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KDDI to deploy drones to aid disaster relief

A drone flies in the dark during a demonstration at a KDDI Corp. press conference in Tokyo on May 13, 2024. In partnership with U.S. drone company Skydio Inc., the Japanese telecom company plans to deploy such drones, equipped with cameras and sensors, at 1,000 locations across Japan in order to respond quickly to earthquakes and other natural disasters.

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KDDI to deploy drones to aid disaster relief

A drone flies in the dark during a demonstration at a KDDI Corp. press conference in Tokyo on May 13, 2024. In partnership with U.S. drone company Skydio Inc., the Japanese telecom company plans to deploy such drones, equipped with cameras and sensors, at 1,000 locations across Japan in order to respond quickly to earthquakes and other natural disasters.

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KDDI to deploy drones to aid disaster relief

KDDI Corp. Managing Executive Officer Hiromichi Matsuda holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 13, 2024, to announce the company's plan to deploy drones at 1,000 locations across Japan to help disaster relief operations. In partnership with U.S. drone company Skydio Inc., the Japanese telecom company is aiming to build a network of its drones so that any disaster-hit area in Japan can be reached by one in about 10 minutes.

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KDDI to deploy drones to aid disaster relief

Photo taken in Tokyo on May 13, 2024, shows one of the many drones Japanese telecom company KDDI Corp. plans to deploy at 1,000 locations across Japan to help disaster relief operations. In partnership with U.S. drone company Skydio Inc., KDDI is aiming to build a network of its drones so that any disaster-hit area in Japan can be reached by one in about 10 minutes.

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KDDI to deploy drones to aid disaster relief

Photo taken in Tokyo on May 13, 2024, shows one of the many drones Japanese telecom company KDDI Corp. plans to deploy at 1,000 locations across Japan to help disaster relief operations. In partnership with U.S. drone company Skydio Inc., KDDI is aiming to build a network of its drones so that any disaster-hit area in Japan can be reached by one in about 10 minutes.

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KDDI to put on sale low-cost smartphones

TOKYO, Japan - KDDI Value Enabler Corp., KDDI Corp.'s mobile virtual network operator, unveils on Dec. 11, 2014, low-priced smartphones dubbed "UQ mobile" to be put on sale on Dec. 18. The move marks the first attempt by a major telecom firm to enter the low-priced segment of the Japanese smartphone market on a full scale.

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KDDI to enter low-cost smartphone market

TOKYO, Japan - This smartphone is one of the two models of low-priced smartphones to be sold from Dec. 18, 2014, by KDDI Value Enabler Corp., a mobile virtual network operator of KDDI Corp. The move marks the first attempt by a major telecom firm to enter the low-priced segment of the Japanese smartphone market on a full scale.

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Japan, China agree to strengthen tie-up in telecom sector

BEIJING, China - Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Taro Aso (L) and Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan are in talks in Beijing on Jan. 5. Japan and China agreed to reinforce their cooperation in the field of telecommunications including third-generation mobile phone services, Japanese officials said.

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Rakuten to release budget smartphones

TOKYO, Japan - Top Japanese online mall operator Rakuten Inc. announces the launch of budget smartphones in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2014, offering models with far lower price tags than those of major telecom service providers.

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KDDI, Sumitomo ink deal with Myanmar telecom for mobile phone service

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar - Hidehiko Tajima (L), associate senior vice president of Japan's KDDI Corp., speaks at a news conference in the Myanmar administrative capital of Naypyidaw on July 16, 2014. Tajima said KDDI and Sumitomo Corp. signed an agreement with state-run Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications to jointly operate a mobile phone service in Myanmar.

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SoftBank group posts record profit of 527.04 bil yen

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Corp., briefs reporters on the company's financial results at a press conference in Tokyo on May 7, 2014. For the past year to March 31, SoftBank's group net profit surged 41.5 percent from a year earlier to a record 527.04 billion yen due to a rise in subscriptions and purchase of the third-biggest U.S. telecom carrier Sprint Nextel Corp.

