I've seen some ticket terminals in JR stations around Tokyo recently with
the AU sticker on them. I would've thought it was just advertising, but I
saw a ticket terminal under repair last week, and when I got close there was
a sign that said something like..."Sorry for the wait, this terminal is
being made mobile AU compliant".
Hmm, what are they up to?
Marcus
----- Original Message -----
From: Renfield Kuroda <Renfield.Kuroda@msdw.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 1:06 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: DDI's EZ -> AU
>
>
> "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
> e-business technologies | engineering and strategy
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