Japan's telecom regulator plans to award licenses for high-speed wireless Internet to Carlyle-controlled handyphone firm Willcom Inc. and a consortium backed by cellphone giant KDDI Corp., according to the Nikkei business daily. The two companies have been battling it out with mobile operators NTT DoCoMo Inc....
KDDI, the second-ranked Japanese cellular operator, launched a new tariff system that envisages call charges lowered by 20 percent-30 percent and higher handset prices. AFP warned that if KDDI's rivals follow a similar path, the departure of deflation from the Japanese economy could be delayed further....
Tokyo, Japan, Aug 1, 2007 - JCN Newswire - KDDI is pleased to announce that KDDI 'Global Powered Ethernet', a data service for commercial customers, will expand to include Korea from August.
Tokyo, June 17, 2008 - JCN Newswire - Jibun Bank Corporation, a joint venture between KDDI and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, is pleased to announce that it obtained a banking license on June 17, 2008.
Tokyo, Japan, Sept 4, 2007 - JCN Newswire - KDDI (TSE: 9433), Japan's only comprehensive communications service provider from fixed to mobile, has published its Annual Report to Shareholders for the year ended March 31, 2007. To achieve its medium-term target represented by "Challenge 2010", KDDI aims to provide unparalleled...
The CDMA Development Group CDG has congratulated KDDI for signing up more new users than their rivals since Japan's mobile number portability MNP rules took effect on October 24, 2006. Of the more than one million subscribers who changed their service provider between October 24, 2006...
Tokyo, Japan, July 18, 2007 - JCN Newswire - KDDI and Okinawa Cellular are pleased to announce the July 20 addition of international data roaming services to voice roaming services in Indonesia for users of GLOBAL PASSPORT, the international roaming service offered by KDDI that enables au mobile handsets used...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c59487) has announced the addition of IE Market Research Corp's: KDDI Corporation: Competitor Insight 2007 to their offering.
TOKYO AFP — For those who relish looking back on the small, often inconsequential details of their lives, a Japanese company has come up with a "Big Brother" mobile network that makes up where human memory fails. Japan's number two telecom operator KDDI Corp has said Monday that it...
KDDI will purchase Tokyo Electric Power's fiber-optic business by January 1 to compete with leading company NTT. To fund the deal, KDDI will allocate 145,000 shares by this year's end. The shares are worth $393 million. This would propel KDDI to be the foKDDI will purchase Tokyo Electric Power's fiber-optic...
Tokyo, Japan, Aug 30, 2006 - JCN Newswire - KDDI (TSE: 9433) has published its Annual Report to Shareholders for the year ended March 31, 2006. In the Presidents message to Shareholders, President Tadashi Onodera is pleased to report that KDDI's goals continue to expand while the company cultivates...
Tokyo, Japan, Apr 27, 2007 - JCN Newswire - KDDI Corporation and Mitsubishi-Tokyo-UFJ Bank jointly established the Mobile Net Bank Development Corporation in May, 2006 in preparation for the two companies to launch a mobile 'New Bank'. The Development Corporation has since been formalizing the business plan, finalizing products...
TOKYO AFP — Japanese mobile operator KDDI have unveiled plans to let users find their way to shops and restaurants by looking at 3-D satellite images on their cellphones. The service, to be launched at the end of April, is an updated version of its already popular "EZ Navi-Walk"...
Japan's second-largest telecom operator, KDDI, has overtaken market leader NTT DoCoMo in net cellular phone subscription growth in May 2006. This is the first time in the last six months that KDDI has outdone DoCoMo on this score. KDDI's net subscription Japan's second-largest telecom operator, KDDI, has overtaken market leader...
Tokyo, Japan, June 28, 2006 - JCN Newswire - KDDI today signed a service agreement with Vietnam Datacommunication Company ('VDC') of Vietnam to jointly establish IP-VPN infrastructure in Hanoi, the national capital, and in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's largest commercial city. Under the agreement, the two companies also...
Tokyo, Japan, Apr 6, 2006 - JCN Newswire - KDDI Corporation and Tokyo Electric Power Company have today announced a mutual agreement to study the integration of TEPCO's Hikari Network Company's businesses with KDDI.
Tokyo, Japan, Oct 19, 2007 - JCN Newswire - KDDI, in cooperation with QUALCOMM Inc, has completed the development of 'KCP+,' an integrated platform that brings together a range of advanced technologies to enable the latest services. The aim is to substantially boost the cost-competitiveness of handset development, now that...
