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J-PHONE News of 1/24/2006
  Vodafone Japan Mobile Phone Users Up Net 125,200 Oct-Dec
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
  Summary The Japanese unit of UK mobile phone firm Vodafone Group said Tuesday it added a net 125,200 subscribers to its mobile phone service in the October-December quarter. Vodafone K.K. had about 15.1 million users as of the end of December, the company said. "Vodafone K.K. benefited from the introduction of new flat-rate tariff plans and a steady improvement in the range and quality of its third-generation handsets," the company said in a statement. Subscribers to its third-generation cellular phone service rose a net 564,600 during the quarter to about 2.3 million (Dow Jones)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 1/9/2006
  Vodafone to expand roaming service
Monday, January 9, 2006
  Summary Vodafone K.K. said Tuesday it will add seven countries to its international roaming service Jan. 19, expanding its mobile-phone network to 137 countries and regions. The new service areas for its third-generation mobile phones are Bhutan, Zambia, Cameroon, Algeria, Anguilla, Saint Christopher and Nevis, and the Faeroe Islands. Vodafone will have business alliances with a total of 188 telecommunications operators for its global roaming-service network. (Japan Times)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/5/2005
  Vodafone adds 57k subscribers in November
Monday, December 5, 2005
  Summary Vodafone KK, the Japanese unit of the UK’s Vodafone Group PLC, said its mobile phone subscriber base grew by 57,000 to 15.053 mln in November. It said its 3G mobile phone service subscriber base posted net additions of 186,500 last month, taking the total to 2.08 mln. Its 2G service users declined by a net 129,500. (AFX)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/23/2005
  Vodafone K.K. 3G subscribers surpass 2 million
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
  Summary Vodafone K.K. today announces that as of 21 November 2005 its 3G subscribers exceeded 2 million. The achievement comes approximately 7 months after surpassing the 1 million mark in April 2005 and approximately 3 years after the service launch in December 2002. (Vodafone.jp)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/27/2005
  Vodafone Japan expands pre-paid mobile service
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
  Summary Vodafone K.K., the Japan unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc , said on Monday it will start a new service next month that will make it easier for users to buy more minutes for their pre-paid phones. Pre-paid phones require customers to buy minutes in advance instead of subscribing to a monthly service. The company said users would be able to load up via cashing machines or Internet banking sites in addition to buying pre-paid cards or accessing Vodafone’s Web site. Vodafone, which is also introducing a new pre-paid phone by Sharp Corp. , plans to start the new service on Oct. 17. Vodafone’s competitors led by NTT DoCoMo Inc. are moving away from pre-paid phones amid reports about fraud using the phones. The company said it was re-verifying user identification through the end of October to prevent the criminal use of the phones. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/20/2005
  Vodafone K.K. to launch Vodafone live! FeliCa
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
  Summary Vodafone K.K. today announces that it is scheduled to launch a new service called Vodafone live! FeliCa in early November to coincide with the sale of the Mobile FeliCa smartcard equipped Vodafone 703SHf handset by Sharp. With the service launch, customers will be able to use their handsets in a variety of ways that are relevant to their daily lives, such as for transportation, electronic money and point services. Vodafone live! FeliCa is a service that lets customers enjoy highly convenient services for their daily lives by using Vodafone live! FeliCa compatible V-applis (IC applis) installed in Mobile FeliCa smartcard equipped handsets. A new Vodafone live! FeliCa menu will be added to the Vodafone live! mobile internet menu list so customers can easily search for and download IC applis. The service will also feature enhancements only possible with mobile handsets, such as transaction histories for various services and point balance checking, as well as online recharges and support for a variety of procedures done over the network. Vodafone live! FeliCa is an easy-to-understand service with security functions for when a handset is lost. To coincide with the launch of Vodafone live! FeliCa, Vodafone K.K. has come to an agreement with NTT DoCoMo, Inc. to use the Mobile Wallet (Osaifu-Keitai) brand and logo to promote and expand the mobile commerce market. (Vodafone KK)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/16/2005
  Vodafone Japan preps for HSDPA
Friday, September 16, 2005
  Summary VODAFONE K.K., the struggling Japanese unit of mobile phone giant Vodafone, is preparing a new super-charged data service as it revs up spending on its network. The company became Japan’s first to start testing out a high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) service late last year, Vodafone K.K chief technology officer John Thompson said. "We have not said anything about when we start," he said. "We are preparing our networks in Tokyo now. The test is going well." HSDPA is a next-step technology developed for use over networks based on WCDMA, the world’s most popular third-generation (3G) mobile standard. It effectively turbocharges WCDMA networks, allowing for data transfers at up to 14Mbps, or several times faster than existing capabilities, and providing a critical boost for such data-intensive services as music downloads and video streaming. (Australian IT)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/15/2005
  "24: Conspiracy" - Mini videos for mobile available on Vodafone KK from 3 October
Thursday, September 15, 2005
  Summary Vodafone K.K. announces today that on 3 October 2005 it will launch 24: Conspiracy, a new made-for-mobile drama inspired by the blockbuster Fox TV series 24, on Vodafone live! for 3G. Coinciding with the fourth season of the 24 TV series, 24: Conspiracy consists of 24 one-minute episodes that take place at CTU Washington D.C. to form a parallel story made specifically for mobile (as video clip content), with a completely original cast. Vodafone Group operating companies have already launched 24: Conspiracy in 7 countries, including the US and UK. For no information charge, Vodafone K.K. will exclusively offer 4 consecutive installments of 24: Conspiracy every Monday from 3 October to 7 November on Vodafone live! for 3G, bringing the made-for-mobile 24 storyline to Japan for the first time. Customers will also be able to download CTU extension phone ringtones and original wallpapers. (Vodafone KK)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/7/2005
  Vodafone K.K. Unveils 903T and 803T 3G Handsets
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
  Summary Vodafone K.K. announced that from early October 2005 it will offer the Vodafone 903T 3G handset by Toshiba, the worlds first mobile handset capable of network-assisted GPS navigation both in Japan and abroad. From mid-October it will also market the Vodafone 803T all-in-one music player 3G handset by Toshiba, which features easy access to music files and background play when using mail or the web. (3G.co.uk)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/1/2005
  Vodafone K.K. launches Music Search service
Thursday, September 1, 2005
  Summary Vodafone K.K. announces today that on 1 September 2005 it launched a new Music Search service on its mobile internet service Vodafone live!, so customers can find Chaku-Uta, Chaku-Uta Long Version, and Chaku-Uta Full music tracks faster and with greater ease. For the price of communication charges alone, the Music Search service lets customers search Chaku-Uta and Chaku-Uta Full music track content by artist name. After inputting the artists name (even partially) in either kanji, hiragana, alphabetical letters or numbers, Vodafone live! official artist song content is searched according to a given keyword and links to artist information pages are displayed. Artist information pages give a list of content sites that offer the artists tracks so customers can quickly download the tracks they want, and obtain related information on live performances and upcoming events. Content is searched according to the music tracks that can be downloaded by a customers Vodafone K.K. handset. (Noticias.info)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/27/2005
  Vodafone’s Sarin Weighs Changes To Japan Business
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
  Summary Wireless giant Vodafone added 4.1 million new users--that’s the population of New Zealand--in its strongest quarter for the past five years. The company now boasts 165 million subscribers across the globe, its numbers bolstered by burgeoning markets such as Spain, Italy and Romania. Now it will focus its efforts on improving its Japanese business, according to Chief Executive Arun Sarin. Average revenue per customer have slipped in that country, as well as in the U.K. and Germany. Sarin’s not averse to the idea of selling underperforming operations in Japan, where Vodafone languishes behind NTT DoCoMo (nyse: DCM - news - people )and KDDI: "We’re not married to any asset. If an asset loses its usefulness to uswe’d be willing to look at (a disposal)," he was quoted as saying by AFX News. (Forbes)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/13/2005
  Vodafone Japan opens door to wholesale deals
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
  Summary Vodafone K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of UK-based mobile phone giant Vodafone Group Plc, said on Tuesday it had created a separate unit to focus on winning wholesale deals in the cut-throat market. Bill Morrow, the president of Japan’s third-largest mobile phone group, told a news conference he believed there might be niche companies that would be interested in offering services over its network as mobile virtual network operators (MVNO). "The government has asked that we see a little bit more competition here in Japan, and we think this contributes," Morrow said. "There is a value that can be brought to the industry, local economy and specific customers by having certain MVNOs or service providers come into play." As an example of the kind of MVNO deals possible, Morrow mentioned plans by theme park and media company Walt Disney Co. to launch Disney-branded mobile services in the United States and Europe. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/12/2005
  Struggling Vodafone in Japan promises turnaround
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
  Summary The new management team at Vodafone’s Japan unit acknowledged Tuesday that the British mobile company was struggling here but promised a turnaround. Bill Morrow, who became president of Vodafone K.K. in April, said the company will focus on the niche audience of teens and people in their 20s, and offer new services in mobile messaging, an area seen as the carrier’s strength. "We’re going to serve a small community of people," he told reporters at a Tokyo hotel. "We have a new way of thinking." But Morrow declined to give details, saying he was worried rivals may imitate his company’s ideas. The gap with the industry’s No. 2 _ KDDI Corp. _ is widening, and quick action is needed before number portability arrives in Japan next year, allowing people to keep their mobile phone numbers while switching companies, said Vodafone K.K. Chairman Shiro Tsuda, who was headhunted from Japan’s No. 1 mobile company NTT DoCoMo to steer a revival. Vodafone users fell to 14.97 million people last month from 15.11 million a year ago. During the same period, industry leader NTT DoCoMo users climbed to 49.43 million from 46.83 million. Vodafone controls about 17 percent of the Japanese market while NTT DoCoMo has 56 percent and KDDI Corp. trails at about 27 percent. Competition will intensify as newcomers are expected to enter this mobile market so far dominated by three carriers. Morrow said NTT DoCoMo had attracted people with the wallet-phone, a handset used to pay for purchases, while KDDI marketed itself with cell phones offering music downloads. Vodafone had nothing comparable so far, he said. (AP)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/22/2005
  Samsung Says May Provide Phones to Japan’s Vodafone
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
  Summary Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. may supply mobile phones to Vodafone KK, the Japanese unit of Vodafone Group Plc, an executive at the South Korean firm said on Wednesday. "Vodafone is one of our major buyers and it has an affiliated company in Japan...so we may have business opportunities with Vodafone (in Japan)," Daniel Chung, vice president at Samsung’s telecommunication division, told reporters on the sidelines of a conference. If a deal is ceiled, Samsung would be the final mobile manufacturer among the world’s top four cell phone makers to enter the Japanese market, where foreign players have struggled to make ground. Samsung is the world’s third-largest mobile phone maker. Japan’s top mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to offer next-generation phones made by the world’s top manufacturer Nokia, second-ranked Motorola Inc. and the fourth-ranked LG Electronics Inc. later this year and early next year. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/9/2005
  Vodafone Loses More Japan Mobile Users in May
Thursday, June 9, 2005
  Summary Vodafone K.K., the Japan unit of Vodafone Group Plc, reported on Tuesday a fifth straight monthly net loss in customer numbers despite an increase in users of its advanced 3G service. Vodafone, Japan’s third-largest mobile operator, lost 39,900 customers in May, finishing the month with less than 15 million subscribers. KDDI Corp.’s au subsidiary, Japan’s second-largest mobile operator, added 181,900 customers in May, winning a tight race over industry leader NTT DoCoMo Inc., which expanded its user base by 177,500 to 49.25 million. The industry had a total of 87.74 million subscribers in May, up 308,900 from April. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/7/2005
  Vodafone Japan to Raise Spending on Networks to 260 Billion Yen
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
  Summary Vodafone K.K., the Japanese unit of Vodafone Group Plc, will increase spending on high-speed networks this year to improve coverage and services as it tries to keep customers from switching to NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KDDI Corp. Vodafone K.K. plans to spend 260 billion yen ($2.43 billion), mainly on high-speed, or third-generation, networks in the year ending March 31, said Tokyo-based spokesman Matthew Nicholson, confirming a Nihon Keizai report. The company, which buys network equipment from NEC Corp., Nokia Oyj and Ericsson AB, will build 5,400 base stations this year, raising the total by 30 percent. Vodafone Group Plc, the world’s largest mobile phone carrier, is struggling to compete against DoCoMo and KDDI, which together control 97 percent of Japan’s high-speed subscriber market. Vodafone K.K. last year cut its capital investment by a third to 166.7 billion yen. That compares with DoCoMo’s 15.9 percent increase to 696.6 billion yen. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/19/2005
  Now, Vodafone Kk Customers to Access NetFront Mobile Browser
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
  Summary ACCESS Co., Ltd., a global provider of mobile content delivery and internet access technologies, announced the immediate availability of its NetFront for Series 60 702NK edition mobile browser for Vodafone K.K. 702NK (Nokia 6630) smartphone users. Specifically optimised for Symbian OS, NetFront for Series 60 702NK edition mobile browser provides 702NK end users with advanced, full-internet browsing technologies including support for the latest internet standards such as OMA Browsing 2.2, WML, HTML 4.01, and cHTML as well as unique technologies that make mobile internet browsing highly responsive and intuitive. Key among these technologies are Smart-Fit Rendering - a technology reported to render full web pages to fit the screen width of mobile devices, eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling; and Rapid-Render, a rendering technology said to accelerate the presentation of web page data. (Forbes)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/18/2005
  Vodafone Japan President: Tough Operations Conditions To Last For Now
Monday, April 18, 2005
  Summary The Japanese unit of Vodafone Group Plc. is likely to continue facing tough business conditions for the time being, but it will take various measures to remedy the situation, the newly appointed president of Vodafone K.K. said Monday. "I suspect that our current situation is going to continue for a bit longer here," Bill Morrow said, referring to decreases in the firm’s net subscriber numbers in recent months. Morrow was speaking at his first news conference since he took over as president on April 1 in a management shuffle aimed at reviving Vodafone’s ailing business in Japan. He replaced Shiro Tsuda, an ex-NTT DoCoMo Inc. executive, who relinquished the top position after only four months on the job. Tsuda has become the Japanese unit’s executive chairman. (Cellular News)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/9/2005
  Vodafone Japan Loses Customers for Second Month
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
  Summary Vodafone K.K., the Japan unit of Vodafone Group Plc, lost customers for the second straight month in February while larger rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KDDI Corp. showed solid gains, an industry group said on Monday. Vodafone, Japan’s third-largest mobile operator, lost 53,200 customers in February, leaving it with 15.1 million customers, according to the Telecommunications Carriers Association. The company has lagged its rivals in providing attractive content, services and phone functions. Net customer growth is calculated by subtracting customers who left the service from the absolute number of new subscribers. DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, logged the biggest gain with 246,100 new customers as users switched from older services to third-generation (3G) services, which offer high-speed Internet connections. KDDI’s main au (pronounced AY-U) mobile unit, Japan’s second-largest operator, added 183,700 new customers. DoCoMo and au ended the month with a total of 48.3 million and 19.1 million customers, respectively. KDDI’s smaller mobile unit Tu-Ka reverted back to a loss in February after posting customer gains over the previous three months on the popularity of a bare-bones phone. Tu-Ka’s customer base declined by 9,000 to about 3.6 million customers. Japan’s mobile market is almost saturated as about 70 percent of the population owns a cell phone, but customers continue to upgrade to 3G services. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 2/8/2005
  Vodafone shuffles Japanese management as customers desert
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
  Summary (AFP) Vodafone has shaken up the leadership of its Japanese unit, removing a one-time star as its head, as subscribers once again dropped in the face of fierce competition. A statement said Bill Morrow, currently head of Vodafone UK, will become president of Vodafone KK, which keeps falling behind top-ranked Japanese firms NTT DoCoMo and KDDI in the largely saturated market. The Japanese units head Shiro Tsuda, who had been brought in with fanfare last year, will from April 1 become the executive chairman of Vodafone KK, a mostly symbolic role. Vodafone was seen as roping in an industry heavyweight in Tsuda, a former senior executive vice president at NTT DoCoMo who defected to Vodafone after being passed over to be president of Japans top mobile company. But Vodafone KK lost 58,700 subscribers in January, for a total of 15.15 million, after adding only 900 customers in December. NTT DoCoMo meanwhile gained another 184,400 subscribers in January for a national market of 85.78 million users or 56.1% of the market, new data by the Telecommunications Carriers Association showed. Tsuda attributed the decline in subscribers last month to delays in introducing third-generation handsets and in expanding the companys 3G network. (telecomasia.net)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 1/28/2005
  Vodafone shutting down prepaid mobile phones used in fraud
Friday, January 28, 2005
  Summary Vodafone has begun unilaterally terminating services for prepaid mobile phones that have been used in fraudulent billing and other crimes. As the largest prepaid mobile phone service operator in Japan, Vodfaone has received information about 200 such phone numbers and has already canceled several of them. Company officials said most users of prepaid mobile phones in fraudulent cases are unidentifiable. It sent e-mail messages to those mobile phones warning that the phone service will be shut down unless the users provide personal identification documents. Vodafone shut down services for some of those numbers after their users failed to submit personal identification documents after a few weeks. The prepaid mobile phone service, which does not require basic monthly charges, has been popular among such users as parents giving mobile phones to their children and foreigners staying in Japan for a short time. (Kyodo)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/13/2004
  Vodafone pleased with 3G, dismisses Japan worries
Monday, December 13, 2004
  Summary Vodafone is dismissing market concerns that its Japanese business might miss year-end targets, and the mobile phone giant said on Friday it was pleased with early sales of its new range of handsets. Vodafone is banking on new 3G handsets to kickstart sales and allow the unit to meet revenue and handset targets in the year. Vodafone unveiled 10 new 3G handset models in November, offering CD-quality sound, stereo speakers and MP3 players, access to 3D gaming and audio and video streaming. Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile phone company by revenue with about 145 million customers, has said it is targeting 10 million 3G customers by the end of March 2006. Roughly 5 million are expected in Europe and 5 million in Japan. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/4/2004
  Vodafone Japan announces terrestrial TV Mobile Phone
Thursday, November 4, 2004
  Summary Vodafone will release the first mobile phone in Japan capable of receiving terrestrial analog television broadcasts in early December. Vodafone uses the NEC V601N which will have an earpiece with a built-in TV antenna, and its battery will permit about an hour of watching TV. The phone measures approximately 4895 and weighs 119g. The Phone features 2 screens. (i4u news)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/22/2004
  Vodafone Japan to offer seven new 3G phones by Dec
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
  Summary The Japanese unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc said on Wednesday it would launch seven new models of high-speed, 3G phones towards the year-end shopping season to try to lure back users. Sharp and Motorola will each provide two models while NEC, Nokia and Sony Ericsson will each supply one. All seven models are designed to be supplied to Vodafone group companies worldwide, making it possible to reduce procurement costs and offer common services to its customers globally. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/25/2004
  Vodafone to Speed Up Shift to 3G Phone Service: Next Chief
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
  Summary Shiro Tsuda, who is slated to become the next president of Vodafone Holdings KK, has indicated that the Vodafone group will accelerate its shift to 3G services. He believes that Vodafone can reap the benefits of mass production by introducing common personal-computer-card-type data communications terminals to Vodafone group companies around the world. Handsets will likely be slightly modified to suit local needs when they are released in different countries. He also said that the introduction of the number portability system in 2006 would provide a big opportunity to change the power structure of the industry. (NE Asia Online)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/18/2004
  Vodafone Japan to Appoint Former NTT DoCoMo Executive as President
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
  Summary Vodafone announced that Shiro Tsuda, former senior executive vice president of NTT DoCoMo, will be appointed president of the company effective on December 1. "I hope to bring my strength in technology to Vodafone," said Tsuda. Following Darryl E. Green’s resignation from the post in June, Chief Executive of Vodafone’s Asia Pacific Region Brian Clark has served as president of Vodafone KK. According to Vodafone, Tsuda was asked to serve because he is highly familiar with the Japanese telecom industry. (NE Asia Online)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/9/2004
  Vodafone’s Japan unit loses subscribers
Monday, August 9, 2004
  Summary Vodafone Group’s Japanese unit on Friday reported a decline in the number of subscribers to its service for the first time ever, a sign that the mobile operator’s troubles may be deepening. It was also the first time any of Japan’s three main mobile operators has reported a net customer loss, calculated by subtracting the number of cancellations from the number of new customers. Vodafone lost a net 3,100 customers during the month. Company sources said more than 2 percent of its around 15 million customers left in July, an increase compared with recent months. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/27/2004
  Vodafone fails to connect in Japan
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
  Summary Vodafone’s "Happy Time" tariffs have proved to be anything but for the mobile giant. Vodafone Japan posted a Y2,330 drop in average revenues per user in the first quarter, as it also haemorrhaged customers to competitors offering better video phone services using 3G technology. Japanese ARPU continued to decline due to introduction of Happy Time in October last year, the discount, and loss of higher value customers. However, the business had seen an improvement in June and he expected the rate of customer revenue decline to slow in the second half of the year to March 2005 as it introduces new voice tariffs and better 3G-enabled handsets. (Business.telegraph)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/3/2004
  Vodafone Japan Introduces PDC Handset with Optical Zoom Camera
Saturday, July 3, 2004
  Summary Vodafone Japan announced that it will start to sell a new PDC handset which features a camera with an optical zoom function. This is the world’s first mobile embedded camera with an optical zoom function. Combined with a 2.02M-pixel autofocus CCD camera, the V602SH uses a "Swivel Style" design that allows the LCD screen to be reversed 180 degrees. The V602SH is also the first 2G PDC handset in Japan that is capable of playing Chaku-uta vocal ring tones. The handset also features Keitai Karaoke V-kara, which enables customers to enjoy karaoke by connecting to a TV set, and 256K Appli Ver 2 (Java applications), which enables 3D gaming. (NE Asia Online)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/8/2004
  Japan Sees Future in Phones That Give Directions
Saturday, May 8, 2004
  Summary In Japan, where GPS phones can be purchased for less than $200, some media companies and retailers believe the time is ripe to introduce a different kind of service. Cybird is trying out services that allow users to download information onto their phones directly from digital television programs by aiming the phone at the television screen and pressing the appropriate button. The company believes phones with GPS technology could allow users to receive information specific to their location, such as weather forecasts or ads for promotions in local stores. A housewife could receive information about her local supermarket’s daily discounts over the television instead of waiting for the afternoon newspaper. We hope to use push mediums like television to lure users to pull information onto their cell phones. Closely held Navitime Japan provides the software behind KDDI’s "NaviWalk" GPS navigational service, said it is hoping to partner with other companies to offer callers relevant information that could be combined with Navitime maps. While the actual number of consumers with GPS-capable handsets remains low, mobile services companies in Japan expect that to change over the next few years. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/7/2004
  Vodafone to test Flarion wireless gear in Japan
Friday, May 7, 2004
  Summary Vodafone K.K. will test high-speed wireless gear from U.S. start-up Flarion Technologies which supports high-speed Internet and e-mail use on mobile phones, in Tokyo metropolitan areas around mid-year. Flarions technology, known as FLASH-OFDM or orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, has attracted interest in recent months at phone companies in Europe, The Americas, and Asia that are willing to consider an alternative standard. The technology competes with wireless standard being installed worldwide today including high-speed technology used in Europe and a rival standard used in the United States. Flarion does not have a commercial customer yet but its gear is being tested by U.S. provider Nextel Communications,as well as Korean companies SK Telecom , Korea Telecom and Hanaro Telecom. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/23/2004
  Swindlers exploiting holes in Vodafone prepay system
Friday, April 23, 2004
  Summary More than 80 percent of people who attempted to swindle others out of money by billing them for paid Internet site services they had not used gave contact numbers registered to phones on the Vodafone mobile network, a survey conducted by the Tottori Bar Association revealed. "Insufficient identity confirmation at the time prepaid mobile phones were purchased possibly has resulted in their use for criminal activities," an association official said. (Yomiuri)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/22/2004
  Vodafone Japan raises price as promotion falls flat
Thursday, April 22, 2004
  Summary Vodafone Holdings KK, Japan’s third-largest mobile operator, on Monday introduced a series of price changes that effectively raised prices, as its previous industry-low discount plan failed to win customers. Vodafone Japan, a unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc, said it would end its five yen ($0.046) per minute weekend plan as of June, replacing it with a new scheme that gives customers 30 minutes free after the first five minutes, which is charged at the regular rate. The rate would be 10 yen to 60 yen depending on the service package and the time of the call. (Reuters)  
 