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Yahoo Japan to enter telecom market

TOKYO, Japan - Manabu Miyasaka, president of Internet search engine Yahoo Japan Corp., holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 27, 2014. The company said it will expand into the telecommunications market by acquiring a major stake in telecom service provider eAccess Ltd, which is scheduled to absorb PHS carrier Willcom Inc. on June 1.

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NTT East employee held in bribery case

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators enter the headquarters of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp. in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on March 2, 2012. A 36-year-old employee of the company was arrested the same day on suspicion of receiving around 1.3 million yen in kickbacks from a telecom-related company in connection with the regional telephone operator's Flet's TV business, police said.

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Ex-telecom exec to head budget airline Jetstar Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Miyuki Suzuki, who will become the chief executive officer of budget airline Jetstar Japan, holds a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 11, 2011. Japan Airlines Co., trading house Mitsubishi Corp. and the Qantas Group of Australia, which jointly set up Jetstar Japan, announced the same day the appointment of Suzuki, a former senior executive director of fixed-line phone service provider Japan Telecom Co., as the CEO of the airline that aims to begin flying by the end of 2012.

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Softbank, cities seek green energy

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son (back L), president of telecom conglomerate Softbank Corp., speaks during a meeting in Tokyo on July 27, 2011, to mark the launch of a forum by his company and some major Japanese cities to promote solar power, wind power and other forms of green energy.

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Softbank's Son, governors to push for green energy

AKITA, Japan - Masayoshi Son (C), president of telecom conglomerate Softbank Corp., speaks after a meeting with governors from prefectures across Japan in the city of Akita, northeastern Japan, on July 13, 2011. They launched a council the same day aimed at reducing dependence on nuclear power by promoting the use of renewable energy, such as building solar power plants on idle farmland.

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KDDI's e-book handset

TOKYO, Japan - This photo shows the biblio Leaf SP02 e-book reader handset to be released Dec. 25, 2010, by the Japanese telecom company KDDI Corp.

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APEC sets target to expand broadband network

NAGO, Japan - Japanese telecom minister Yoshihiro Katayama speaks at a press conference to wrap up ministerial talks on telecommunication and information of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 31, 2010. The member economies set a target of diffusing high-speed broadband networks by 2020.

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APEC telecom, info talks in Okinawa

NAGO, Japan - Participants in ministerial talks on telecommunication and information of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum pose at the onset of the two-day meeting in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 30, 2010.

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APEC telecom, info talks in Okinawa

NAGO, Japan - Japanese telecom minister Yoshihiro Katayama attends a session of ministerial talks on telecommunication and information of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum as a co-chairman in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 30, 2010.

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NTT Docomo president at APEC telecom event

NAGO, Japan - Ryuji Yamada, president of Japan's top cellphone carrier NTT Docomo Inc., delivers a lecture at a seminar related to the ministerial telecom and information talks of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 29, 2010. Yamada said how to control the increasing amount of telecom information is a global challenge.

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Confab held in Lima to promote Japanese digital TV standard

LIMA, Peru - Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kazuhiro Haraguchi (C) and telecom ministers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru, raise their hands in Lima on Sept. 21, 2009, after signing an accord to promote a digital terrestrial television standard used in Japan.

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Gov't may require telecom firms to collect used cellphones

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a box for collecting used mobile phones at a convenience store in Yokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry officials said Jan. 20 that the ministry is considering requiring telecom companies and retailers to collect used cellphones to step up Japan's efforts to secure precious metals.

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KDDI, Rostelecom to launch fiber-optic submarine cables

TOKYO, Japan - Konstantin Solodukhin (L), general director of Rostelecom, Russia's largest long-distance telecom carrier, and Yasuhiko Ito, executive vice president of Japanese telecommunications firm KDDI Corp., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 5 to announce that the two companies will begin operating fiber-optic undersea cables between the two countries for high-speed data transmission.

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Rakuten to strengthen telecom business: Mikitani

TOKYO, Japan - Rakuten Inc. President Hiroshi Mikitani said in an interview with Kyodo News on Feb. 18 that Japan's top online shopping mall operator will strengthen its telecommunications business through an Internet protocol phone operator it acquired last year.

