"J. Sean Bennett" wrote:
> I've seen the Cellular "AU" brand popping up lately; Ren, could you post the
> press release contents to the list, for those of us w/o a Nikkei Interactive
> membership?
>
Not very exciting:
Tuesday, May 23, 2000
Reborn DDI To Rename Cell Phone Services
TOKYO (Nikkei)--DDI Corp. (9433), KDD Corp. (9431) and
Nippon
Idou Tsushin Corp. (IDO), announced Monday that they
will use the
brand name "au" for their joint nationwide cellular
phone services
after they merge in October.
The brand will be used ahead of the merger for service
to be offered
from July on the 800MHz band by IDO and eight
DDI-affiliated cell
phone companies.
It will also be used for a next-generation service to be
introduced in
2002 but not for the DDI group's Tu-Ka services.
(The Nikkei Industrial Daily Tuesday edition)
Also check out:
http://www.ido.co.jp/release/news/20000522.html
(Japanese)
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morgan stanley dean witter japan
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Received on Wed Jul 12 07:01:38 2000