   
  Vodafone Japan unveils phone design strategy
Thursday, April 22, 2004
  Summary Struggling Japanese mobile operator Vodafone Holdings KK said on Thursday it will offer a series of specially designed new phones starting in May. The Japan unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc has been seen as lagging behind its rivals in introducing new phones attractive to consumers in one of the world’s most sophisticated mobile markets. In March, Vodafone Japan added only 99,400 new customers. By comparison, NTT DoCoMo Inc , Japan’s dominant mobile operator, added 412,800 customers and KDDI Corp’s main "au" mobile service added 475,700 customers, according to a monthly report by the Telecommunications Carriers Association. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/14/2004
  Japan’s Vodafone KK Sees Subscribers Surpass 15 Million
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
  Summary Vodafone KK of Japan announced that it had more than 15 million subscribers at the end of March 2004. The achievement comes 10 years after offering services in April 1994 (formerly as Tokyo Digital Phone Co, Ltd) and represents an increase of 5 million subscribers approximately two years and 11 months after reaching the 10 million mark in April 2001. In addition, at the end of March 2004 Vodafone KK had more than 3 million subscribers with handsets compatible with Movie Sha-mail, a video messaging service that enables customers to send and receive video clip attachments of up to 10 seconds. The milestone was reached after surpassing the 2 million mark in June 2003, representing an increase of 1 million in approximately nine months. (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
  Vodafone KK to Debut Toshiba’s Handset with TV Tuner Capable of 12-minute Recording
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
  Summary Vodafone KK of Japan will debut Toshiba Corp’s "V401T" mobile phone handset, which incorporates a TV tuner for terrestrial analog broadcasting, by the end of April 2004. External dimensions are 48mm x 95mm x 26mm. It weighs 114g. It displays QVGA-quality TV images at 30 frames per second. The current model "V601N" does not have display capability equal to QVGA. The V401T handset can record TV images for up to 12 minutes, using 24MB of built-in memory, to the 160 x 120-dot-resolution at 5 frames per second. Its TV tuner for terrestrial analog broadcasts also allows users to listen to FM radio. It has a VGA built-in camera. (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/30/2004
  Vodafone terminates exit call
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
  Summary VODAFONES global chief executive Arun Sarin has firmly ended speculation that the worlds biggest mobile company will pull out of the Australian market. There has been speculation that Vodafone was looking to quit its Australian operations, possibly through a $3 billion sale of the business to giant rival Telstra. "Australia, New Zealand and Japan and China Telecom are the nexus of our Asian business. We want to grow in this region. I believe we are moving into a sweet spot with our products over the next couple of years." As No.3 in the crowded Australian market, Vodafone has struggled to stay in touch with market leaders Telstra and Optus. (News.com.au)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/22/2004
  Vodafone KK’s ’Sha-mail’ Video Mail Receives Support for MMS Handsets in HK, Spain
Monday, March 22, 2004
  Summary Vodafone KK of Japan launched on March 18 the "Global Mail" service that allows subscribers to exchange messages including photos and movie files with mobile phone users of cell phone carriers outside of Japan. When people calling from Japan use a handset that supports the company’s "Vodafone live!" service, they can send a "Sha-mail," a photo-attached e-mail, or a "Movie Sha-mail," a movie-attached e-mail to the recipient subscribing to a mobile phone service outside of Japan. (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/11/2004
  Vodafone K.K. Offers Global Mail, Japan’s First International MMS Service
Thursday, March 11, 2004
  Summary Vodafone K.K. announced that from March 18 it will offer Global Mail, a new service that enables customers to exchange multimedia messages (MMS) such as Sha-mail and Movie Sha-mail with overseas subscribers who have compatible handsets on participating networks. With Global Mail, Vodafone live! customers in Japan can send multimedia messages like Sha-mail overseas by directly entering phone numbers (the [1656] Global Mail prefix + country code + other party’s phone number). The service is scheduled to begin with participating networks in Spain (Vodafone Spain) and Hong Kong (Hong Kong CSL). Vodafone K.K. also plans to expand the number of compatible overseas networks in the future. (JapanCorp.Net)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/2/2004
  Vodafone KK Launches 3G Datacard for Japan
Tuesday, March 2, 2004
  Summary Vodafone KK will introduce after late April the VC701SI Vodafone Connect Card, a datacard compatible with its 3G W-CDMA network in Japan. Capable of modem and communication functions, the VC701SI, manufactured by Seiko Instruments, is Vodafone’s first 3G CompactFlash (CF) card data terminal. By inserting the card into notebook PCs, PDAs and other devices, users can access the Internet with Vodafone’s W-CDMA service, which offer up to 384kbps downlink/64kbps uplink packet data transmissions as well as up to 64kbps circuit-switched data transmissions. The W-CDMA network of Vodafone had 99.5% network population coverage as of the end of January 2004. (NEAsia )  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 2/19/2004
  Vodafone supports status quo
Thursday, February 19, 2004
  Summary British mobile phone giant Vodafone Group Plc has expressed its opposition to a telecommunications ministry proposal to allow new entries into the domestic cellphone sector to promote competition, ministry sources said. The parent company of Vodafone KK submitted a letter to the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications calling on the government to maintain the current arrangement of four carriers-NTT DoCoMo Inc., KDDI Corp., Vodafone and the Tu-Ka group. Ministry officials say they are perplexed by the companyfs request to discourage competition because foreign concerns have traditionally called for the opposite. ``Promoting competition is the current trend,ff one official said. ``We can't believe they want us to reverse it.ff (Asahi.com)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 2/7/2004
  Vodafone’s New 3G Mobile Phone May Wipe Out Negative Image of 3G Handsets
Saturday, February 7, 2004
  Summary Vodafone KK of Japan announced on Feb 3 that the company will release its new third-generation (3G) mobile phone named "V801SH" in early April. The new mobile phone was developed by Sharp Corp, which provides Vodafone with more handsets than any other manufacturers. The new phone’s specifications may wipe out negative images of 3G handsets, such as their high power consumption, large size and heavy weight. (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 2/5/2004
  Vodafone Japan posts $12.22 bln sales for April-Dec
Thursday, February 5, 2004
  Summary Vodafone Holdings KK, Japan’s third’s largest mobile phone operator and a unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc, on Wednesday posted sales of 1.29 trillion yen ($12.22 billion) for the April to December period. The company also raised its full-year loss forecast to 114 billion yen from 104 billion yen. It cut its recurring profit forecast to 187 billion yen from 212 billion. It said it expected full-year sales of 1.66 trillion yen compared with its previous expectation of 1.68 trillion. (Forbes)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 2/4/2004
  Vodafone Unveils New 3G Handset with Megapixel Camera
Wednesday, February 4, 2004
  Summary Vodafone K.K. has announced that after early April it will market the V801SH by Sharp, a new Vodafone Global Standard (VGS) 3G handset compatible with Vodafone live! for use both in Japan and abroad. The V801SH is a dual mode handset capable of operating on Vodafone K.K.’s 3GPP-based W-CDMA network in Japan and roaming on GSM networks worldwide. In addition to voice roaming, V801SH customers can enjoy Vodafone live! contents like Sha-mail picture messaging, Movie Sha-mail video messaging and web browsing in the same way abroad as in Japan. The V801SH is capable of sending and receiving mails of up to 200KB. (JapanCorp.Net)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 1/28/2004
  Vodafone’s Japan unit cuts earnings forecast
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
  Summary Vodafone Holdings KK, the Japanese unit of the biggest international mobile phone company, on Wednesday cut its earnings forecast for the current financial year, citing higher spending on marketing to attract more customers and hold on to those it has. (International Herald Tribune)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/19/2003
  Vodafone’s 256K Java: Pricey Eye Candy for Mobiphiles
Friday, December 19, 2003
  Summary It’s been long argued that Japan’s mobile Internet can be divided into two eras: pre- and post-Java. Despite the 100K (or lower) limit imposed on Java applications by all three operators and a low cost of just a couple of hundred yen per download, the mobile application environment has been crucial in boosting usage, packets and profits, particularly at NTT DoCoMo. Java has been cheap for the public - and a moneymaker for the carriers. But a richer Java experience, introduced by Vodafone Japan, is what a high-end segment of the Japanese crowd is looking for. (The Feature)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/9/2003
  Vodafone Japan unit says plans to remain listed
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
  Summary Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd, Japans third-largest wireless carrier, said on Tuesday it planned to maintain its status as a listed entity owned two-thirds by Britains Vodafone Group Plc. Since Vodafone reached an agreement earlier this year to sell Japan Telecoms landline unit to U.S. investment firm Ripplewood Holdings, there has been speculation the British company would eventually make Japan Telecom a wholly owned subsidiary. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/4/2003
  Vodafone Group Strategy Director Says 3G is Just Another Technology, Not Like Service that Counts
Thursday, December 4, 2003
  Summary Vodafone Group Plc of the UK is the world’s largest mobile phone carrier. The company finances telecom carriers in a total of 27 nations, including Germany, Italy, Spain, the US and Japan. Alan Harper, group strategy director, told Nikkei Communications about its 3G mobile phone strategy in Europe and the group’s edge at its headquarters on the outskirts of London. (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/3/2003
  Vodafone CEO says cant rule out Vivendi bid
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
  Summary Arun Sarin, the head of mobile phone titan Vodafone Group Plc, said on Wednesday he could not rule out a bid for Frances Vivendi Universal to clinch control of a prized telecoms joint venture. "This is not our first preference, this is not our second preference.... I cant sit here and say to you that we are willing to rule that option out," Sarin told a briefing at the Foreign Press Association in London. Vivendi shares were propelled higher and traded 2.4 percent stronger at 19.62 euros by 1510 GMT, valuing the company at around 21 billion euros ($25.42 billion). Vodafones stock slipped 0.6 percent to 136.75p. Vodafone, the worlds largest mobile phone company, has won a reputation for aggression since former CEO Chris Gent masterminded a record 180 billion euro hostile takeover of former German ally Mannesmann in 2000 to gain control of key wireless businesses in Germany and Italy. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/1/2003
  Vodafone KK of Japan Striving to Recover from Setback
Monday, December 1, 2003
  Summary Vodafone KK, which has changed its corporate name and the name of its brand from J-Phone to Vodafone, has recently launched a marketing counterattack against its main competitors. Now that its "Sha-mail" service lost its overwhelming power to attract customers, the company is poised to start new mobile information distribution services. The company had a bitter experience in losing subscribers after it reduced the number of the types of the handsets used for its service. Learning a lesson from the experience, it will prepare a wide variety of mobile phones for its third-generation (3G) service by introducing foreign-made handsets. (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/21/2003
  Japan Telecom Expects Red Ink
Friday, November 21, 2003
  Summary Japan Telecom Holdings, which operates Japan’s third-largest mobile phone company, expects to lose money in its current fiscal year as it pays for the sale of its fixed-line division and spends more to attract customers. Japan Telecom Holdings, which is two-thirds owned by the Vodafone Group, said that it would lose 104 billion yen ($955 million) in the year to March 2004, rather than earn 62 billion yen ($569 million) as previously forecast. The loss was primarily attributed to a one-time charge on the sale of its fixed-line business to the American investment group, Ripplewood Holdings. The sale, announced in August, was completed last week. (NY Times)  
 