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Panel OKs ministerial order for NHK to focus on reporting abductions

TOKYO, Japan - Telecom minister Yoshihide Suga (C) speaks with reporters at his ministry after his advisory panel endorsed his controversial order for Japan's public broadcaster NHK to focus on the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in its international shortwave radio broadcasts.

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Telecom venture Heisei Denden likely to go bankrupt

TOKYO, Japan - Kenji Sato, president of Heisei Denden Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 17. Sato said the company, which offers low-cost fixed-line telephone services, will give up rehabilitating itself.

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Global positioning system cellphones tested for guiding evacuees

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University students and an engineer from the research arm of telecom carrier KDDI Corp. carry out an experiment on the school campus to see how mobile phones equipped with global positioning systems can be used to provide evacuation guidance in the event of a disaster.

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Japan Telecom succeeds with broadband test on moving train

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Telecom Co. said Nov. 16 it has succeeded in an experiment for broadband communications on a train traveling at high speed. The technology, which could be put to practical use within one or two years, would enable connection to the Internet while consumers are using fast-moving public transport, the telecom carrier said.

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Softbank to offer less expensive fixed-line phone service

TOKYO, Japan - Soft Bank Corp. President Masayoshi Son said Aug. 30 the company and its ally Japan Telecom Co. will start offering a fixed-line phone service in December with a basic fee that is 200 yen less than those of NTT East Corp. and NTT West Corp.

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Japan, S. Korea, China discuss new IT standardization

SAPPORO, Japan - Telecom ministers from Japan, China and South Korea begin discussing standardizing next-generation information technologies at a meeting July 26 in Sapporo.

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Softbank to buy Japan Telecom from Ripplewood for 340 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Ripplewood Holdings, LLC CEO Timothy Collins, Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son and Japan Telecom Co. President Hideki Kurashige shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on May 27 after Softbank announced the same day it will buy Japan Telecom from U.S. investment fund Ripplewood for about 340 billion yen in the fall.

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KDDI develops handset for viewing digital TV

TOKYO, Japan - Telecom carrier KDDI Corp. said May 12 it has developed Japan's first prototype of a mobile phone enabling users to view terrestrial digital television programs and obtain various data linked to the programs, such as audience ratings.

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New digital radio broadcasting services to be tested

TOKYO, Japan - An marketing assistant holds a receiver for ticket sales and music-downloading services linked to terrestrial digital radio broadcasting which Telecom carrier KDDI Corp. and Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co. will launch on a trial basis. The two companies said March 3 will conduct trials for these new services at Tokyo Tower for three days from March 4, using a prototype mobile receiver developed jointly by the two companies and Tokyo-based electronics firm Vitec Co.

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Tokyo venture to launch world's 1st IP mobile phone service

TOKYO, Japan - IP Talk Corp., a Tokyo telecom venture, said Oct. 6 it will start providing Internet protocol (IP) mobile telephone services on such devices as that shown in photo in March next year. The service will allow free calls between subscribers and charge extremely low rates for calls to fixed-line numbers and overseas.

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Ripplewood announces acquisition of Japan Telecom

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Telecom Holdings President William Morrow (L) and Ripplewood Holdings LLC Managing Director Jeffrey Hendren shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 21 after signing an agreement on Ripplewood's acquisition of Japan Telecom Co., the fixed-line carrier arm of Japan Telecom Holdings Co., which operates under the wing of British mobile giant Vodafone Group PLC.

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5 carriers file suit over NTT connection fee hike

TOKYO, Japan - The presidents of five telecommunications carriers -- KDDI Corp., Japan Telecom Co., Poweredcom Inc., Cable & Wireless IDC Inc. and Fusion Communications Corp. -- hold a joint press conference in Tokyo on July 17 after filing a suit with the Tokyo District Court against the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications over the ministry's approval of a hike in connection fees they pay to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT).

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New carriers, U.S. join hands in opposing NTT's fee hike plan

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from new Japanese common carriers sit together with consumers as well as U.S. government officials at a symposium held in Tokyo on March 4 to oppose the telecommunications ministry's plan to let Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) raise the interconnection fees it charges to other carriers to access its phone lines. Jessica Webster, first secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, told the meeting that the planned fee hike would wipe out benefits from increased competition in Japan's telecom market.

