KDDI has signed an agreement to provide roaming services to Rakuten for its LTE mobile network to be launched in October 2019, which will enable the e-commerce firm to offer a nationwide LTE service from Read more…
The so-called Tribrid Project in Indonesia by KDDI and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) – which aims to cut base station carbon footprints by 80% – has been registered as an official Read more…
The GSMA announced that Japanese mobile operators KDDI, NTT DoCoMo and SoftBank have launched a new service based on the GSMA’s RCS specifications. The service – called ‘+ message’ – is an upgrade to SMS Read more…
KDDI has formed a strategic partnership with Osterhout Design Group (ODG) to jointly plan and develop smartglasses using VR/AR technology for 5G apps. In anticipation of the changes that will be brought on by widespread Read more…
KDDI, OYO and Toyota have agreed to cooperate in establishing an information support system for the Japanese government and local administrations as a measure for disaster prevention and mitigation using IoT and big data analytics Read more…
Nokia and KDDI say they have successfully demonstrated the use of LTE broadcast technology in Japan to provide cost-efficient, low-latency connectivity for vehicles. Nokia claims the trials are the first in the world to use Read more…
KDDI and Samsung Electronics announced they have successfully field-trialed 5G tablets on a 5G network in a baseball stadium. Using Samsung’s 5G end-to-end solutions spanning virtualized core, virtualized RAN, access units, and multiple prototype 5G Read more…
A new consortium comprising seven APAC telecoms players – plus Facebook – have signed a deal with NEC to build the Southeast Asia-Japan 2 (SJC2) submarine cable connecting nine countries across the region. The SJC2 Read more…
Toyota and JapanTaxi have jointly developed a taxi dispatch support system with KDDI and Accenture that predicts demand for taxi services. The system combines data from taxi service logs with predictions of demographics made by Read more…
Qualcomm, KDDI and NEC Platforms have announced shipment of what they’re billing as the world’s first commercially available draft 802.11ax carrier gateway. The BL1000HW – scheduled for delivery to KDDI home subscribers in Japan this Read more…
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