   
  Vodafone KK: All Quiet on the 3G Front
Friday, November 21, 2003
  Summary Prepare for some grim reading. There wasnt a lot of good news on Vodafones Eastern Front, for the short term at least, arising out of Vodafone K.K.s November 18-announced first-half financials. It is eerily quiet in the Little V machine gun nests out here on the 3G frontier. Vodafone K.K. faces gently sliding ARPU, wilting subscriber uptake and a long haul launch for a fully-fledged rollout of cutting-edge 3G keitai. Japan Telecom Holdings (JTH) stock finished down 15 percent for the day after posting first half earnings, notes CSFB senior telecoms analyst Mark Berman. The market is essentially saying that it has completely lost confidence in both the competitiveness of Vodafone in Japan, and believes further that the current management is more concerned with appeasing parent Vodafone than it is with rewarding minority shareholders, he writes this week. On the other hand, the basis for a big comeback could be on the cards for next summer. [subscription required] (Wireless Watch Japan)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/19/2003
  Vodafone vows to grow in Japan
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
  Summary Vodafone on Tuesday pledged to regain momentum in Japan amid growing market concern it has lost direction in one of the UK-based group’s most strategically important markets. Unveiling its results for the six months ended September - the first half of its fiscal year, Vodafone’s Japanese unit said its share of net cellular subscriber additions fell from 31 per cent in the first quarter to 11 per cent in the second. "The fact that our net subscriber [addition] numbers are so low is a sign that we must work harder," said Darryl Green, president of Vodafone’s Japanese operation. (Financial Times)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/18/2003
  Vodafone unit Japan Telecom expects loss this year
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
  Summary Japan Telecom Holdings Co, owned two-thirds by Britain’s Vodafone, said on Tuesday it fell deep into the red in the six months to September due to a $1.5 billion special loss on the sale of its fixed-line operations. For the full year to March, the company revised down its net forecast to a loss of 104 billion yen ($955.2 million) from the previous estimate of a 62 billion yen profit and reduced its sales forecast to 1.68 trillion yen from 1.87 trillion. "We’ve been saying that 2003 is for building our future and the first half played a big part in that process," Darryl Green, president of the Japanese company’s mobile phone unit, Vodafone KK, told a news conference. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/13/2003
  Vodafone Japan units 3G to be Web-ready in Dec
Thursday, November 13, 2003
  Summary The Japanese unit of Britains Vodafone Group Plc said on Thursday it would introduce an Internet-capable third-generation (3G) handset on December 1, just one year after launching its 3G operation. Vodafone KK, known as J-Phone until September, launched a high-speed 3G service in December 2002, testing the waters for its British parent. But its existing 3G handsets are unable to offer mobile Internet functions, such as Web access and photo messaging, resulting in sluggish user uptake. The new handset, made by Sanyo Electric Co Ltd , is expected to retail for about 30,000 yen ($275.7) or lower, a Vodafone KK spokesman said. The handset works on the 3G network in Japan, and on GSM networks in 81 countries and regions including Britain and the United States. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/10/2003
  Vodafone eyes Japan firms for 3G services
Monday, November 10, 2003
  Summary Vodafone Group Plc has placed orders for millions of next generation mobile phones for its 3G services with Japanese firms, in a snub to the world’s top handset maker Nokia, the Sunday Telegraph reported. The newspaper quoted an unnamed senior executive at the world’s largest mobile phone company by sales as saying Finland-based Nokia did not yet have handheld devices with all the functions Vodafone wanted. It said the official did not name the Japanese firms which would get the orders, but quoted him as saying Vodafone had arranged for "substantial purchases" on the expectation mass market sales would take off. Vodafone was planning to roll out its 3G or third generation services next year, the newspaper said. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/16/2003
  TV Comes To Vodafone Wireless Phones
Thursday, October 16, 2003
  Summary Vodafone K.K. announced it will offer the V601N by NEC, Japans first handset with an embedded analog TV tuner, after early December. The V601Ns most notable feature is its ability to capture still pictures and animation from TV broadcasts as well as access websites related to TV programming with the touch of a button. (3G)  
 
   
  Vodafone to offer ’Bow-Lingual’ dog bark translation service on cellphones
Thursday, October 16, 2003
  Summary "Dog and bone" - Cockney Londoners’ rhyming slang for telephone was never closer to the truth on Thursday after the Japanese mobile phone unit of Britain’s Vodafone announced it would make the "Bow-Lingual" dog bark translator available for mobile phone subscribers. From early December, the Bow-Lingual CONNECT service which converts dog barks into text and graphic illustrations of a dog’s emotions, will be available to users who buy a special smart card for a new handset developed by Japanese electronics giant Sharp, Vodafone KK said in a statement. (Hindustan Times)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/10/2003
  Japan Telecom mulls merger with Vodafone unit
Friday, October 10, 2003
  Summary Vodafone Group Plc’s Japanese telecoms firm said on Thursday it is considering merging with its wireless unit Vodafone KK after the planned sale of its fixed-line unit. British mobile phone giant Vodafone, which owns two-thirds of Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd, agreed in August to sell the fixed-line operation to U.S. investment fund Ripplewood Holdings to concentrate on wireless operation Vodafone KK. The transaction will be Japan’s biggest leveraged buyout. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/3/2003
  Mobile Telecom Carrier J-Phone Changes Name to Vodafone KK
Friday, October 3, 2003
  Summary J-Phone Co, Ltd on October 1 changed its company name to Vodafone KK to become a Vodafone group company. Vodafone Group Plc took control of the then J-Phone parent company, Japan Telecom Co, Ltd in September 2001. Since that time, Vodafone made preparations step by step in branding J-Phone into its own. According to Darryl E. Green, president and representative director of Vodafone KK, NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan’s mobile giant, could procure as many as 25 million handsets a year as opposed to J-Phone’s 8-10 million. But from now, offerings would be abound from Vodafone’s resources worldwide, as well as from suppliers around the globe such as Nokia Corp, Siemens AG, Ericsson and Motorola Inc. (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
  Vodafone Japan says likely to miss 3G user target
Friday, October 3, 2003
  Summary The Japanese wireless unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc said on Wednesday it would likely fall short of its original target of one million subscribers for its high-speed third-generation (3G) service by next March. Vodafone KK President Darryl Green made the comment at a news conference commemorating the change of the company name from J-Phone as of October 1. He did not disclose a new user target. "At the moment, it is getting difficult to achieve it. But one million remains an important milestone. To get there, we will be expanding the network coverage," Green told reporters in Japanese. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/2/2003
  Vodafone Japan unveals price cuts, TV-phone, but likely to miss 3G user target
Thursday, October 2, 2003
  Summary Vodafone KK says it plans to cut data communication charges and offer special weekend rates starting in December. Analysts say the recent slowdown in Vodafone KKfs net user growth is partly due to migration of existing heavy users to KDDIfs "au" service, which offers aggressive discount packages. Vodafone also unveiled a prototype of a new handset with a television tuner, manufactured by NEC Corp, which would make Vodafone KK the first Japanese operator to launch TV-capable handsets. J-Phone took Japan by storm in 2000 with its photo-phone service allowing users to take pictures with camera-equipped handsets. The company has watched its competitive edge quickly erode over the past year after NTT DoCoMo and KDDI began offering similar services. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/25/2003
  Vodafone K.K. says "Transition to 3G Will Definitely Go Forward"
Thursday, September 25, 2003
  Summary Darryl E. Green, presidentof Vodafone K.K. said the transition to 3G mobile phones will definitely go forward. Green first talked about the changes in user needs. He explained with three sets of the latest keywords, "megapixel camera phones," "design, usability, functionality," and "rate plans." "Megapixel camera phones" are handsets with built-in megapixel digital cameras. Although very popular these days, Green pointed out that the camera phones lack an environment in which users can fully enjoy their functionality because we can take megapixel photos, but we cannot send them. This is one of the reasons why he believes that the transition to 3G, where high-speed data transmission becomes possible, is a certainty. Furthermore, Green made the point that "With the transition to 3G, the Japanese handset manufacturers can gain an opportunity to move into world markets, while overseas manufacturers can also move into the Japanese market,". (NE Asia Online)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/22/2003
  Vodafone’s Japanese mobile unit developing tv-cellphone for December launch
Monday, September 22, 2003
  Summary Vodafone K.K. plans launch cellphones featuring a built-in television tuner as early as December. The new service would be the first of its kind in Japan with Vodafone’s biggest rivals currently have no plans to introduce a mobile television service. Vodafone was the world’s first company to offer mobile phones with built-in digital cameras a function that has proven so popular that virtually every new handset model for the Japanese market now includes a camera. (Yahoo! News)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/18/2003
  Vodafone K.K. unveils new data transmission card and terminal to boost the appeal of VGS
Thursday, September 18, 2003
  Summary Vodafone K.K. unveiled its new W-CDMA type CF card known as the "Vodafone Global Standard Data Card", and the compatible Sanyo V801SA handset. The VGS Data Card can download data at a maximum of 384kbps and upload at a maximum of 64kbps; however it does not support voice transmission. The V801SA handset comes equipped with a CF card terminal and is capable of utilizing both the W-CDMA and GSM platforms. This makes the new VGS Data Card compatible with this handset, most PDAs, and with the proper adapter notebook computers. (MMJ / Keitai Watch)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/9/2003
  Vodafone says plans exclusive 3G deals
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
  Summary Vodafone Group Plc VOD.L , the worlds largest mobile phone company, said on Monday it planned to sign exclusive supplier deals for a new generation of phones, but stopped short of saying Asian firms were heading the field. "Vodafone is trialling a number of handsets to support its 3G (third generation) service, which will be available before March 2004," the group stated. "Vodafone cannot confirm at this stage which manufacturers will be exclusive providers for Vodafones 3G services." In an effective snub to top handset maker Nokia, the Financial Times reported that Vodafone was negotiating exclusive deals with Japans Sanyo Electric Co Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of South Korea for its new range of upgraded Vodafone Live! multimedia phones. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/5/2003
  J-Phone Aug net user growth lowest since Nov/01
Friday, September 5, 2003
  Summary J-Phone, the Japanese mobile unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc, said on Friday net user growth fell 53 percent in August from a year earlier to 50,200. That was the lowest level since the current company structure was formed through a merger of regional firms in November 2001. Analysts have said that fewer new handset offerings and services from J-Phone compared with its rivals have blunted the company’s competitive edge in recent months. A spokesman at J-Phone, Japan’s third-largest mobile phone operator, said the company aimed to bolster its cellphone handset lineup and introduce new phone rates as soon as possible. In a stark contrast, net subscriber growth at KDDI Corp’s "au" mobile arm totalled 200,000 in August, up 59.7 percent on the year, as discount programmes and third-generation (3G) services lured heavy users. (Reuters)  
 
   
  J-Phone to change company name to Vodafone KK
Friday, September 5, 2003
  Summary Vodafone’s Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd said on Friday its wireless unit J-Phone would change its name to Vodafone KK on October 1 as the British parent switches its Japanese focus exclusively to the mobile market. The announcement comes two weeks after mobile telecoms giant Vodafone VOD.L said it would sell its fixed-line business in Japan to U.S. investment firm Ripplewood Holdings for $2.2 billion in Japan’s biggest leveraged buy-out. Vodafone holds a 69.7 percent stake in J-Phone through direct investment and indirect investment through Japan Telecom. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/29/2003
  J-Phone Starts Selling Nokias Bluetooth 3G Mobile Phone Handset
Friday, August 29, 2003
  Summary J-Phone Co, Ltd said it has started selling a 3G cellular phone made by Nokia Corp of Finland, called V-NM701, which is compatible with J-Phones W-CDMA service as well as 900-1,800MHz GSM service. The handset can be used in Europe, the Oceania region and Asian countries. The V-NM701 comprises a Nokia 6650 handset and a USIM card, the Vodafone Global Standard Card. It has Bluetooth and IrDA interfaces that allow users to easily connect outside equipment such as notebook PCs and PDAs. (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/21/2003
  Toshiba Debuts Home Media Server Distributing Data to TV, Two PCs at Once
Thursday, August 21, 2003
  Summary Toshiba Corp launched a home media server, "TransCube 20," on August 9. The home server functions as an HDD recorder, a wireless TV tuner, a movie/audio/PC data file server, and a wireless broadband router. It is improved from the previous model in that its HDD capacity is enlarged to 160GB, it can handle music data and data for PCs in addition to video, and it complies with IEEE802.11a wireless LANs as well as IEEE80211b. Its market price is around 150,000 yen. (118.31 yen = US$1) (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
  Ripplewood Buys Japan Telecom for $2 Bln
Thursday, August 21, 2003
  Summary U.S. investment firm Ripplewood Holdings said on Thursday it would buy Vodafone Group’s fixed-line business in Japan for $2.2 billion, a landmark deal that is expected to spur similar takeovers. Ripplewood -- which has invested in a bank, record label, car parts maker and giant indoor beach in Japan -- would borrow nearly 80 percent of the funds from a group of banks to buy the operations from Japan Telecom Holdings, two-thirds owned by Vodafone, the world’s biggest mobile phone operator. The leveraged buy-out (LBO) -- whereby investors buy companies with borrowed money and pledge the assets as collateral -- is the biggest of its kind in Japan. Banks had been eager to finance the deal with lucrative fees of 150-180 basis points above interbank rates. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/18/2003
  J-Phone announces Live! transition details
Monday, August 18, 2003
  Summary J-Phone Co. Ltd. said it will launch its Vodafone Live! services in early October, and users can access the offerings in Japan and abroad. The features for the new service include the operators Sha-mail picture messaging, video messaging and Web content; e-mail with attachments up to 200 kilobytes; enhanced results for Sha-mail content and video of up to 40 seconds; and Web functions that include wallpaper downloads and video clip files of up to 30 seconds. (RCR News)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/14/2003
  Vodafone Nears Japan Deal
Thursday, August 14, 2003
  Summary US investment fund Ripplewood Holdings is close to finalising the terms of a 1.36bn deal to buy the fixed-line business of Vodafone unit Japan Telecom, reports have said. The deal, worth 1.35bn, is likely to be announced next week and would be structured as Japan’s largest leveraged buyout. It was still in talks with Ripplewood and nothing had been decided, a Japan Telecom spokesman in Tokyo said. Ripplewood representatives were not immediately available for comment. Vodafone declined to comment. Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile phone operator, owns about two-thirds of Japan Telecom Holdings Co. (Sky News)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/29/2003
  Vodafone Says Japan Cell-Phone Users’ Spending Fell
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
  Summary Vodafone Group Plc, the world’s largest mobile-phone company, said average monthly revenue per user at its mobile-phone unit in Japan fell 4.3 percent in the first quarter as it added more customers for prepaid service. J-Phone’s user growth is being fueled in part by prepaid subscriptions, which don’t require users to sign a long-term contract. Prepaid-call users are likely to spend less than J- phone’s average customers do on their monthly phone bills. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/19/2003
  J-Phone to rename J-SKY Web service Vodafone Live
Saturday, July 19, 2003
  Summary J-Phone, a Japanese unit of Vodafone Group Plc, said on Tuesday it would rename its J-SKY wireless Internet service Vodafone Live! in October, aligning itself closer to its British parent’s global operation. Vodafone Live! is the British firm’s mobile Internet service, launched in October 2002 and now available in 13 countries. It had won around 1.5 million Vodafone Live! users by June, while J-Phone, which started its mobile Internet service in 1999, has 12.5 million J-SKY subscribers. J-Phone, Japan’s third-largest mobile phone operator, said in May it would change its brand name to Vodafone on October 1, in line with other Vodafone-controlled operators around the world. Vodafone has been in talks with U.S. investment fund Ripplewood Holdings to sell its Japanese fixed-line unit, a move that would allow Vodafone to concentrate on J-Phone. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/14/2003
  Vodafone to sell Japan unit for $2.2 bln - paper
Monday, July 14, 2003
  Summary Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc has agreed to sell its Japanese fixed-line unit to U.S. investment fund Ripplewood Holdings for 262 billion yen ($2.2 billion), the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper said on Saturday. Vodafone owns two-thirds of Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd, Japan’s third-largest telecoms company operating both fixed-line and mobile phone businesses. Analysts say the deal represents a good opportunity for Vodafone, which has been in talks with Ripplewood about the fixed-line business since early this year, to quit Japan’s battered landline market to focus on mobile phone unit J-Phone. Japan Telecom said nothing concrete has been decided at the moment, but that the talks with Ripplewood would be completed by the end of the month regardless of the outcome. (Reuters)  
 
   
  Vodafone to sell Japan unit for $2.2 bln - paper
Monday, July 14, 2003
  Summary Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc has agreed to sell its Japanese fixed-line unit to U.S. investment fund Ripplewood Holdings for 262 billion yen ($2.2 billion), the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper said on Saturday. Vodafone owns two-thirds of Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd, Japan’s third-largest telecoms company operating both fixed-line and mobile phone businesses. Analysts say the deal represents a good opportunity for Vodafone, which has been in talks with Ripplewood about the fixed-line business since early this year, to quit Japan’s battered landline market to focus on mobile phone unit J-Phone. J-Phone is Japan’s third-biggest wireless operator after NTT DoCoMo Inc and KDDI Corp. Japan Telecom said nothing concrete has been decided at the moment, but that the talks with Ripplewood would be completed by the end of the month regardless of the outcome. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/12/2003
  J-Phone Unveils the J-SA06 Sha-mail Handset
Saturday, July 12, 2003
  Summary J-Phone will offer the J-SA06 by Sanyo, a new Sha-mail phone handset, for sale after early August. The J-SA06s most notable feature is its Multi Sha-mail and Postcard capability, which makes it easy and fun for users to create and mail their own files using preset background animations, melodies and picture postcard templates that come bundled with the handset. (J-Phone)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/25/2003
  J-Phone Passes 2 Million Movie Sha-mail User Mark
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
  Summary J-PHONE Co., Ltd announced that as of June 24, the number of subscribers to its video messaging service known as Movie Sha-mail passed the 2 million mark. J-PHONE reached this milestone approximately 7 months after exceeding 1 million users in November 2002 and 1 year and 3 months after first introducing the service in March 2002. (J-Phone)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/20/2003
  J-Phone wins 10 mln photo-phone users, lags DoCoMo
Friday, June 20, 2003
  Summary J-Phone, the Japanese unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc VOD.L , said on Thursday it had won more than 10 million camera-phone users, following rival NTT DoCoMo Inc 9437.T which cleared the benchmark in late April. Camera-phone users now account for about 70 percent of J-Phone’s total subscribers. Launched in November 2000 by J-Phone, camera phones took Japan by storm, and the three major Japanese mobile phone operators -- DoCoMo, J-Phone and KDDI Corp -- had reeled in more than 26 million users by May. Although DoCoMo, Japan’s dominant cellphone operator, fell behind J-Phone in launching a photo-phone service, it became the first company to win 10 million users due partly to its vast subscriber base. J-Phone fought back in May by launching the world’s first megapixel camera phone model, with resolution of one million pixels, only to be surpassed two weeks later by DoCoMo’s 1.3 million pixel resolution phones. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/17/2003
  Beckham’s Japanese Sponsors Prepare to Transfer With Their Star
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
  Summary In Japan, David Beckham is bigger than Manchester United Plc, say his Japanese sponsors, and their allegiance will follow the England soccer player if he switches clubs. Beckham arrives in Tokyo tomorrow for his latest round of appearances to help sell chocolates for Japan’s largest confectionary maker, Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd., and meet two other big sponsors including Vodafone Plc’s J-Phone unit. J-Phone, Japan’s third-biggest mobile phone operator, is already altering its ad campaigns to focus on Beckham alone, rather than highlighting him in a red Manchester United shirt with its Vodafone logo. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/9/2003
  KDDI, J-Phone beat DoCoMo in May subscriber growth
Monday, June 9, 2003
  Summary NTT DoCoMo Inc slipped behind smaller rivals KDDI Corp and J-Phone in monthly subscriber growth in May for the first time in a year, data released by an industry group showed on Friday. DoCoMos slower growth came as users waited for the release of the full 505i series of handsets, set to become its top second generation (2G) models, a DoCoMo spokesman said. The first of six planned models was launched in May. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/6/2003
  J-PHONE Offers Two New Sha-mail Handsets
Friday, June 6, 2003
  Summary J-PHONE Co., Ltd. announced it will offer two new Sha-mail picture messaging handsets, the J-D08 by Mitsubishi Electric and the J-T010 by Toshiba, for sale after early July. The J-D08 comes with a high-resolution Super CCD Honeycom camera that has an effective resolution of 170,000 pixels and is capable of registering a maximum 310,000 pixels (640 x 480 resolution). To enable the backup of pictures, e-mail, address books and other precious data, the J-D08 supports SD Memory Cards and comes with an 8MB card. The J-D08’s motor drive function lets users take up to 64 pictures in succession and with the "real video playback" function, they can be played back to simulate video. The J-T010 features the industry’s first electronic dictionary function and comes with a Japanese dictionary of 40,000 words, an English-Japanese dictionary of 40,000 words and a Japanese-English dictionary of 36,000 words (all numbers approximate). (JapanCorp.Net)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/2/2003
  Guessing Game
Monday, June 2, 2003
  Summary British mobile giant Vodafone has Japan on tenterhooks by continuing to remain mum on its deal to sell the core fixed-line business of the Japan telecom group to Ripplewood Holdings or other buyers. The main focus of Vodafone is not on Japan Telecom but on J-Phone whose revenues account for 79% of the JT"s total revenues. One major move will be the renaming of J-Phone as Vodafone and a change in the corporate logo by the end of 2003. Already two shops are selling solely under the Vodafone name. From a global perspective, this makes sense, but then again, Japanese customers are sensitive and there is a lot at stake. (Telecom.asia)  
 
