http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/15373.html
i-Mode to roam into US, Europe Q3 2001
By: Tony Smith
Posted: 11/12/2000 at 13:57 GMT
NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest cellphone company, will soon allow i-Mode users
to access its mobile Internet service from the US and Europe.
The company today said its overseas partners, AT&T Wireless and Dutch
cellphone operation KPN, will begin to provide roaming services to i-Mode
users during autumn 2001.
At the same time, DoCoMo's compadres will offer iMode to their own
customers.
AT&T and KPN will initially offer i-Mode over packet-based cellular
technology GPRS. Next May, DoCoMo will launch its next-generation
DS-CDMA-based IMT 2000 cellular service, which will eventually host i-Mode,
sometime in 2002. KPN and AT&T will offer DS-CDMA connections at that point
too, again for both their own customers and roaming DoCoMo subscribers.
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Received on Mon Dec 11 20:27:37 2000