DOCOMO Grants Standard Essential Patent License NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced that it has reached an agreement with electronics manufacturer Lenovo to grant a patent license covering…
From 5G to 6G: Countries Are Off to an Early Start While 5G is still unfolding and far from being ubiquitous, discussions on 6G technology are already ongoing. With new cellular…
NEC to Build Global Innovation Base Near Tokyo NEC Corporation has announced the construction of a global base for innovation near Tokyo.
NTT Docomo and SK Telecom to Collaborate on Advancing 5G and 6G NTT Docomo has agreed with SK Telecom (SKT) to collaborate on the enhancement of their respective smart-life businesses and communications-infrastructure…
Softbank To Stop 3G Services By January 2024 SoftBank Corp. has announced that it would stop providing 3G services on January 31, 2024.
Rebuilding the Future: A Glimpse of How Some ‘Smart Cities’ Will Look in Asia Imagine a one-stop platform to access all government services – from birth records and tax transactions to updating information on…
Rakuten Mobile Leverages 4G and 5G mmWave for Real and Virtual Motorsports Event Rakuten Mobile has successfully conducted a demonstration of motorsports that fused the real and the virtual at the 2022 Inter…
Japan Sets Aside $450 Million Fund for 6G Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is setting aside a $450 billion budget for fiscal 2023 to fund research…
KDDI to Offer Starlink to Enterprise and Civil Government Clients KDDI announced it will begin offering Starlink connectivity to its enterprise and civil government customers later this year as part…
BBIX Inks Partnership Deal With NEC BBIX, a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. that operates an Internet Exchange (IX) business, has entered into a partnership agreement with…
KDDI’s 39 Million Users Hit By Massive Service Outage Almost 40 million mobile users of Japanese second-largest telecom, KDDI, experienced massive outages across the country.
NEC Buys Aspire Technology Japan’s telecom equipment provider NEC has acquired Ireland’s Aspire Technology.