   
  J-Phone says service working again after glitches
Monday, June 2, 2003
  Summary J-Phone, the Japanese mobile phone unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc VOD.L , said on Friday its mobile phone network was working again after technical problems affected the handsets of some 310,000 users. The disruption, caused by a malfunctioning transmission system, lasted 4- hours in the afternoon and meant that phones in parts of greater Tokyo were unable to send or receive voice or data traffic. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/28/2003
  Vodafone’s Japan Unit Says Profit Will Fall This Year
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
  Summary Profit at the Vodafone’s J-Phone Co. unit, Japan’s third- largest mobile company, may fall as it starts to account for the cost of building a high-speed Internet network. J-Phone, which accounts for more than four-fifths of Japan Telecom’s profit, also faces rising competition from bigger rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KDDI Corp, which have copied the company’s popular picture-taking service, ending its 1 1/2 year dominance of that market. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
  J-Phone to change brand name to Vodafone on Oct 1
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
  Summary J-Phone Co Ltd, a Japanese mobile telecoms unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc, said on Tuesday it would change its brand name to Vodafone on October 1, like other Vodafone-controlled operators around the world. "J-Phone" is currently used both as the name of the operator and as the brand name of the service it offers. Vodafone said last year that it planned to change J-Phone’s brand name to Vodafone by the end of 2003. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/27/2003
  Vodafone’s Japan Unit Probably Turned to Profit
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
  Summary Japan Telecom Holdings Co., Vodafone Group Plc’s unit in Japan, probably had a fiscal second-half profit following its sale of units not related to its mobile-phone business and after adding more camera-phone users. In the 12 months ended March 31, J-Phone, which is two-thirds owned by Vodafone, boosted its share of Japan’s $53 billion mobile- phone market by 1.5 percentage points to 18.6 percent. The company added 2.4 million camera-phone customers in the six months ended March 31, meaning 65 percent of its subscribers now have access to picture messaging. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
  ANALYSIS: Ripplewood Confident about Plans for Japan Telecom
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
  Summary Despite a slowdown in growth in the fixed-line phone services market, US investment fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC appears to be confident about its plans for Japan Telecom Co Ltd, following its planned acquisition of the firm from British cellular phone giant Vodafone Group Plc. (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/21/2003
  J-Phone First to Market with Megapixel Camera Phone
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
  Summary J-Phone Co., Ltd. announced that the J-SH53 by Sharp, which comes with a built-in CCD mobile camera capable of photographing 1 million effective pixels, will be available in stores from May 22, making it the world's first true megapixel-class mobile handset to be commercially available. The J-SH53 comes packed with many new features, the most notable being its megapixel CCD mobile camera, which is capable of taking pictures up to a maximum resolution of 1144 x 858 pixels. It also comes with a top-of-class 2.4-inch QVGA "system LCD" display for unsurpassed screen quality and resolution. In addition, the J-SH53 boasts expanded mail capabilities that make it possible to send or receive Sha-mail pictures taken in wallpaper mode (QVGA size) or MPEG-4 format Movie Sha-mail video clips of up to 10 seconds in length. (J-Phone pdf format)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/15/2003
  J-PHONE to Introduce Content Charge Service for Open Contents
Thursday, May 15, 2003
  Summary J-PHONE Co., Ltd. announced that from June 3, 2003, it will introduce an "open content charge service" so fees for the viewing of open content can be combined with J-PHONE billing charges. Open content can be accessed on a J-PHONE mobile handset by directly inputting a URL using J-SKY's internet access function. The "open content charge service" is an information charge system offered to corporations (content providers) that meet a defined set of standards set by J-PHONE. On behalf of the content provider, J-PHONE adds the content charges to a customer's bill so content providers can charge for the use of their open content. (J-PHONE (Pdf))  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/12/2003
  Vodafone Group Strategy Director Says 3G is Just Another Technology, Not Like Service that Counts
Monday, May 12, 2003
  Summary Vodafone Group Plc of the UK is the world’s largest mobile phone carrier. The company finances telecom carriers in a total of 27 nations, including Germany, Italy, Spain, the US and Japan. Alan Harper, group strategy director, told Nikkei Communications about its 3G mobile phone strategy in Europe and the group’s edge at its headquarters on the outskirts of London. (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
  J-Phone To Offer New Anti-spam Function
Monday, May 12, 2003
  Summary Japan’s J-Phone mobile service provider plans to introduce a new ’e-mail header information viewer function’ as part of its efforts to combat spam. The function allows users to view e-mail header information received on a J-Phone mobile handset within the last two days on a PC. Normally an e-mail sender’s address and routing information are included in an e-mail header, but when receiving an e-mail on a mobile handset, some header information is abbreviated, making it difficult to determine the source. (Wireless Week)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/8/2003
  Japan Telecoms to Aim for Higher Profit
Thursday, May 8, 2003
  Summary Like NTT, earnings at Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd, a unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc, are expected to be led higher by its mobile unit J-Phone Co Ltd in 2003/04. However, some analysts sounded a note of caution on J-Phone’s competitiveness against its bigger rivals DoCoMo and KDDI. J-Phone is lagging DoCoMo and KDDI in 3G operations, with subscribers totaling 25,200 by the end of March. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/25/2003
  J-Phone to sell new high definition camera equipped handset
Friday, April 25, 2003
  Summary J-Phone Co., a unit of British wireless giant Vodafone Group PLC, said Thursday it will release a new mobile handset equipped with a high-definition camera in late May. The new model, J-SH53 produced by Sharp Corp., has 1 megapixel, more than three times as many pixels as the current models do, offering high picture quality equivalent to that of some digital cameras, company officials said. It will be sold for about 30,000 yen. (Kyodo)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/14/2003
  DoCoMo closes in on J-Phone on camera-phone users
Monday, April 14, 2003
  Summary Japan’s top cellphone operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc, said its camera-phone users now number over nine million, threatening the No.1 spot in the domestic photo-phone market held by J-Phone Co Ltd. As of March 31, photo-phone users at J-Phone, the Japanese unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc, totalled 9.015 million, while DoCoMo said its camera-phone subscribers exceeded the nine million mark on April 5, without citing an exact figure. It took J-Phone, a camera-phone pioneer and Japan’s third-largest mobile phone operator, over two years to attract nine million camera-phone users, while DoCoMo hit the same mark in 10 months since launching its first photo phone last June. (J-Phone)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/27/2003
  Vodafone, J-Phone see strong multimedia uptake
Thursday, March 27, 2003
  Summary J-Phone, Vodafones Japanese subsidiary, said the number of its subscribers with picture messaging-enabled handsets topped 9 million as of March 25. That makes the number of Sha-Mail users, the brand name for J-Phones picture messaging service, about 65 percent of its total subscriber base of 13 million. (RCR News)  
 
   
  Vodafone Turns to Prepaid Services to Attract Users in Japan
Thursday, March 27, 2003
  Summary The Japanese mobile-phone unit of Vodafone Group Plc is adopting a new tactic in a bid to grab a bigger slice of Japan’s $53 billion mobile-phone market from rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KDDI Corp. -- prepaid phones. The unit, J-Phone Co., Japan’s third-largest mobile-phone provider, says it added 43,000 prepaid handset users last month, accounting for more than a quarter of its new users in February. Usage of the service, which doesn’t require a subscriber to sign a long-term contract, will probably double by next year, said Masayoshi Yamano, general manager of J-Phone’s marketing strategy. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 2/27/2003
  J-Phone integrates location services
Thursday, February 27, 2003
  Summary J-Phone, Vodafone’s Japanese subsidary, has announced that it is integrating data from several third parties into a single location-based service known as Loco Guide. The service will aggregate information on transportation, restaurants, leisure spots, banks and hospitals, allowing users to perform a single search based on their current or a specified location. (PMN)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 2/10/2003
  Vodafone Japan unveals new strategy, but likely to miss 3G user target
Monday, February 10, 2003
  Summary Vodafone KK says it plans to cut data communication charges and offer special weekend rates starting in December. Analysts say the recent slowdown in Vodafone KK's net user growth is partly due to migration of existing heavy users to KDDI's "au" service, which offers aggressive discount packages. Vodafone also unveiled a prototype of a new handset with a television tuner, manufactured by NEC Corp, which would make Vodafone KK the first Japanese operator to launch TV-capable handsets. J-Phone took Japan by storm in 2000 with its photo-phone service allowing users to take pictures with camera-equipped handsets. The company has watched its competitive edge quickly erode over the past year after NTT DoCoMo and KDDI began offering similar services. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 1/17/2003
  J-Phone Sha-mail Wireless Handsets Top 8 Million
Friday, January 17, 2003
  Summary As of Jan 14, 2003, J-Phone’s Sha-mail picture messaging enabled handsets exceeded the 8 million mark. Since topping 7 million in October 2002, Sha-mail subscribers increased by 1 million in approximately three months, bringing the number of Sha-mail users to 60% of J-Phones total subscriber base. (3G)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 1/8/2003
  J-Phone Reports 4.7mn Java Users in October 2002
Wednesday, January 8, 2003
  Summary J-Phone released a "fact sheet" providing a wealth of information on its cellular operations. As of October 31, 2002, the firm had 13,082,300 subscribers overall, a month-on-month increase of 81,100. These comprised 11,206,600 Internet-capable handset users, 7,045,700 "Sha-Mail" picture-mail users, 924,000 packet data users, and 4,749,700 Java users (figures do not sum up as many handsets can provide more than one service). According to 2002 second quarter key performance indicators, J-Phone’s ARPU for the period April-September 2002 varied from 7,310 yen (April) to 7,180 yen (Sept). As of September 30, 2002 (end of the second quarter), past-year average non-voice data service revenue was 18.1 percent of overall service revenue, of which messaging data comprised 6.7 percent and Internet data comprised 11.4 percent. The carrier said that total data revenue as a percentage of service revenue for the month of September 2002 was 20.2 percent (7.4 percent messaging and 12.8 percent Internet), indicating that data revenue as a percentage of service revenue is rising. (JapanCorp.Net)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 1/7/2003
  New Sanyo 3G Mobile
Tuesday, January 7, 2003
  Summary The Sanyo V-SA701 will be the second VGS 3G Mobile Phone to be made available by J-Phone in Japan. An explanation of the VGS service and the specification of the new 3G mobile follow. Vodafone Global Standard is a W-CDMA 3G service based on international 3GPP standards and features global roaming services. (3g.co.uk)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 1/2/2003
  J-Phone’s Limited Appeal
Thursday, January 2, 2003
  Summary NTT DoCoMo Inc. hardly has a roaring success on its hands with its WCDMA service in Japan, but it won’t be quaking in its boots over the competitive threat from rival J-Phone Co. Ltd., part of Vodafone Group plc. J-Phone is aiming for a very particular market. The devices are dualmode WCDMA/GSM, but there are no GSM networks in Japan. J-Phone is counting on Japanese business customers who travel abroad to countries with GSM networks signing up to have whizzy 3G service at home and then be able to use the same handset to roam overseas. (Unstrung)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/30/2002
  J-Phonefs 3G launch fizzles due to lack of handsets
Monday, December 30, 2002
  Summary That is the message awaiting Japanese consumers who may want to subscribe to a twice-delayed third-generation (3G) mobile phone service launched on December 20 by Vodafone Group Plcfs J-Phone, Japanfs third-largest wireless carrier. Only 150 handsets were available nationwide on the day of the launch of the high-speed service, a J-Phone source said on Friday. Another 800 were shipped out on Tuesday this week. "We canft deny therefs not much out there," the source said, confirming that only 31 of the 1,929 retail outlets nationwide carrying J-Phone handsets had 3G phones in stock for the launch. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/24/2002
  Vodafone Starts With Japan
Tuesday, December 24, 2002
  Summary Japan’s J-Phone Corp has become the first Vodafone Group unit to start a commercial third-generation (3G) mobile phone service. The aim is to bring Europe’s largest wireless operator fresh growth potential. Although 3G is not expected to ring up huge revenues for Vodafone in the short term, the launch is seen as an indicator of things to come, analysts said. "The rest of the Vodafone group views Japan as a crystal ball for wireless services," said Bruce Kirk, equity research director for KBC Securities in Tokyo. (Sky News)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/23/2002
  Vodafone takes first 3G step with J-Phone launch
Monday, December 23, 2002
  Summary Japan’s J-Phone Corp on Friday became the first Vodafone Group Plc unit to start a commercial third-generation (3G) mobile phone service, bringing Europe’s largest wireless operator fresh growth potential. Although 3G isn’t expected to ring up huge revenues for Vodaphone in the short term, the launch is seen as an indicator of things to come, analysts said. "The rest of the Vodafone group views Japan as a crystal ball for wireless services," said Bruce Kirk, equity research director for KBC Securities in Tokyo. (Forbes)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/9/2002
  Vodafone in
Monday, December 9, 2002
  Summary In a bizarre move to kickstart its 3G services, Vodafone has just announced that its Japanese subsidiary, J-Phone, will launch a 3G service on December 20th 2002. The twist is firstly that it will not initially be offering restricted data services - mainly just voice. Secondly, although J-Phone will be offering dual mode (GSM and W-CDMA) handsets supplied by Nokia and NEC, they wonft actually froamf onto GSM when no 3G network is available. Thatfs because Japan uses PDC or CDMA for its 2G services, not GSM.Consequently Vodafone will neatly side-step the voice call fhandoverf issue from 2G to 3G which is what is currently holding back rivals like Hutchison 3G from launching. To call it 3G is therefore stretching the point? How about 1.5G? (The Inquirer)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/6/2002
  Int’l Roaming is Major Feature of J-Phone’s New 3G Service
Friday, December 6, 2002
  Summary J-Phone Co., Ltd. announced Dec. 3 that it plans to launch its new third-generation (3G) mobile phone service in Japan on Dec. 20. J-Phone’s new service, which will be called "Vodafone Global Standard," is based on wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) technology. It will be the third 3G phone service to be launched in Japan, following NTT DoCoMo Inc.’s FOMA and KDDI Corp.’s CDMA2000 1x, which are already available. W-CDMA wireless telecoms standard, the same as DoCoMo’s FOMA service, is to be used in the new J-Phone service. (NEAsia Online)  
 
   
  J-Phone targets 1 million 3G users by end-2003
Friday, December 6, 2002
  Summary J-Phone, a Vodafone Group company in Japan, will launch third-generation (3G) service in Japan on 20 December, J-Phone announced. By launching a dual terminal that will be able to be used for both GSM and W-CDMA services, J-Phone is aiming to win 1 million users by the end of December 2003. In Japan, NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in Japan, launched its 3G service based on W-CDMA in October 2001, and KDDI Corp, the second-largest operator in Japan, launched 3G service based on cdma2000 in April 2002. (Global Wireless News)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/3/2002
  Japan’s J-Phone to launch 3G service on Dec 20
Tuesday, December 3, 2002
  Summary J-Phone Corp, Japan’s third-largest wireless carrier and a unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group, unveiled its twice-delayed third-generation (3G) mobile service on Tuesday, saying it would be launched on December 20. J-Phone said the service would offer international roaming in 50 countries and regions. The move to provide international roaming would give J-Phone a competitive edge over its two main rivals, NTT DoCoMo Inc and KDDI Corp, which already offer 3G services. J-Phone, owned by Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd and its parent Vodafone, said it would offer 3G handsets made by NEC Corp, Sanyo Electric Co Ltd and Finland’s Nokia. (Reuters)  
 
   
  J-Phone Sees Vodafone Strengths Aiding 3G Success
Tuesday, December 3, 2002
  Summary J-Phone Co., Japan’s third-largest mobile phone operator, said the global muscle of its U.K. parent, Vodafone Group Pld, will help make its immiment launch of commercial third-generation (3G) mobile phone services an inevitable success. Such doubts were in stark contrast to J-Phone’s confident tone, as the company announced Tuesday that it will finally begin 3G mobile phone services from Dec. 20, after delaying the launch twice before. The company said its offerings will include, in addition to basic voice phone service, a video-phone service and an international short-messaging service in English and in Japanese, as well as high-speed data communications. (Dow Jones)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/2/2002
  J-PHONE Enhances Wireless Sha-mail Service
Monday, December 2, 2002
  Summary J-Phone will enhance its @Sha-mail service on December 2, 2002 to enable Movie Sha-mail users to send video clip files of up to five seconds to non-Movie Sha-mail J-PHONE handsets and users of other Japanese mobile carriers. Available from October 2001, @Sha-mail is a service that lets J-PHONE users send pictures to a maximum of 5 recipients including J-PHONE users, other Japanese mobile operator subscribers and PC users. No application or monthly fee is required and customers are only billed for communication charges. (3G.co.uk)  
 