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New NTT chief foresees combination of service units

TOKYO, Japan - Norio Wada, new president of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT), speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on June 28. He said that newly established regional service operations may be closed or combined as part of restructuring of Japan's biggest telecom company. ''If they remain in the red, they will be closed,'' Wada said.

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NTT DoCoMo licenses i-mode technologies to France's Bouygues

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (R), president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., and Martin Bouygues (L), president and CEO of French mobile phone service provider Bouygues Telecom S.A., shake hands April 17 after announcing an agreement under which NTT DoCoMo will license and transfer its popular i-mode mobile Internet service technologies to enable the French firm to offer the services in France.

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KDDI to launch new 3G high-speed mobile service in April

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Onodera, president of KDDI Corp., shows off a mobile phone handset model to be used for the company's new third-generation (3G) high-speed data transmission service, at a news conference in Tokyo on March 11. Japan's second-largest telecom operator will launch the new CDMA2000 1x mobile service for its ''au'' mobile phones on April 1.

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TEPCO hopes to challenge NTT dominance in Internet access

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. Minami said TEPCO hopes to check the dominance of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) in Japan's telecom market by launching its own high-speed optical fiber Internet access service.

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Ogata asks Koizumi to help Afghan refugees, telecom network

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) shake hands with Sadako Ogata, his special envoy on Afghan affairs, at his official residence in Tokyo on Jan. 23. Ogata, who co-chaired an international donors conference on reconstruction of Afghanistan in Tokyo earlier this week, asked for Japan to help Afghan refugees and provide aid in areas such as telecommunications.

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China, Japan agree on broader cooperation in IT

BEIJING, China - Japanese Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama (L) and Chinese Information Industry Minister Wu Jichuan exchange notes on promotion of cooperation in the field of information technology (IT). Katayama and Wu also agreed on launching trilateral telecom ministerial talks on a regular basis, along with South Korea.

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Vodaphone's Morrow to head Japan Telecom

TOKYO, Japan - William Morrow (L), vice president of Vodaphone-Japan, and Haruo Murakami, the company's president, meet the press Nov. 28 in Tokyo to announce that Morrow will replace Murakami next month. Murakami will assume the post of chairman. Japan Telecom is owned 66.7% by British mobile phone giant Vodafone Group PLC.

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NTT plunges into red

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) President Junichiro Miyazu (C) speaks at a news conference Nov. 22, 2001 on the telecom carrier's financial statement for the fiscal first half ended Sept. 30. NTT suffered a group net loss of 261.33 billion yen as it posted huge valuation losses on its acquisitions of overseas telecommunications companies.

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EU asks Japan to promote competition in telecom market

TOKYO, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Shinichi Kitajima (L), Director-General of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Economic Bureau, and Fernando Valenzuela, Deputy Director-General for External Relations of the European Commission, shake hands at the Foreign Ministry on Oct. 23 after swapping notes listing each other's deregulation demand. The European Union called on Japan to set up an independent regulatory body to promote competition in its telecommunications market.

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Japan Telecom to merge 4 J-Phone firms in Nov.

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Sakata, chairman of Japan Telecom Co., announces the merger of the company's four J-phone mobile phone firms at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 24. Japan Telecom will merge J-Phone East Co., J-Phone West Co. and J-Phone Central Co. into their holding company, J-Phone Communications Corp., on Nov. 1 to better compete with market leader NTT DoCoMo Inc.

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eBank launches operations as Japan's 3rd online bank

TOKYO, Japan - Taiichi Matsuo (sitting), president of eBank Corp., and some 50 of the bank's employees celebrate the beginning of business in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on July 23. The bank, set up by about 40 companies, including Japan Telecom Co. and trading house Itochu Corp, launched operations as the nation's third Internet-based online bank.

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Japan Telecom to begin Web access service via home phones

TOKYO, Japan - A man demonstrates in Tokyo on May 21 how to browse the World Wide Web with a fixed-line telephone through a Japan Telecom Co. service to be launched July 13. J-web will enable users to access the Web without personal computers or Internet provider connections by using home phones equipped with liquid crystal displays.