offering the new Digi-Path Premier service in the market. The service provides dedicated, fully managed circuits from 1Mbps to connect […]

Retail Asia14/06/2016
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Japan’s NTT DoCoMo announced it has granted a standards-essential patent license for its wireless technologies to equipment vendor Huawei. The operator has now granted patent licenses to more than 10 companies and plans to pursue more such licensing deals in the future. As a result of its extensive R&D efforts over the past two decades, […]

Retail Asia03/05/2016
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to dominate the cloud infrastructure services market with a 31% worldwide market share, dwarfing the chasing pack, according to new Q1 data from Synergy Research Group. The big three followers – Microsoft, IBM and Google – in aggregate accounted for 22% of the market, while the next 20 top-ranked cloud […]

Retail Asia23/07/2015
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NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group, announced today that it will begin operating prepaid SIM card vending machines for foreign visitors to Japan at Narita International Airport from July 24. The prepaid SIM vending machines, the first to be installed at Narita International Airport, will […]


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