   
  All Eyes On J-Phones Delayed Launch
Monday, December 2, 2002
  Summary The twice delayed commercial launch of Japanese mobile operator J-Phone’s 3G network will finally happen this month. The new W-CDMA system will effectively be the Vodafone Group’s first foray into 3G and the results will be watched anxiously in Europe. Given the disappointment which has surrounded the W-CDMA Foma service operated by NTT DoCoMo, J-Phone executives are, perhaps rightly, not setting their objectives too high. Meanwhile, W-CDMA has clunked along in its wake. DoCoMo recently cut growth forecasts for its Foma service by 77% to 320,000 subscribers by the end of March 2003. (BWCS)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/20/2002
  J-Phone reaches 1m video messaging subscribers
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
  Summary J-Phone Co., Ltd. announced today that as of November 19, the number of subscribers to its video messaging service known as ’Movie Sha-mail’’ passed the 1 million mark. J-Phone reached the milestone approximately 9 months after first introducing the service in March 2002. (PMN)  
 
   
  Japan monopoly watchdog raids mobile firm J-Phone
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
  Summary Japan’s third-largest mobile phone operator, J-Phone Corp, said on Wednesday the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) had raided its headquarters and some branch offices on suspicion of fixing retail prices on handsets. J-Phone is operated by Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd and its British parent, Vodafone Group Plc. "We are still in the process of gathering information. But it is true that the FTC raided our offices," a J-Phone spokesman said. The daily Yomiuri Shimbun said in its evening edition that the FTC is investigating the possibility that J-Phone forced retailers to stick to designated retail prices in an effort to prevent handset prices from tumbling amid heated competition. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/13/2002
  J-Phone success boosts Japan Telecom balance
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
  Summary Japan Telecom Holdings Co., the owner of Japan’s third-largest telecom carrier, said Tuesday its group net balance for the fiscal first half to Sept. 30 swung back into the black due mainly to cost-cutting and growth in its J-Phone mobile phone services. Consolidated net profit for the first half came to 43.52 billion yen, up sharply from a loss of 5.19 billion yen the previous year. British mobile phone giant Vodafone Group PLC owns 66.7 percent of Japan Telecom Holdings. (Japan Times)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/11/2002
  Japan Telecom to return to profit, despite camera-phone rivals
Monday, November 11, 2002
  Summary Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd likely returned to profit in the first half but outlook for the no. 3 telecoms operator may be challenging due to its waning dominance in camera phones, analysts say.Japan Telecom , owned two-thirds by Britainfs Vodafone Group Plc , announces results for the six months to September on Tuesday. Research firm Toyo Keizai Inc has forecast a group net profit of 17 billion yen ($139.4 million), compared with a net loss of 5.19 billion yen a year earlier. A sharp earnings turnaround has been widely expected due to strong demand for the firmfs camera-equipped cellphones and brisk cost-cutting efforts, but analysts are concerned that entry by rivals into the camera-phone market and a cutback in capital spending may hurt the firmfs long-term growth potential. (Reuters)  
 
   
  J-Phone Oct new users below 100,000, 1st in 2 yrs
Monday, November 11, 2002
  Summary J-Phone Corp, Japan’s third-largest mobile phone operator, said new subscribers totalled 81,100 in October, below 100,000 for the first time in two years as its advantage in camera-equipped handsets wanes. But rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc and KDDI Corp earlier this year scrambled to launch their own versions, chipping away at J-Phone’s dominance in the field. J-Phone’s subscribers totalled 13,082,300 as of the end of October, while KDDI’s wireless arm, "au", saw its user base grow by 143,800 to 13,197,400 in October. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/7/2002
  Japan Telecom H1 results seen upbeat, outlook murky
Thursday, November 7, 2002
  Summary Nov. 6, 2002. Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd likely returned to profit in the first half but the outlook for the nation’s third-largest telecoms operator is murky due to its eroding dominance in camera phones, analysts say. Japan Telecom, owned two-thirds by Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc, is set to announce results for the six months to September on Tuesday. "This company is substantially cutting capital expenditure and sales costs," said Shinji Moriyuki, analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research. "For the short-term, you produce bigger profits by not spending on these costs. But in the long term, you may be trimming your growth margin by doing so." (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/31/2002
  Vodafone Plans to Drop J-Phone Brand
Thursday, October 31, 2002
  Summary Vodafone Group PLC, the British parent of J-Phone Corp. in Japan, plans all its Japanese operations to be branded "Vodafone" by December 2003. The irony of J-Phone’s disappearance as a brand is that Vodafone has learnt the value of a strong, uniform brand identity largely through Vodafone’s operations with its Japanese affiliate. Vodafone Chief Executive Sir Christopher Gent said, "It’s one of the big things we learnt from Japan, this ’total experience’ end to end." (WirelessWeek)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/30/2002
  J-Phone announces advanced new handsets
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
  Summary J-Phone, the Japanese operator controlled by Vodafone, has announced that it will start selling advanced new picture messaging handsets from Toshiba and Sanyo in November 2002. J-Phone claims Toshiba’s J-T08 is the first handset to feature a 240 x 320 QVGA screen, while Sanyo’s J-SA05 uses its digital camera and secondary display to mirror its surroundings. The J-T08 employs the new Super Fine Poly-silicon TFT screen for the main display and also features a secondary colour display on the outside of the handset. It can record up to 3 minutes of video. (PMN)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/25/2002
  Japan’s J-Phone camera-phone users top 7 mln
Friday, October 25, 2002
  Summary Japanese mobile phone operator J-Phone Corp said the number of its camera-phone users had topped seven million, or more than half of its user base, underscoring continued demand for the latest telecoms trend. J-Phone, Japan’s third-largest wireless carrier operated by Japan Telecom Holdings Co and Vodafone Group Plc, said its camera-phone users totalled 7.004 million as of Wednesday, representing 53.6 percent of its total subscribers. J-Phone launched the world’s first camera-equipped cellphones in late 2000 setting off Japan’s hottest telecoms trend since the rise of the mobile Internet. The phones allow users to take photos and send them via e-mail. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/23/2002
  Nokia wins J-Phone 3G network deal
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
  Summary Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia hadswon a 3G network expansion deal with Japan’s J-Phone VOD.L for an undisclosed sum. Nokia said the deal was for the expansion of J-Phone’s radio access network. Nokia’s rival Ericsson on Monday also said it had won a 3G network expansion deal from J-Phone, which is part of the Vodafone group. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/22/2002
  Ericsson wins J-Phone 3G contract
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
  Summary Loss-making Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson said on Monday it secured additional orders for the rollout of the the 3G network of Japanese telecoms operator J-Phone. Ericsson, the world’s biggest producer of mobile networks, said it would supply its base stations, incliding new ones especially developed for crowded urban areas like subways, as J-Phone builds its nation-wide 3G network. J-Phone is part of the Vodafone Group, the world’s biggest global mobile phone operator and Ericsson is a strategic supplier to Vodafone. Ericsson did not give the value of the deal. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/4/2002
  J-Phone May Change Brand Name To Vodafone Next Yr
Friday, October 4, 2002
  Summary J-Phone Co. plans to offer dual-mode third-generation cell phones when it launches its 3G service in Japan in December, a senior company executive said Friday. "J-Phone will launch a dual-mode phone because we want to extract benefits from being a part of the Vodafone group. So 3G and GSM (global system for mobile communication) services will be available from day one," chief marketing and sales officer at J-Phone, Richard Timmons said at a wireless communications conference in Tokyo. Timmons said J-Phone, in which Vodafone is a majority shareholder, may change its brand name to Vodafone from J-Phone in the middle of next year, possibly around the same time its 3G service coverage becomes equivalent to that of its 2G service. (Dow Jones)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/27/2002
  J-Phone Selects 3G Network Rollout Software
Friday, September 27, 2002
  Summary Bovis Lend Lease has been awarded the contract to manage construction of a 3G Network for Vodafones Japanese partner, J-Phone, and CellTracker has been selected to provide its Rollout Management software. Bovis Lend Lease and J-Phone will use the CellTracker system to manage securing of sites, procurement of design, materials and construction services, and management of the construction works. Bovis Lend Lease is one of the worlds leading companies in the project management and construction services industry. CellTracker is a leading provider of software for network rollout and management and one of the fastest growing technology companies in the UK. (3G.co.uk)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/26/2002
  Vodafone to control handset software
Thursday, September 26, 2002
  Summary Vodafone will install their own proprietary software on its new handsets from all the largest equipment makers, including market leader Nokia, the Wall Street Journal reported citing unidentified sources. The move consolidates Vodafone’s push to rollout their answer to DoCoMo’s i-mode service, called Vodafone Live! through modelling their subsidiary J-Phone’s J-Sky service in Japan. The UK-based group aims at having all the handsets work in the same way, the report said. Nokia will keep its brand on handsets and run the software, which will apply to picture messaging, games and location-based services to be introduced by Vodafone next month, the newspaper said. (PMN.co.uk)  
 
   
  Vodafone says Japan phone subsidy policy unchanged
Thursday, September 26, 2002
  Summary Vodafone Group Plc said on Wednesday the overall level of its phone subsidies in Japan had not changed, despite monthly fluctuations in the discounts. "There is no change to Vodafone’s incentive policy in Japan, and it’s not true to say that subsidies have been raised quarter on quarter," a Vodafone Group spokesman said. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/20/2002
  J-Phone to launch 3G service on 29 December
Friday, September 20, 2002
  Summary The Japanese government on 18 September granted J-Phone, a Vodafone company in Japan, a license for third-generation (3G) commercial service. Based on the governmental approval, J-Phone will launch its nationwide 3G services on 29 December. J-Phone will be the last to provide 3G service in Japan. J-Phone has been providing an experimental 3G service in the Tokyo metropolitan area since June. J-Phone also said it will begin offering its J-Phone Online service nationwide next week, allowing customers to view and make changes to their accounts with their mobile phones. (Global Wireless News)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/10/2002
  J-Phone falters in mobile phone user growth
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
  Summary Japan’s J-Phone Corp posted its smallest net user growth in 33 months in August with camera phones, once the speciality of Japan’s third-largest wireless carrier, now available from its competitors, recent industry data showed. J-Phone, operated by Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd and its parent Vodafone Group Plc, saw its customer numbers grow by 106,200 in August to 12.90 million, the Telecommunications Carriers Association said. It was J-Phone’s smallest monthly user growth since November 1999. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/6/2002
  J-Phone Adds Net Total Of 106,200 Cellphone Users In Aug
Friday, September 6, 2002
  Summary Japan Telecom Holdings Co.s (J.JTC or 9434) J-Phone unit said Friday it added a net total of 106,200 cellphone subscribers in August from the previous month, bringing the total number of its subscribers 12,901,000 in August. J-Phones "J-Sky" mobile Internet service saw a net increase of 153,900 subscribers, to reach a total of 10,943,400 subscribers in August. (Dow Jones)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/3/2002
  J-Phone Intros New Handsets
Tuesday, September 3, 2002
  Summary J-PHONE Co., Ltd. will offer two new Movie Sha-mail (video messaging) handsets from the beginning of October 2002, the J-SA51 (manufactured by Sanyo) and the J-SH52 (manufactured by Sharp). Movie Sha-mail is a service that enables users to send video clips of up to five seconds with sound as e-mail attachments. The J-SA51 can take pictures at low light levels with its highly sensitive embedded CCD mobile camera. In addition, the J-SA51 can compress or expand ZIP files as well as send or receive them as e-mail attachments. With the addition of the J-SA51 and the J-SH52 to J-PHONE’s lineup, there is now a total of six Movie Sha-mail handsets available. (Unstrung)  
 
   
  J-Phone to recall faulty new handset
Tuesday, September 3, 2002
  Summary Cell phone service operator J-Phone Co. said Wednesday that one of its newly introduced handsets is experiencing problems with software related to Internet access. The problem could cause the phones to display an incorrect screen when users are accessing the Internet, the company said. The handset in question is the J-SH09, made by Sharp Corp., which went on sale earlier this month in the Hokkaido, Hokuriku, Tokai, Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu regions, J-Phone said. About 5,500 handsets have been sold so far, the company said. (Japan Times)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/12/2002
  Japan’s J-Phone photo-phone users top six million
Monday, August 12, 2002
  Summary Japanese wireless operator J-Phone Corp said on Monday the number of users of its camera-equipped phones had exceeded six million, totalling nearly half of its subscriber base, in the latest sign of strong photo-phone demand. J-Phone, Japan’s third-largest mobile carrier operated by Japan Telecom Holdings Co Ltd. and Britain’s Vodafone Group Plc, said its photo-phone users numbered 6.01 million by August 9, up 88 percent since the start of the year. That represents 46.9 percent of its total subscribers. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/8/2002
  J-Phone -2:Total No Of Subscribers Hits 12.8 Million July
Thursday, August 8, 2002
  Summary Japan Telecom Holdings Co.’s J-Phone unit said Wednesday it added 125,100 cellphone subscribers in July, lifting its overall cellphone subscriber base to 12.795 million. J-Phone also said it added 144,200 subscribers to its "J-Sky" mobile Internet service in July, for a total of 10.790 million subscribers. J-Phone is majority-owned by Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) of the U.K., while Japan Telecom is an affiliate of Vodafone.  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/7/2002
  J-Phone:Total No Of Subscribers Hits 12.8 Million July
Wednesday, August 7, 2002
  Summary Japan Telecom Holdings Co.’s J-Phone unit said Wednesday it added 125,100 cellphone subscribers in July, lifting its overall cellphone subscriber base to 12.795 million. J-Phone also said it added 144,200 subscribers to its "J-Sky" mobile Internet service in July, for a total of 10.790 million subscribers. J-Phone is majority-owned by Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) of the U.K., while Japan Telecom is an affiliate of Vodafone. (Dow Jones)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/2/2002
  J-Phone’s New Java Platform Could Be Proprietary
Friday, August 2, 2002
  Summary The software platform for J-Phone Co., Ltd.’s cellular phones is under review, and a possibility exists that the company will need to adopt new specifications that are incompatible with those used in existing products, according to IT industry sources. A technology insider familiar with the inner workings of J-Phone has revealed that Vodafone Group Plc., J-Phone’s parent firm, has called some of the J-Phone engineers involved in developing Java-equipped handsets to its offices in Germany to help put together the specs of a basic software platform for the Vodafone Group’s cellular phones. That new platform will also be adopted by J-Phone in Japan for its next-generation phone models. (Nikkei Electronics)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/1/2002
  J-PHONE Unveils New Sha-Mail Handset: the J-SH09
Thursday, August 1, 2002
  Summary J-PHONE Co. will begin selling its newest Sha-Mail (picture messaging) handset, the J-SH09 manufactured by Sharp Corporation, in late August. The phone features an integrated seven color "mobile light" that supports photography at low light levels and a camera that is roughly five times more sensitive than previous J-SH08 models. The camera can be used in 3 different modes: "Sha-Mail" mode, "Digital Camera Mode" (VGA Mode) and "Action Snap Mode" (10 seconds maximum of motion recording including sound) (J-Phone)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/24/2002
  Gaijin on a Mission at Japan Telecom
Wednesday, July 24, 2002
  Summary It’s a gloomy Friday morning in mid-June, but CEO William Morrow is firing up his troops. For Morrow, it’s an important moment, because earlier meetings with top lieutenants just didn’t get the message across. "They weren’t in crisis mode," he said later. So this time around, Morrow is taking a decidedly un-Japanese approach: He’s going directly to the business-unit managers who will be implementing the changes. It works. (Business Week)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/22/2002
  J-Phone President Aims for Global Roaming of Sha-Mail
Monday, July 22, 2002
  Summary Darryl E. Green, president of J-Phone Co., Ltd., regards international roaming of the "Sha-mail" service as the most important element of the company’s 3G mobile phone service. The "Sha-mail" service enables mobile phone users to take pictures with a built-in camera and send the pictures by attaching them to e-mails. J-Phone plans to start providing the commercial 3G mobile-phone service in Japan from the end of 2002. (AsiaBizTech)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/2/2002
  J-Phone Tiptoes Towards 3G
Tuesday, July 2, 2002
  Summary -Phone Co. Ltd. crept into 3G territory on Sunday with more of a whimper than a bang. Just 160 people are involved in the trial of its W-CDMA service in and around Tokyo, and there is just one handset model available, NEC Corp. J-N001. So low-key was the trial launch that the company did not feel it was worth announcing. (Unstrung)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/18/2002
  Japan Telecom raises handset subsidies
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
  Summary Japan Telecom led a drop in Japanese telecom shares after its wireless arm raised handset subsidies, but analysts expect it to keep its promise to cut marketing costs despite growing competition. J-Phone, controlled by Japan Telecom and Vodafone, said on Friday it topped up subsidies to retailers this month by an extra 2,500 yen ($20) per handset as it gears up for the active summer sales season. (Reuters)  
 
