DDI Pocket to splash out on own Internet network
The Japan Times: Oct. 15, 2004
DDI Pocket Inc., Japan's largest provider of personal handy-phone system services, will invest 70 billion yen to establish its own Internet communications network...
DDI Pocket said it may introduce a flat-rate system for all calls in light of the expected cost reduction.
Softbank Corp. and KDDI Corp. have already adopted flat-rate systems for their fixed-line telephone services, bypassing NTT networks....
....The company will also increase the speed of its PHS data communications service to 256 kilobytes per second, twice as fast as the current service, by the end of the year.
