NTT slugs try to play catch-up with Korea WiFi

[Taro Toporific]

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NTT plans WiMax tests next month
IDG news service, 31 January 2006
NTT, Japan's largest telecommunications group, plans to test WiMax technology as early as next month.
...WiMax is a high-speed wireless data transmission technology with benefits that fall between existing wired and cellular technologies. Tests of the technology are already underway in several countries and certification of WiMax equipment has begun. How long the tests will run is unclear, ....
,...NTT is currently reorganising its Internet services, including ADSL and Wi-Fi, under a single company called NTT Broadband Platform. The company is taking some infrastructure currently operated by NTT DoCoMo, long-distance and Internet operator NTT Communications and the NTT East and NTT West local carriers and combining it to a single platform from which group companies can offer services....more...

[IkemenTommy]

I wish if NTT would stop dicking around and get more serious with their service, especially when it comes to coverage and availability. They are finally dumping PHS in late 07 but their FOMA still needs more flexibility and coverage in the remote boonies.