   
  Vodafone Group and J-Phone Expand Worldwide
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
  Summary Vodaphone intends to show Sha-Mail service, the most promising of all the new services to be launched by the Vodafone group in Europe. Already, Vodafone has started the image distribution service, which is similar to J-Phone’s Sha-mail service, in Germany and Portugal. In Japan, the total number of subscribers to the Sha-mail service reached four million as of the end of March 2002. The "Movie Sha-mail" service won 115,000 subscribers in the initial month after it was launched in March 2002. In addition, Vodafone intends to change J-Phone’s corporate name to "Vodafone" by the end of 2002. (AsiaBizTech)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/3/2002
  Japan’s J-Phone tone-down 3G strategy in question
Monday, June 3, 2002
  Summary Given Japanese consumers’ cool response to pricey, over-hyped third-generation (3G) wireless services, Vodafone Group Plc subsidiary J-Phone Co might be wise to save cash and tone down its 3G plans. Some analysts say the limited, makeshift 3G service that Japan’s third-largest mobile operator plans to launch in December could be too little, too late, and it may never achieve its ambition of becoming Japan’s wireless leader. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/27/2002
  Vodafone Sheds Teeny-Bopper Image in Japan to Lure DoCoMo Us
Monday, May 27, 2002
  Summary Vodafone Group’s latest ads in Japan feature clean-cut, young professionals exchanging video clips using handsets with built-in cameras. Gone is Norika Fujiwara, the model-actress whose appeal helped make the product of Vodafone’s J-Phone Co. a hit among the country’s teenagers. The campaign is a sign that Europe’s largest wireless phone company is courting the traditional customers of Japan market leader NTT DoCoMo Inc. as it tries to boost the No. 3 operator’s 17 percent market share. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/20/2002
  J-Phone To Start Trial 3G Cellphone Service On June 30
Monday, May 20, 2002
  Summary Japan Telecom Co.’s mobile phone unit said Monday it plans to begin offering a third-generation cellphone service on a six-month trial basis in Tokyo and certain other areas in Japan on June 30. The move comes ahead of a twice-delayed commercial launch of J-Phone’s 3G service, currently scheduled for December. J-Phone said it will provide the trial service in three prefectures and 92 municipalities as well as in Tokyo, and will distribute two 3G handset models - NEC Corp.’s "J-N001" model and Sanyo’s "J-SA001" model. As part of the trial 3G service, J-Phone Co. will offer voice communication services, and data transmission services between personal computers and Sanyo Electric’s "J-SA001" handset model. (Dow Jones)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/26/2002
  J-Phone to postpone 3G service until year-end
Friday, April 26, 2002
  Summary J-Phone will postpone its third-generation (3G) service launch until December to provide "global standard service." J-Phone had previously planned to launch its 3G service on 30 June. J-Phone, said that because the standard for wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) technology had been changed last March, the company has no choice but to postpone its commercial service launch. (Global Wireless)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/24/2002
  J-Phone to postpone 3G service launch to December
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
  Summary J-Phone Communications will postpone the launch of third generation cellular phone service from June to December, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported. According to Wednesday's edition of the paper, monitored in New York on Tuesday, international specifications had been set back and the new phones would not be developed in time. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/19/2002
  Osaka Police Use Image-Sending Mobile Phones for Identifying
Friday, April 19, 2002
  Summary Osaka Prefectural Police have started a crime information collection system called "Gazo Dial 110" ("image" in Japanese). The Gazo Dial 110 control center can receive crime-related email pictures from Osaka citizens with camera-equipped mobile phones. This is the first program of its kind that utilizes the popular J-Phone Sha-Mail, a cellular phone handset with a built-in camera. (AsiaBizTech)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/18/2002
  Osaka Police Use Image-Sending Mobile Phones in Identifying
Thursday, April 18, 2002
  Summary Osaka Prefectural Police have started a crime information collection system called "Gazo Dial 110" ("image" in Japanese). The Gazo Dial 110 control center can receive crime-related email pictures from Osaka citizens with camera-equipped mobile phones. This is the first program of its kind that utilizes the popular J-Phone Sha-Mail, a cellular phone handset with a built-in camera. (AsiaBizTech)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/11/2002
  J-Phone's Mobile Commun Svc Hit By Technical Glitch
Thursday, April 11, 2002
  Summary J-Phone said the technical problems affected an estimated 3.7 million of its J-Phone cellphone subscribers. According to Kyodo News, the number of subscribers affected by the technical problems was the largest ever for J-Phone. The short-messaging service between KDDI Corp.'s "Tu-Ka" cellphones and J-Phone's cellphones wasn't available due to the glitches, J-Phone said. The wireless service is currently operating normally. (Kyodo News)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/10/2002
  Vodafone hits low as Japan fears surface
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
  Summary Vodafone will have to take a huge charge on its investments in Japan after the country's leading operator said subscriber growth had collapsed. NTT DoCoMo warned that it expected to add 30pc fewer subscribers this year, or 3.3m compared with 4.8m in the year to March. NTT DoCoMo is the only operator in the world to have a fully functioning 3G network and the news puts added pressure on the new service to deliver earnings growth. Vodafone is heavily exposed to Japan via its 70pc stake in mobile operator J-Phone and its 67pc stake in the fixed-line business Japan Telecom. Vodafone shares slumped 5pc to their lowest for nearly four years. (Electronic Telegraph)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/29/2002
  J-Phone Reaches 12 Million Subs; 1/3 Use 'Sha-Mail'
Friday, March 29, 2002
  Summary J-Phone says subscribers to its mobile phone services surpassed 12 million on March 20, an increase of 2 million in the last year. The main driving force behind J-Phone's success in attracting new users has been "Sha-Mail" -- a service that allows users to take photos with cameras that are built into their handsets and then send them to other phone users via email. About 4 million Sha-Mail phones are now in use. (Nikkei Mechanical)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/25/2002
  Japan's J-Phone's Picture-Sending Cell Phone at 4 mil units
Monday, March 25, 2002
  Summary J-Phone, Japan's third largest cellular phone company, announced Monday that cumulative sales of terminals capable of taking and e-mailing pictures has topped 4 million units, accounting for one-third of its approximately 12 million subscribers. The company launched the service with the release of a handset featuring a built-in camera in November 2000. This month, J-Phone is to start a new service allowing five-second video clips to be sent via cell phone. (Asia Pulse)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/19/2002
  Mobile Phones with Cameras Become Increasingly Popular
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
  Summary Mobile-phone handsets with camera modules are selling well in the now-mature mobile-phone market. According to J-Phone, the cumulative number of its camera-equipped handset units surpassed 3.5 million as of February 2002, since its introduction of "Sha-mail handsets in November 2000. This figure accounted for about 30 percent of all the handsets by J-Phone currently used in the market. Seeing this trend, NTT DoCoMo Inc., TU-KA Phone Group, and au Group have started to offer mobile phones with camera modules. (Nikkei Electronics)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/8/2002
  J-Phone Adds 159,000 Mobile Users in February, Nears Target
Friday, March 8, 2002
  Summary J-Phone Ltd., Japan's No. 3 mobile-phone operator, added 159,000 subscribers in February, as users continued to sign-up for its ``picture-mail'' handsets which allow digitalized snap-shots to be viewed and traded. J-Phone, a unit of Vodafone Group Plc, Europe's largest mobile-phone operator, said it had 11.92 million users at the end of February, leaving it just 80,000 short of its target of attracting 12 million customers by March 31. KDDI Corp., Japan's second-largest mobile-phone operator, said it added 52,000 subscribers at its main cellular operations in February, bringing the total to 15.93 million. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/4/2002
  New J-Phone handsets will email video
Monday, March 4, 2002
  Summary J-Phone, Japan's fast-growing mobile phone group, is launching a new service today that will enable users to take short video clips with a camera-embedded mobile phone and send them to other mobile phone users. The service, known as "movie sha-mail," comes on the heels of its popular photo service using camera-embedded phones, known as "sha-mail." NTT DoCoMo, the market leader, and KDDI, the second-largest mobile phone operator, have recently introduced mobile video services, which allow only downloading, but not the sending of clips via email to other mobile users.(FT/Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 2/28/2002
  Vodafone not worried by Japan Telecom losses
Thursday, February 28, 2002
  Summary Mobile phone giant Vodafone Group says that forecasts revised upwards from its Japan Telecom unit will have no material impact on overall group results. Japan Telecom, Japan's third-largest telecoms carrier, earlier on Wednesday unveiled a sharp rise in its loss estimate for this business year. The company's wireless arm, J-Phone, made a similar move in January, halving capital spending for this business year to 300 billion yen. J-Phone has drawn a number of new users with its popular camera-attached phone and total subscribers came to 11.76 million in January, accounting for 17.4 percent of Japan's mobile market. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 2/7/2002
  AichiTelevision, J-Phone to Launch Interactive TV Programs
Thursday, February 7, 2002
  Summary AichiTelevision Broadcasting Co. and J-Phone have launched an interactive TV program called "Syamekke!" The audience participation program utilizes J-Phone's photo e-mail service, "Sha-mail," that allows users to send an e-mail with photo data taken by their phone's built-in camera. Sha-mail users send in photos and corresponding text messages appropriate to a weekly theme provided by AichiTelevision. The TV station plans to air the collected photos during the TV program. The collected pieces will be edited by category, and will also be made public on the menu of J-Phone's "J-Sky" Internet access services and on AichiTelevision's Web site. (Asia BizTech)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 2/6/2002
  Vodafone to exit lossmaking Japanese businesses
Wednesday, February 6, 2002
  Summary Japan Telecom, in which Vodafone owns a 66.7 per cent stake, is putting together a restructuring plan to pull out of unprofitable businesses. The plan, dubbed "Project V," aims to increase competitiveness by speeding up decision-making and becoming more profit-oriented. JT will reduce capital spending from a previously announced Y152.7bn ($1.15bn) to Y114.6b, following a first-half group loss of Y5.2bn. JT is expected to suffer a net loss of Y2bn in the year to March. (Financial Times)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 1/30/2002
  J-Phone cuts ad agencies to overhaul image
Wednesday, January 30, 2002
  Summary Vodaphone, the parent company of J-Phone, has decided that J-Phone needs to reduce capital costs and overhaul its brand image in Japan. It is reducing the number of ad agencies the company works with from five to one. Perhaps this is purely a cost-cutting move, because J-Phone is generally acknowledged in the industry to have a very savvy brand image. (M. Thuresson)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 1/8/2002
  Japanese camera phone sales reach 3 million
Tuesday, January 8, 2002
  Summary Inaccurate, grandiose statements litter this article. On the J-Phone camera-phones entering the British market through J-Phone parent Vodaphone: "...the fortunes of European mobile phone companies depend on the success of such cutting-edge devices." Actually, the cameras are very low resolution and J-Phone engineers shuddered at the thought of releasing such a low-quality camera, but market research showed Japanese wanted affordable photo mail even with low quality images. And the "fortune" of Vodaphone does not depend on getting perhaps a few million European buyers of these phones. Photo email is very cheap, thus the popularity. Data revenue from wireless content downloads is where the fortune lay. The article states the phones are hot in Japan "despite their high price tags between 40,000 yen and 50,000 yen." No, you can get the latest clamshell 65k color beauty for 10,000 yen-20,000 yen, and last year's original versions are free. (M. Thuresson)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/19/2001
  Vodafone New Group Regional Structure Highlights Asia, Japan
Wednesday, December 19, 2001
  Summary Since Vodaphone's 3.7 billion GBP acquisition of holdings in Japan's no. 3 operator J-Phone from BT earlier this year, the company has quietly been making a number of structural changes intended to streamline the Japanese operations and unleash its power in the Japanese market. This includes merging the four J-Phone companies into one (J-Phone Co. Ltd), appointing as the company President longtime telco Japan-hand Darryl Green (former AT&T Japan and Asia Global Crossing), and now redefining the corporate structure to spotlight its Japan investments. With J-Phone gaining on KDDI for the no. 2 wireless telco spot in Japan, packet data services to be launched soon and 3G on the way in 2002, the company should be working to showcase its capabilities as the jewel in the Vodaphone crown. (G. Richter)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/7/2001
  J-Phone unveils development tool for Java development
Friday, December 7, 2001
  Summary J-Phone said it would launch a Web site for a development tool for Java applications that run on packet communication-enabled mobile phones, which J-Phone plans to offer from January. On the web site called "J-Phone Developer Program," it will have technical materials, such as application programming interface (API) references, for the development of the Java application. The development tool will be free for downloading. However, for those Java applications developed by third party developers who plan to provide them to public users, it is necessary to upload the Java applications onto servers operated by J-Phone accredited companies. Due to security problems, application downloading is not available from unauthorized servers. (BizTech News Dept.)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/30/2001
  SkyGo takes mobile advertising to Japan
Friday, November 30, 2001
  Summary SkyGo announced an agreement with Japan Mobile Communications (J-Mobile) to deliver ads and marketing campaigns through J-Sky. J-Mobile is an independent wireless ad company established as a joint venture between mobile carrier J-Phone, a subsidiary of UK-based Vodafone, and Cyber Communications, inc. (cci), a Japanese Internet advertising firm. SkyGo said it will provide its Mobile Advertising Platform -- including the SkyServer and SkyStudio software programs -- to J-Mobile, enabling advertisers to manage, track and analyze targeted, interactive wireless marketing campaigns. With SkyServer, mobile content providers can deliver cross-media branding opportunities to advertisers, bundling Web, offline and wireless for integrated marketing campaigns. (WirelessNewsFactor.com)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/15/2001
  J-Phone to offer payment service for mobile shopping
Thursday, November 15, 2001
  Summary J-Phone Co. announced that it will begin a payment settlement service for purchases made by Internet-compatible mobile telephones. Users of the J-Phone Internet connection service register for the payment service, which is known as Sky Check. By inputting assigned passwords and other information, customers can easily settle bills by credit card for Internet mobile telephone purchases made from sites of stores that have contracted with J-Phone. Registration for and use of Sky Check is free. To start, 15 companies will participate in the payment settlement system, including Isetan Co. and Kodansha Ltd. At the end of November, KDDI Corp. plans to begin offering a similar service. (Nikkei)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 11/2/2001
  J-Phone unplugs exec's new job
Friday, November 2, 2001
  Summary Goichi Yoshizawa was on his way to becoming chairman of J-Phone Ltd., but was shunted off to the post of senior managing director after a remark harshly critical of the company's biggest shareholder, Britain's Vodafone, published in the Sept. 3rd issue of The Financial Times. The job Yoshizawa would have had went instead to Yoshiro Hayashi, former president of J-Phone East Co. The shuffle came a day before the J-Phone group of companies - J-Phone East, J-Phone West and J-Phone Central - were combined into a single unit. Yoshizawa said Vodafone ``is good at the money game but not in operations.'' Yoshizawa strongly denies making the statement and J-Phone officials said the top-level change had nothing to do with the article. (The Asahi Shimbun)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/18/2001
  J-Phone Introduces Disney Content Via J-Sky
Thursday, October 18, 2001
  Summary Walt Disney Internet Group and J-Phone have entered into a relationship to distribute Disney Mobile wireless content over J-Phone's J-Sky wireless-Internet platform in Japan. The Disney Mobile content is available now at ``Disney-J,'' an official site on the J-Sky platform. The agreement allows J-Phone's wireless Internet-enabled mobile phone customers to subscribe for downloadable content such as logos, screensavers, e-cards and ring tones, based on Disney's lineup of characters. The service also premiers ``Disney Onstage,'' which uses the photographic capabilities of some J-Phone mobile phones, superimposing Disney character frames around subscribers' personal photos. (PRNewswire) (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/15/2001
  J-Phone's Handsets with Built-in Cameras hit 2M Units
Monday, October 15, 2001
  Summary J-Phone, the first Japanese operator to release mobile phones with a built-in camera, has sold over 2 million such units November 2000. J-Phone and its group companies currently provide seven different models of the snap-and-send phones. J-Phone has marketed the multimedia phones aggressively in advertisement campaigns that feature prominent Japanese celebrities such as Wakana Sakai and Norika Fujiwara. These efforts have successfully raised public awareness of mobile phones with a built-in camera, known as "sha-mail." More than half of new J-Phone subscribers choose handsets with built-in cameras that utiilize the "sha-mail" service. (Nikkei Mechanical)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 10/11/2001
  Vodafone gets enough acceptances to control Japan Telecom
Thursday, October 11, 2001
  Summary The world's biggest mobile phone operator Vodafone said on Wednesday that it had been tendered the 21.7 percent of Japan Telecom shares it needed to gain control of the company. Its offer for shares would remain open until the close of business on Thursday in Japan, it said, and buys from tendering shareholders would be scaled back pro-rata, with the number of shares needed now being exceeded. Vodafone's holding will now increase to 66.7 percent from 45 percent, giving it a controlling level. The prize for the company is Japan Telecom's J-Phone mobile operation, Japan's third biggest. (FT Marketwatch)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/28/2001
  Central Japan Railway may sell Japan Telecom stake
Friday, September 28, 2001
  Summary Central Japan Railway (JR Tokai), the fourth-largest shareholder of Japan Telecom, said on Thursday it was considering selling all of its 1.18 percent stake in Japan's third-largest telecoms company. British mobile giant Vodafone Group last week launched a tender offer for up to 21.7 percent of Japan Telecom shares. It already owns 45 percent of the company. Japan Telecom's third-largest shareholder, West Japan Railway (JR West), said on Thursday it would sell all of its 1.6 percent stake in Japan Telecom. Vodafone is offering 450,000 yen ($3,818) per share, compared with Thursday's close of 370,000 yen. JR West said the proceeds from the sale would be used to improve its balance sheet. JR West and JR Tokai sold part of their stakes in Japan Telecom, 8.6 percent and 6.4 percent respectively, to Vodafone in December for 249.2 billion yen. Japan Telecom is an affiliate carrier of the railway companies and has an optical fibre network along the railway lines of JR companies. Vodafone said its tender would raise its stake in Japan Telecom by between 10 and 21.7 percent to up to 66.7 percent, which also would give Vodafone a 70-percent economic interest in Japan Telecom's wireless division, J-Phone Communications. Vodafone has said it was negotiating with East Japan Railway Co (JR East) to buy at least two thirds of JR East's 15.1 percent stake in Japan Telecom. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/27/2001
  Japan Telecom to Enhance Intranet Access Security from J-Sky
Thursday, September 27, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom announced that it will extend the security function of "J-Sky Access Secured Network Service," a connection service for corporate intranets from "J-Sky" phones of J-Phone Communications. Newly added to this service is a terminal authentication option, an authentication function with a unique terminal identifier for each cell phone set. This option service starts on Oct. 1. J-Sky Access is a direct connection service to corporate intranets, using "J-Sky" browser phone services provided by J-Phone. This service is available on each communication service by Japan Telecom including IP-VPN (IP-based closed network) networks, frame relay and leased lines. Currently, the J-Sky Access realizes security via a user authentication system, where users have an authentication server in place and perform authentication using pre-registered IDs and passwords. Services similar to J-Sky Access include "EZweblink" provided by KDDI Corp. using "EZweb" of au mobile phones, and "i-mode IP-CUG Solution" provided by NTTPC Communications Inc. using "i-mode" of NTT DoCoMo. (Nikkei Communications)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/25/2001
  Vodafone plans Japanese phone sale
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
  Summary British telecoms heavyweight Vodafone Group Plc is planning to sell the fixed-line business of Japan Telecom for up to three billion pounds, according to the UK's Observer newspaper on Sunday. On Thursday, Vodafone said it would pay up to 1.8 billion pounds ($2.64 billion) cash in an agreed offer to take control of its key Japanese venture, Japan Telecom . Vodafone, the world's largest cellphone group, said its tender would raise its stake in Japan's third biggest telecoms group by between 10 and 21.7 percent to up to 66.7 percent. The company, which is a pure mobile phone operator, is then expected to sell Japan Telecom's fixed-line business -- possibly to British rival Cable and Wireless Plc, sources told Reuters. The newspaper said a number of Japanese trade buyers had expressed an interest, while Cable & Wireless could also be interested. Vodafone Chief Executive Chris Gent told a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday that despite "deep discussions", he had made no definitive plans yet. The Observer said a deal was not imminent, partly because of the volatile state of the markets and partly because Vodafone wanted to improve the performance of the business. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/21/2001
  Vodafone bids $2.64 bln for control of Japan Telecom
Friday, September 21, 2001
  Summary Cellphone giant Vodafone Group Plc said on Thursday it would pay up to 1.8 billion pounds ($2.64 billion) cash in an agreed offer to take control of its key Japanese venture, Japan Telecom. Vodafone, the world's largest cellphone group, said its tender would raise its stake in Japan's third biggest telecoms group by between 10 and 21.7 percent to up to 66.7 percent. The deal will be slightly dilutive to earnings per share before goodwill and exceptionals in 2003 and neutral in 2004. The 450,000 yen ($3,834) per share offer, which is expected to be completed on October 26, is set to give British-based Vodafone a 70 percent economic interest in Japan Telecom's (JT) <9434> fast-growing mobile business, J-Phone Communications and allow it to take on Japan's top cellphone group NTT DoCoMo. The deal has been struck at a 29 percent premium to JT's closing share price of 350,000 yen on September 19 and a 37 percent premium to the average closing share price over the last 20 days. However, in a global bear market that has seen telecoms shares slump, JT's stock has slid 20 percent this year alone. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/20/2001
  Vodafone may secure Japan Telecom this week
Thursday, September 20, 2001
  Summary Vodafone Group Plc may this week unveil a bid that gives it control of Japan Telecom in a deal struck in the teeth of the most prolonged and precipitous plunge in telecoms shares in history. But the world's largest cellphone group is one of the few in the industry with the financial muscle to secure an all-cash bid for an additional 21.7 percent stake in its key Japanese asset, after a 74 percent drop in European telecoms shares since March 2000. Some analysts suggest Vodafone might pay around $2.5 billion, or some 400,000 yen per share, to raise its stake in Japan's third biggest telecoms group to 66.7 percent. But others say a move that also gives Vodafone control of fast-growing mobile unit J-Phone Communications is more likely to be priced nearer 500,000 yen -- a 40 percent premium to Japan Telecom's closing share price of 350,000 yen on Wednesday -- in a deal valued at around 432 billion yen ($3.67 billion). Japan Telecom's stock rallying 38 percent since last Tuesday, valuing the group at 1.14 trillion yen ($9.68 billion). The deal looks set to be struck just one month before Japan, the world's most advanced telecoms market, readies for the first, commercial launch of speedy, third-generation (3G) mobile Internet and multimedia services -- more than one year ahead of Europe. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/19/2001
  Vodafone Launches Bid for Control of Japan Telecom
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
  Summary British mobile phone giant Vodafone Group Plc launched a bid on Monday to gain control of Japan Telecom Co Ltd., taking another step to become the top provider of advanced global wireless services. That would put Vodafone, already the top shareholder in Japan's third-largest carrier Japan Telecom, into direct competition with NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's top mobile operator and its main challenger on the global stage. The world's largest wireless carrier said it was discussing with East Japan Railway Co (JR East) the possibility of buying all or part of its 15.1 percent stake, the second-largest. Japan Telecom shares closed four percent higher, far outpacing its rivals Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT), Japan's top carrier, and number-two KDDI Corp. Vodafone rose six percent. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun business newspaper said at the weekend that Vodafone will invest about 220 billion yen ($1.85 billion) to buy extra shares in Japan Telecom. A larger stake would allow Vodafone to remove Japan Telecom executives and to sell fixed-line operations it considers unprofitable. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/17/2001
  Vodafone aiming for control of Japan Telecom
Monday, September 17, 2001
  Summary British mobile phone giant Vodafone Group plans to raise its stake in Japan Telecom Co Ltd to 66.7 percent from 45 percent through a tender offer sometime this month, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Vodafone will invest about 220 billion yen ($1.85 billion) to buy extra shares in Japan Telecom, Japan's third-largest telecoms firm, in a bid to secure management control and give it a free hand to merge or sell some Japan Telecom operations, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily said. Vodafone, the world's largest wireless carrier, has made no secret of its desire to control Japan's Telecom's crown jewel and wireless unit, J-Phone Communications Co Ltd. The British company already is set to hold a direct 39.67 percent stake in J-Phone after it is consolidated into a single company, instead of four separate units, on November 1. Shares in Japan Telecom, which offers fixed-line calling and Internet services, closed up 7.3 percent at 294,000 yen on Friday. Vodafone will try to secure a 66.7 percent to enable the firm to decide Japan Telecom's management strategy independently. Japan Telecom's wireless unit J-Phone plans to launch 3G services next June. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/13/2001
  Merger of J-Phone Communications & J-Phone Operating Co.s
Thursday, September 13, 2001
  Summary Vodafone Group Plc announced that the proposed merger of J-Phone Communications Co. Ltd., J-Phone East Co. Ltd., J-Phone Central Co. Ltd., and J-Phone West Co. Ltd., that was announced on 24 August, 2001 has now been approved by shareholders at the respective EGMs of the companies in Japan today. Subject to regulatory clearance, the merger will become effective on 1 November 2001. Vodafone's direct ownership in the new company, J-Phone Co., Ltd will be 39.67% and its economic interest will be approximately 60% after taking into account Vodafone's indirect interest through its 45% stake in Japan Telecom. (PR Newswire)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/12/2001
  J-Phone Gaining on Au in New Mobile Phone Subscribers
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
  Summary The number of subscribers to J-Phone Group's cellular phone services is catching up with the au ("ay-you") Group in Japan. According to data on the number of new subscribers to cellular phone services in Japan at the end of August 2001, made public by the Telecommunications Carriers Association (TCA), J-Phone subscribers registered 10,925,800, while au's subscribers registered 11,697,800. At the end of May, the number of subscribers to au exceeded those of J-Phone by more than 1,082,000. However, J-Phone has since gained new subscribers at nearly twice the rate of KDDI, narrowing the gap to 772,000. At this pace, J-Phone could be Japan's no. 2 carrier by April 2002. This fall, au plans to take the offensive by launching new services such as location information service using GPS, and next-generation technology.Japan's total number of subscribers of all mobile phone operators was 64,713,600, up by 533,400. The total number of subscribers to browser phone services that allow users to access the Internet via cellular phone reached 43,549,900 for NTT DoCoMo's "i-mode," au/TU-KA's "EZweb," and J-Phone's "J-Sky" combined. (Nikkei Communications)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 9/4/2001
  Japan's J-Phone Attacks its Top Investor, Vodafone
Tuesday, September 4, 2001
  Summary Britain's Vodafone was criticized by the new head of J-Phone, the Japanese mobile phone operator in which it has a 46 per cent stake. Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile company, ``is good at the money game but not in operations,'' Goichi Yoshizawa, J-Phone's chief executive-elect, said in an interview with the Financial Times. Yoshizawa said it was a shame Vodafone had not learned more about marketing from Orange, the mobile company it owned briefly before selling to France Telecom. He said J-Phone needed to cut costs and improve marketing to compete with rival NTT DoCoMo, but that Vodafone had little to offer in terms of sharpening J-Phone's marketing. He said the alliance with Vodafone would bring big advantages in terms of lower costs from equipment suppliers and a greater attraction for content companies.``In forming alliances with infrastructure and handset vendors, Vodafone's (more than 200 million global subscribers) offer us tremendous bargaining power,'' he said.``Content providers which used to supply DoCoMo will have to think about supplying us because of Vodafone.'' (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/31/2001
  Phone Group Companies to Merge in Nov., Challenge NTT DoCoMo
Friday, August 31, 2001
  Summary J-Phone Group's operating companies will merge into a single entity on Nov. 1. The J-Phone Group seeks to improve its operational efficiency, upgrade its services by integrating regional companies, and strengthen its ties with Vodafone Group Plc. of the U.K., all in an attempt to compete more effectively with NTT DoCoMo Inc. and the KDDI Group. The new company will be capitalized at 26,791.8 million yen. Japan Telecom Co., Ltd. will have a 45.05 percent stake and Vodafone will have a 39.67 percent interest in the new company. The mobile phone operator expects it can improve its operational efficiency by 20-30 percent by reducing capital investments after the merger. As for the third-generation mobile phone services slated to begin in fiscal 2002, the company also plans to share services and technological specifications with Vodafone. Before challenging NTT DoCoMo, J-Phone's current objective is to obtain the second position, currently held by the KDDI Group. (BizTech News Dept.)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/27/2001
  Four J-Phone Companies to Merge, Save Op Costs
Monday, August 27, 2001
  Summary The four companies that make up Japanese mobile-phone group J-Phone have agreed to merge to improve their competitiveness, British telecommunications company Vodafone PLC said Friday. The four companies - holding company J-Phone Communications Co. Ltd. and regional firms J-Phone East Co. Ltd., J-Phone Central Co. Ltd. and J-Phone West Co. Ltd. - will form a single company, J-Phone Co. Ltd. Japan Telecom and Vodafone will be major stakeholders in the new company. J-Phone Communications president Koichi Sakata said the merger could reduce the new company's overall operational costs by between 20 percent to 30 percent a year and would help it compete with rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KDDI Corp. Following the merger, Japan Telecom will own 45.05 percent of J-Phone Co., Vodafone will own 39.67 percent and other shareholders will hold the remainder. Vodafone also holds 20.3 percent indirectly through its holdings in Japan Telecom, for a total holding in J-Phone Co. of about 60 percent. (AP)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/20/2001
  KDDI, J-Phone enabling users to access DoCoMo's i-mode
Monday, August 20, 2001
  Summary Users of J-Phone Communications's J-Sky wireless Internet service can now browse content designed for the rival i-mode service using their J-Sky handsets. Rival operator KDDI also began offering similar access to i-mode sites via its EZweb service earlier this summer. Unlike KDDI, however, J-Phone plans to charge for "i-watcher," a fee-based service that translates content from i-mode sites into a format accessible to J-Sky users. J-Sky users have long been able to see some i-mode content, but this capability is enhanced with the new service. Japan Telecom has provided access to 150 free i-mode sites through the service so far. By the first quarter of 2002, it plans to increase the number of accessible sites to 500, including subscription sites. As of early August, DoCoMo's i-mode service had 1,820 official Web sites for its users, compared to 841 Web sites available for J-Sky users. J-Sky users must register to receive the service, which costs 100 yen (US$0.84) per month. Japan Telecom hopes i-watcher will attract 10,000 subscribers this year. (CNN.com/MMJ)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/14/2001
  Vodafone seeks to boost J-Phone margins
Tuesday, August 14, 2001
  Summary Britain's Vodafone Group is discussing ways to improve the operating performance of J-Phone ahead of a likely move to take direct control of the Japanese mobile phone firm, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The newspaper said Vodafone, which puts its stake in J-Phone at up to 60 percent through various shareholdings, was seeking to bring operating profit margins at the Japanese group in line with its own. Another British newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, said Vodafone was shifting its focus to Japan during the next year because of increasing gloom about the immediate prospects for developing third generation mobile phone services in Europe. The paper said it understood that Chief Executive Chris Gent believed there were better revenue opportunities for mobile data services in Japan. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/13/2001
  Vodafone serious in Japan, moves to take control of J-Phone
Monday, August 13, 2001
  Summary Vodafone is in talks to restructure its Japanese investments in a move that will give it control of J-Phone, Japan's second largest mobile telephone operator, and make it one of Japan's most significant foreign investors. The deal will involve unravelling the complex web of holdings acquired by the UK group, which has already invested around $10bn in J-Phone and Japan Telecom. Vodafone is also expected to swap its shares in JT for an increased stake in J-Phone, leaving Vodafone with a controlling stake of around 67 per cent in J-Phone's mobile business. The deal could involve payments of up to $2bn to Japan Telecom, which has an ambitious spending programme in one of the world's most important mobile markets. CEO Sir Chris Gent is convinced that Japan will lead the way in the development of new third generation mobile communications networks and services, and that it is now a year ahead of Europe in mobile technology, with the US lagging two years behind. (Electronic Telegraph)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/8/2001
  J-Phone users get access to DoCoMo's i-mode
Wednesday, August 8, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co said on Tuesday it will start offering services next week that would allow its mobile phone users to access rival NTT DoCoMo Inc's Web sites. By expanding its content services, Japan Telecom's mobile arm, J-Phone Communications Co Ltd, aims to shore up its subscription base, which accounted for 16.7 percent of Japan's mobile market in July.J-Phone currently offers a mobile Internet-enabled service, ``J-Sky'', under which 7.89 million users can access 850 Web sites. NTT DoCoMo's ``i-mode'' Internet access service has about 25 million users who access as many as 48,000 sites. Starting on August 15, J-Sky users will be able to reach 150 i-mode Web sites. J-Phone aims to expand the number of accessible i-mode sites to 500 by the end of March next year. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/6/2001
  Nokia to supply WCDMA network to Japan's J-Phone
Monday, August 6, 2001
  Summary Telecom equipment group Nokia has agreed to supply Japan's third-largest mobile carrier carrier J-Phone with third-generation (3G) WCDMA network equipment.``The contract provides Nokia with additional business cooperation with J-Phone Group, positioning Nokia as one of the major infrastructure vendors in the Japanese 3G market,'' it said in a statement. Nokia, which gave no financial details of the deal, said it would supply a mobile-packet switching system and radio-access network to J-Phone Communications Co Ltd, which is majority-owned by Japan Telecom and Vodaphone. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 8/1/2001
  Vodafone aims for J-Phone listing, details 3G steps
Wednesday, August 1, 2001
  Summary Vodafone Group Plc, the world's top mobile phone company, said on Monday it may list Japan's third-largest mobile carrier, J-Phone Communications Co Ltd, after streamlining its structure and service offerings. Britain's Vodafone added Japan to its global empire with a deal in May to boost its stake in J-Phone's parent, Japan Telecom Co Ltd , to 45 percent and also holds a controlling stake of about 60 percent in J-Phone.``We must learn to walk before we run. The first thing is to bring the regional companies together,'' said Vodafone Chief Executive Chris Gent, adding that this would rule out a public listing of J-Phone as a ``medium-term possibility.'' (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/16/2001
  J-Phone says rebounding from KDDI sales campaign
Monday, July 16, 2001
  Summary J-Phone Communications Co Ltd, Japan's third-largest mobile operator, said on Friday its new subscriber numbers were recovering after being hit by an aggressive price-cutting campaign from KDDI New subscribers to ``au'' (pronounced ay-you), a cellphone unit of number two wireless carrier KDDI, fell 30 percent in June while J-Phone added 198,400 new users in the same month, up 32 percent from the subscriber growth rate in May. J-Phone, which had 10.52 million subscribers at the end of June, has been competing head-on with KDDI for younger users. The largest chunk of the market is dominated by top mobile firm NTT DoCoMo Inc. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/13/2001
  Japan Telecom reaffirms goals under blanket of Vodafone
Friday, July 13, 2001
  Summary A recent takeover by Britain's Vodafone of Japan Telecom and its mobile branch J-Phone mean the pair are better equiped to do battle with rival companies, said their president Koichi Sakata Thursday. A decision by Vodafone to increase a stake in Japan's second ranking telecom firm to 45 percent from 25 percent means "our structure is now much more simple and the decision making is much more efficient," Sakata told a news conference in Tokyo. The world's largest telecom decided in May to pay 652 billion yenbillion pounds, 5.34 billion dollars) for BT's 20 percent stakes in Japan Telecom and J-Phone. With Vodafone on board, Japan Telecom has found a good partner because one company alone will not be able to compete, Sakata said. (AFP)  
 
