AT&T/DoCoMo Deal For W-CDMA Deployment In U.S.

murky.waters writes "The specifics of several amendments to the original deal are spelled out in a news.com article: AT&T gets $6.2 billion from NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest telecom, for deploying a third generation wireless network in four of the top fifty cell phone markets by December 31, 2004. The chosen few are San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas and San Diego. However, there's a city-swap provision to possibly include either Miami or Detroit for Dallas, Phoenix or Houston for San Diego. Last, AT&T could get out of the deal if they chose an alternate third generation technology."

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Docomo is spreading

[thogard]

One problem with the nice docomo phone in Japan is there are towers everywhere. The things have no power because they don't need much.

I met a guy in Perth who had just come from Japan. I showed him how to rechrge the phone using the shaver plug (the 240V ac would have fried the recharger) and when it was fully charged he tried to make a call. He got a voice in Japanese saying there was a problem with his account. I wonder if they are doing trials in Perth.

Amazing fact about NTT Docomo Name

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you realize that NTT Docomo is really an anagram of "Not DotCom" ???