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KDDI unveils summer mobile lineup with hi-vision movie camera

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Onodera, president of KDDI Corp., the operator of the ''au'' brand mobile phone service, holds up two of the company's new mobile handsets during a press conference in Tokyo on May 25. Onedera unveiled KDDI's summer lineup of 13 mobile handsets featuring its first hi-vision camera for recording moving images and a player for reading electronic novels.

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NTT DoCoMo to post heavy losses on foreign investments

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa talks with the media at his office in Tokyo on April 4. He said the company will post an additional appraisal loss of 550 billion yen on its overseas investments for the year to March 31, pushing Japan's largest mobile phone operator into the red for the first time since it went public in 1998.

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NTT DoCoMo begins trial 3G cell phone service

TOKYO, Japan - An NTT DoCoMo Inc. employee holds a new handset on which Japan's largest mobile phone operator began trial third-generation (3G) mobile phone services in the Tokyo metropolitan area May 30. The world's first 3G mobile phone service to collect phone charges involves the free distribution of 4,500 handsets to participants in the trial to last till Sept. 30 in Tokyo's 23 wards and limited areas in Yokohama and Kawasaki, both Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Fusion launches long-distance service at uniform rate

TOKYO, Japan - Tadahisa Sumida, president of Fusion Communications Corp., raises a toast in Tokyo on April 1 to celebrate the launch of the company's Internet-based domestic long-distance telephone service that charges users a uniform rate of 20 yen per three minutes for calls made to anywhere in Japan. Fusion is the first phone operator in Japan to offer a uniform long-distance rate irrespective of the distance and the time or day of a call.

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NTT DoCoMo to post heavy losses on foreign investments

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa talks with the media at his office in Tokyo on April 4. He said the company will post an additional appraisal loss of 550 billion yen on its overseas investments for the year to March 31, pushing Japan's largest mobile phone operator into the red for the first time since it went public in 1998.

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KDDI unveils summer mobile lineup with hi-vision movie camera

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Onodera, president of KDDI Corp., the operator of the ''au'' brand mobile phone service, holds up two of the company's new mobile handsets during a press conference in Tokyo on May 25. Onedera unveiled KDDI's summer lineup of 13 mobile handsets featuring its first hi-vision camera for recording moving images and a player for reading electronic novels. (Kyodo)

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SoftBank's TSE debut

A stock data screen in Tokyo shows mobile phone operator SoftBank Corp. opening at 1,463 yen on its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's first section on Dec. 19, 2018, falling from its initial offering price of 1,500 yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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SoftBank's TSE debut

A stock data screen in Tokyo shows mobile phone operator SoftBank Corp. opening at 1,463 yen on its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's first section on Dec. 19, 2018, falling from its initial offering price of 1,500 yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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NTT DoCoMo begins trial 3G cell phone service

TOKYO, Japan - An NTT DoCoMo Inc. employee holds a new handset on which Japan's largest mobile phone operator began trial third-generation (3G) mobile phone services in the Tokyo metropolitan area May 30. The world's first 3G mobile phone service to collect phone charges involves the free distribution of 4,500 handsets to participants in the trial to last till Sept. 30 in Tokyo's 23 wards and limited areas in Yokohama and Kawasaki, both Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Fusion launches long-distance service at uniform rate

TOKYO, Japan - Tadahisa Sumida, president of Fusion Communications Corp., raises a toast in Tokyo on April 1 to celebrate the launch of the company's Internet-based domestic long-distance telephone service that charges users a uniform rate of 20 yen per three minutes for calls made to anywhere in Japan. Fusion is the first phone operator in Japan to offer a uniform long-distance rate irrespective of the distance and the time or day of a call.