   
  Japan Telecom Sakata Says Need More Debate On NTT Revamp
Friday, July 13, 2001
  Summary More debate about another reorganization of Japan's dominant telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. is needed, Japan Telecom Co. Chairman Koichi Sakata said Thursday. Coming ahead of the government's implementation of telecommunications business laws to deal with "dominant" carriers this December, Sakata's remarks are likely to increase pressure on the government to break up NTT, analysts said. "This (implementation of these laws) doesn't mean market principles have been introduced. I still have doubts," Sakata said. Last month, the government passed telecommunications business laws imposing stronger restrictions on telecom firms that have dominant control of their markets. (Dow Jones)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/3/2001
  Japan Telecom Revises up Net Profit Forecast on Share Sales
Tuesday, July 3, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co. (TSE:9434) announced Monday it expects parent-only net profit to jump 130 per cent year on year to 28 billion yen (US$224.8 million) in the year through March 2002. It had earlier forecast a 6 billion yen profit. The upward revision comes as the company will post an extraordinary profit of 39.3 billion yen from selling shares in cellular phone subsidiary J-Phone group to British Telecommunications Plc last Friday. Japan Telecom sold British Telecom a 5 per cent stake each in three regional firms of the J-Phone group for a total of 68 billion yen. (Asia Pulse)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/27/2001
  J-Phone orders Ericsson mobile technology
Wednesday, June 27, 2001
  Summary J-Phone has placed an order with Ericsson for its Packet Personal Digital Cellular (PPDC) mobile technology. J-Phone is currently upgrading its network to packet data and PPDC is generally known as the Japanese equivalent of GPRS. As a result of the order, Ericsson has become the Japanese company's primary supplier of infrastructure. Ericsson has worked with J-Phone, which has more than 10 million subscribers, for nearly 10 years. Its customer base corresponds to a market share of about 16 percent, which makes J-Phone the third largest Japanese mobile operator. (Ericsson)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/19/2001
  J-Phone to Cut Mobile-Phone Rates, Follows DoCoMo
Tuesday, June 19, 2001
  Summary Phone Group, Japan's No. 3 mobile-phone company, will cut call charges by as much as 8 percent next month, competing with market leader NTT DoCoMo Inc. following rate cuts by DoCoMo earlier this month. J-Phone will charge subscribers 9,200 yen ($74.74) a month for 260 minutes of talk time, up from 240 minutes currently. Phone has a 16 percent share of Japan's $70 billion mobile- phone market, compared with DoCoMo's 60 percent share. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/18/2001
  Japan Telecom's mobile unit to cut rates
Monday, June 18, 2001
  Summary A mobile phone unit of Japan Telecom Co, Japan's third-largest carrier, said on Monday it would cut its cellular service charges from July to compete against industry leader NTT DoCoMo Inc . The Nihon Keizai Shimbun financial daily said the rate cuts would cost the group about 10 billion yen ($81.40 million) in revenues for the current year to next March. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/15/2001
  J-Phone to spend $5.74b on 3G
Friday, June 15, 2001
  Summary Japanfs number three mobile operator, J-Phone, plans to spend 700 billion yen ($5.74 billion) on its 3G roll-out next year, according to senior managing director for J-Phone West, Shigenobu Kuroda. J-Phone received a 3G license last year from the Japanese government along with NTT DoCoMo and KDDI.(telecomasia)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/14/2001
  Vodafone Has No Plan To Rebrand J-Phone
Thursday, June 14, 2001
  Summary Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) has shown no intention of re-branding Japan's J-Phone after taking de facto control of the Japanese mobile provider, Koichi Sakata, the president of J-Phone Communications Ltd., said Wednesday. U.K.-based Vodafone, the world's biggest wireless operator, has spread its brand and its mobile Internet portal globally through a lightning series of acquisitions. (Dow Jones)  
 
