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Japanese mobile phone giant NTT DoCoMo plans to launch a high-speed,
low-cost data communications service in 2010 that is capable of
showing high-quality video, a news report has said.
The Super 3G (third generation) service will only require upgrades
to the existing network, keeping down necessary investment to
between 100 billion and 200 billion yen (840 million to 1.68 billion
dollars), the Nikkei newspaper reported.
With a speed of roughly 100 megabits per second, Super 3G will be
some 260 times faster as the existing 3G service of DoCoMo, which
tops out at 384 kilobits per second, the business daily said without
citing sources.
The planned service will let viewers watch programming in smooth
high-resolution video, the Nihon Keizai said.
It will also be possible to quickly send and receive large files
like those used in personal computers, it said.
The firm is set to begin field tests this year, the newspaper said.
-- AFP
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