   
  J-Phone may be spun off from Japan Telecom
Thursday, June 14, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co Ltd, the country's third-biggest carrier, may spin off its lucrative wireless arm J-Phone, the president of J-Phone East Co Ltd told Reuters on Wednesday. Yoshiro Hayashi said: "That choice exists" when asked about the possibility of J-Phone going public and separating from Japan Telecom, but later said he had no firm knowledge of a deal. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/13/2001
  Japan Telecom hooks up with China Telecom
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
  Summary Long-distance phone carrier Japan Telecom Co. Ltd. said Tuesday it had agreed to forge ties with China's biggest telecoms company China Telecom. Japan Telecom president Haruo Murakami and China Telecom president Zhou Deqiang met in Beijing on Thursday last week and signed a memorandum of understanding to build links, the Japanese firm's spokeswoman Kazumi Narihiro said. (AFP)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/12/2001
  J-Phone Launches Java Line of Mobiles
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
  Summary Japan's third-largest mobile operator J-Phone has launched Java- enabled handsets for its J-Sky mobile Internet service subscribers, five months after NTT DoCoMo, the country's dominant mobile carrier, introduced Java-enabled mobile phones for iMode users. (ScreamingMedia, South China Morning Post)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/11/2001
  Are you ready for 3D cell phones?
Monday, June 11, 2001
  Summary A scantily clad, Barbie doll-like figure is the star attraction of the first phone capable of displaying 3D images--and she's raising the question of whether 3D can spark sales in the industry. (ZDNet)  
 
   
  A New Dimension
Monday, June 11, 2001
  Summary IT'S A GIMMICK with a higher calling. In late June, J-Phone, Japan's third-largest mobile carrier, plans to release the world's first handset displaying 3-D images on screen. While 3-D images--which allow users to view objects from all angles on their 2-D screen--may sound like a lightweight feature, it's precisely that kind of content that has made wireless Internet-enabled phones such a hit in Japan. It also demonstrates how new capabilities are making cellphones more powerful. (Far Eastern Economic Review)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/7/2001
  J-Phone joins Java joust
Thursday, June 7, 2001
  Summary J-Phone will on Tuesday unveil its Java-enabled phone, unleashing what is expected to be a fierce battle in the Japanese market to provide advanced mobile internet services. (Financial Times)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/6/2001
  J-Phone To Launch Java-Based Handsets In Japan This Month
Wednesday, June 6, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co.'s J-Phone Group said Tuesday it will launch Java-enabled mobile phone handsets in Japan this month, in a move to increase its share of Japan's mobile phone market. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 6/4/2001
  J-Phone To Research Linking Cellular Phone with Wireless LAN
Monday, June 4, 2001
  Summary From the summer of 2001 until the spring of 2002, J-Phone East Japan Co., Ltd. will conduct research and development for a service to link cellular phones with IEEE802.11b wireless LANs.It expects to sell contents at public spaces such as restaurants and stores, so-called "hot spots," and also to offer Internet connection services. (Nikkei Electronics)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/28/2001
  Risks lurk as Japan carriers reap wireless profits
Monday, May 28, 2001
  Summary Japan's big telecoms carriers all posted higher profits last year as fast-growing wireless services took up the slack from faltering fixed-line income, but analysts warned of risks to that equation as the mobile business matures. (Reuters)  
 
   
  Japan Telecom Challenges NTT with Own Fixed-Line Net Service
Monday, May 28, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co., Ltd. plans to launch "J-Web by ODN," a service for Internet connection from fixed-line home telephones, on July 13. The service will challenge the "L-Mode" service of NTT East Corp. and NTT West Corp., which will be launched in June. (Nikkei Computer)  
 
   
  Japan's Taito To Offer Content On Java Cell Phones
Monday, May 28, 2001
  Summary Japanese commercial game machine manufacturer Taito Corp. said Friday that it will distribute content offerings such as games on J-Phone group mobile phones compatible with the Java programming language, according to the Monday edition of the Nikkei Business Daily. (Dow Jones)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/25/2001
  Mobile growth rings up profit for Japan Telecom
Friday, May 25, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co Ltd. said on Thursday it racked up a solid profit rise last year, helped by growth in its mobile business, fuelling hope that its British partner Vodafone may have backed a winner. (Reuters)  
 
   
  Four new execs for Japan Telecom
Friday, May 25, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co. announced Thursday that four executives from Vodafone Group PLC of Britain will be members of its board, which is expected to be approved at the shareholders meeting on June 28. (Japan Times)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/24/2001
  Views split on 'Vodafone effect' for Japan Telecom
Thursday, May 24, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co. , the nation's number three telecoms firm, has a foreign partner with deep pockets but analysts are split over whether British giant Vodafone Group Plc can help it boost profits. (Reuters)  
 
   
  Japan Telecom mobile unit sees brisk 2001/02 sales
Thursday, May 24, 2001
  Summary J-Phone East Co, a wireless unit of Japan's number three telecoms firm Japan Telecom Co Ltd (9434), said on Wednesday it expects sales to grow 37 percent this year as its mobile Web services gain a deeper foothold. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/18/2001
  Japan Telecom, Others Offer Intranet Link Service by J-Sky
Friday, May 18, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co., Ltd., three companies of J-Phone Group and Telecom Service Co., Ltd. announced a connection service called "J-Sky Access Secured Network Service" for their "J-Sky" Internet connection service-compliant mobile phones for corporate intranets.(BizTech News Dept.)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/15/2001
  Japan Telecom Mulls Structural Changes For J-Phone Group
Tuesday, May 15, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co. is studying the best structure for its Japan-based mobile phone arm J-Phone Group, but specifics haven't been decided yet, a company spokesman said Monday. Kyodo News reported Monday evening that Japan Telecom has entered a full-scale study to merge four J-Phone Group companies - holding unit J-Phone Communications and three regional units. (Reuters)  
 
   
  Denso, Kenwood to Jointly Develop Mobile Phones to Cut Costs
Tuesday, May 15, 2001
  Summary Denso Corp., a Toyota Motor Corp. affiliate, said it will team up with audio equipment maker Kenwood Corp. to develop and produce mobile phone handsets for Japan Telecom Co.'s J-Phone wireless unit. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
  Japan Telecom To Offer New Corporate Intranet Service
Tuesday, May 15, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co. (J.JTC or 9434), the J-Phone Group and Telecom Service Co. Ltd. will offer a new "J-SKY Access" secured network service from May 30 which will enable corporate users of J-Phone mobile phone handsets to directly access the intranets of their companies. (Dow Jones)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/14/2001
  J-Phone Wins Web Domain Name Dispute, Files for Compensation
Monday, May 14, 2001
  Summary J-Phone East Japan Co., Ltd. has won a court case in which it had sought to prevent food importer-exporter Taiko Tsusho from using a Web site with the "j-phone.co.jp" domain name. (Nikkei Computer)  
 
   
  J-Phone Keeps J-Sky Network Closed, Fears Revenue Decrease
Monday, May 14, 2001
  Summary J-Phone Group, a cellular phone service unit of Japan Telecom Co., Ltd., disclosed its intention to keep its J-Sky service's network a closed one for the time being. (Nikkei New Media)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/11/2001
  J-Phone to Raise 9.6 Billion Yen Through Sale of New Shares
Friday, May 11, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co. unit J-Phone Communications Ltd. said it will raise 9.6 billion yen ($78.6 million) to finance research and development of faster wireless Internet services.(Bloomberg)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/9/2001
  Vodafone Becomes Japan Telecom's Largest Stockholder
Wednesday, May 9, 2001
  Summary Britain's Vodafone Group, which operates a mobile phone business in Europe, said it has agreed to acquire the shares of Japan Telecom Co., Ltd. and the J-Phone Group held by British Telecommunications Plc.(BizTech News Dept.)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/4/2001
  Vodafone Buys Japan Telecom Stakes
Friday, May 4, 2001
  Summary First AT&T and British Telecom were going to merge. Then they both went on buying sprees to expand their services beyond long distance. Now both are drowning in debt and must raise money. Both are selling their stakes in Japan Telecom, a rising DoCoMo competitor, to Vodafone. (Motley Fool)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/2/2001
  Vodafone and BT debt in the balance after Japan deal
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
  Summary Vodafone's latest deal in Japan may show that its rival BT, has more in common with the company than previously thought. (Financial Times)  
 
   
  Japan Telecom shares soar on BT's stake sale talk
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
  Summary Shares in Japan Telecom Co shot up in early Wednesday trade after British Telecommunications Plc revealed talks to sell its stake in Japan's number three telecoms firm to Vodafone Group Plc. The stock rose 17.8 percent to a year high of 2.64 million yen in the morning, while the benchmark Nikkei was down 0.05 percent at 14,418.(Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/1/2001
  Vodafone, BT agree to deal on J-phone holdings
Tuesday, May 1, 2001
  Summary British Telecommunications Plc has agreed to sell its stake in Japan Telecom and mobile affiliate J-Phone to arch-rival Vodafone for more than $4.3 billion to help cut its debt, the Financial Times said.(Reuters)  
 
   
  AT&T Closes Sale of Japan Telecom Stake to Vodafone: Update
Tuesday, May 1, 2001
  Summary AT&T Corp., the largest U.S. long-distance telephone company, completed the sale of its 10 percent stake in Japan Telecom Co. to Vodafone Group Plc for $1.35 billion in cash. The proceeds will be used to reduce debt. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
  BT to sell telecoms stakes in Japan to rival Vodafone
Tuesday, May 1, 2001
  Summary British Telecommunications has agreed to sell its hard-won foothold in Japan in the second high-profile sacrifice stemming from its 30bn ($43bn) debt problem. (Financial Times)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/27/2001
  J-Phone to Develop Electronic Settlement Service for Browser
Friday, April 27, 2001
  Summary Phone Group said it plans to jointly develop a new online settlement system for its J-Sky Internet-capable mobile browser phones with partners Hewlett-Packard Japan Ltd. and credit card company JCB Co., Ltd. (Nikkei Communications)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/25/2001
  Japan Telecom expected to post huge yearly profit growth
Wednesday, April 25, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co. Ltd., Japan's third-largest carrier, will see its group operating profit for the year that ended in March jump 310 percent to about 115 billion yen ($947 million), a newspaper said on Wednesday. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/23/2001
  Japan may be BT's last bargaining chip
Monday, April 23, 2001
  Summary A key 20 percent stake in Japan Telecom, Japan's third-biggest carrier, may be the only bargaining chip British Telecommunications Plc's warring chiefs have to help slash a 30 billion pound ($43 billion) debt pile. (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/21/2001
  BT makes a fight of J-Phone
Saturday, April 21, 2001
  Summary Fierce domestic rivalry between British Telecommunications and Vodafone, its more successful UK competitor, has led to spilled blood on many international battlefields. (Financial Times)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/20/2001
  Doubts over future of BT's J-Phone stake remain
Friday, April 20, 2001
  Summary BT looks set to clarify its strategic position in the Japanese market at its upcoming 17 May full-year results announcement. Recent speculation has it that the U.K. operator will sell its 20% stake in Japan Telecom's J-Phone mobile subsidiary to U.K.-based mobile competitor Vodafone. (Totaltele.com)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/19/2001
  Sega, J-Phone to Jointly Develop Games for Java Phones
Thursday, April 19, 2001
  Summary Sega Corp. and J-Phone Group companies J-Phone East Co., Ltd., J-Phone Central Co., Ltd. and J-Phone West Co., Ltd. said they will jointly develop games for cell phones based on Java technology. (Nikkei Electronics)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/18/2001
  Sega, J-Phone ally in wireless games
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
  Summary Under the deal, Sega will develop Java-based game technology and web content for J-Phone's new cell phones, which are expected to hit Japanese store shelves in June, both companies said in a statement. (CBS MarketWatch.com)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/17/2001
  Toyota Sells Stake in Cell Phone Companies
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
  Summary Toyota Motor Corp. has sold its stakes in the three companies that comprise Japan's No. 2 cellphone carrier J-Phone Communications Co. for undisclosed terms to Japan Telecom Co. As part of its strategy to develop computerized car systems, Japan's biggest automaker has been investing in telecommunications companies. (AP)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/16/2001
  Toyota sells J-Phone stakes to Japan Telecom
Monday, April 16, 2001
  Summary Toyota Motor Corp. has sold its entire holdings in three J-Phone group firms to Japan Telecom Co. Ltd. by the end of March, Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily said on Monday. (Reuters)  
 
   
  Cyber Communications and J-Phone to set up mobile ad JV
Monday, April 16, 2001
  Summary Cyber Communications Inc. (J.CYC or 4788) and the J-Phone Group said Monday they will set up a joint venture in May to provide advertising services via the Internet for mobile phone users. (Dow Jones)  
 
   
  BT spends 382m in Japan despite UK debt
Monday, April 16, 2001
  Summary BT IS set to spend almost 400 million increasing stakes in Japanese mobile companies, even as it makes little progress in its efforts to cut a 30 billion debt mountain. (The Scotsman)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/14/2001
  British Telecom Takes Option to Buy 68 Bln Stake in J-Phone
Saturday, April 14, 2001
  Summary British Telecommunications Plc. has agreed to buy call options on shares in the three cellular phone units of Japan Telecom Co. for 68 billion yen ($547.8 million), Japan's third-biggest telephone company said. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/11/2001
  J-Phone Mobile Subscribers Break 10 Million Mark
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
  Summary J-Phone Group announced that the company's mobile subscription base has now exceeded 10 million customers as of April 6, 2001. (Yahoo)  
 
   
  Nokia Adopts Sanyo's OEM Folding Mobile Phone for J-Phone
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
  Summary Nokia of Finland will launch a new cellular telephone, J-NM01, with a color liquid-crystal panel, through J-Phone West Co., Ltd. (Nikkei Electronics)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 4/3/2001
  Will J-Phone Provide Vodafone's Foil Against DoCoMo?
Tuesday, April 3, 2001
  Summary Vodafone's acquisition of Japan's third largest mobile operator has taken the battle for global mobile carrier domination into DoCoMo's backyard. Will Vodafone's M&A strategy produce the goods? (MforMobile)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/24/2001
  J-Phone Strengthens PDC Services After IMT-2000 Postponement
Saturday, March 24, 2001
  Summary At the beginning of March, Japan Telecom Group said it would postpone the launch of IMT-2000, a next-generation mobile communication service that had been planned for October 2001 in three metropolitan regions, to June 2002. (AsiaBizTech)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/22/2001
  J-Phone to release new cell phones with 3-D graphics
Thursday, March 22, 2001
  Summary Phone Group has unveiled its plan to add 3-D graphics display function to its Java-based cell phones. (Nikkei Electronics)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/19/2001
  J-Phone Starts Delivery of 3D Images for Cellular Phones
Monday, March 19, 2001
  Summary The J-Phone Group, Bandai Networks Co., Ltd. and HI Corp. have collaborated to develop technology to display three-dimensional images on a cellular phone. (AsiaBizTech)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/18/2001
  J-Phone to Launch Mobile Phones with 3-D Image Display
Sunday, March 18, 2001
  Summary Japan's J-Phone group said Thursday it will launch in June the world's first mobile phone with three- dimensional images appearing on the screen. (Jiji Press)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/15/2001
  Vodafone May Buy British Telecom's Stake in Japan Telecom
Thursday, March 15, 2001
  Summary Vodafone Group Plc, the world's biggest cellular phone company, may be close to buying British Telecommunications Plc's 20 percent stake of Japan Telecom Co., analysts say. (Bloomberg)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 3/6/2001
  Japan Telecom: No Talks With Vodafone About Upping Stake
Tuesday, March 6, 2001
  Summary Japan Telecom Co. and Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) aren't discussing the possibility of the U.K. telecom firm raising its current 25% stake in Japan Telecom, company president Haruo Murakami said Tuesday. (Nikkei/Dow Jones)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 2/8/2001
  J-Phone mobile Web users top 5 mln as market grows
Thursday, February 8, 2001
  Summary Japan's third-largest carrier Japan Telecom Co Ltd said on Thursday that subscribers for its Internet-enabled cell phones topped five million in January, as mobile Web services gain a deeper foothold in Japan. (Reuters) (Reuters)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 12/18/2000
  J-Sky Subscribers Top 4 Million in 1 Year
Monday, December 18, 2000
  Summary The number of subscribers to the J-Sky mobile phone Internet connection service topped 4 million persons on Dec. 11, the J-phone group announced Friday. (AsiaBizTech) (Nikkei)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/24/2000
  J-Phone Aims to Get 600,000 IMT-2000 Subscribers in 1 Year
Monday, July 24, 2000
  Summary J-Phone Tokyo Co., Ltd. aims to get 600,000 subscribers in the Kanto district, including Tokyo, during the first year of release of its "IMT-2000" next-generation mobile-communications system. (AsiaBizTech) (Nikkei)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/19/2000
  J-Phone Aims to Get 600,000 IMT-2000 Subscribers in 1. Year
Wednesday, July 19, 2000
  Summary J-Phone Tokyo Co., Ltd. aims to get 600,000 subscribers in the Kanto district, including Tokyo, during the first year of release of its "IMT-2000" next-generation mobile-communications system. (AsiaBizTech) (Nikkei)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 7/10/2000
  J-Phone Mobile Internet Access Service Sees Surge
Monday, July 10, 2000
  Summary Subscribers of J-Phone group are rushing to upgrade the mobile phone services to have Internet access. (AsiaBizTech) (Nikkei)  
 
   
J-PHONE News of 5/20/2000
  J-Phone's 'J-Sky' Subscribers Surpass 1 Million
Saturday, May 20, 2000
  Summary The number of subscribers of J-Phone group's "J-Sky" Internet services exceeded 1 million on April 30. (AsiaBizTech) (Nikkei)  
 
   
 
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