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...getting easier. Many Japanese convenience stores are fitted with terminals that function as combination ATMs and online shopping kiosks, offering CDs, concert tickets and hotel reservations. The next step, say industry experts, is to link conventional vending machines with Japan's ubiquitous cellular telephones. In March, Japanese telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo announced that it is teaming up with Coca-Cola Japan and Itochu Corp. to test a system that will link i-mode, the company's Net phone service, with vending machines, allowing users to pay for drinks by pressing a few buttons on their handsets...
...belly futures while hanging from Mount Rushmore. Third-generation mobile telecommunications, or 3G, was going to change life as we know it, starting this month in Japan. Well, it looks like we're safe, for a while at least, from video conferences with the boss while on the privy. NTT DoCoMo, the undisputed hare in the race to bring 3G to market, announced last week that its service wasn't ready, and postponed the launch until October, a move that led to a 5% drop in the company's stock...
...costs far less than it does in the U.S. Another reason for the superiority of European and Japanese mobile telephony is better transmission standards. The Europe-wide GSM standard has long allowed a range of uses that are only just becoming widely available in the U.S.; the Japanese firm NTT DoCoMo, with its i-mode technology, has made mobile Internet access available to millions. But there's more to it than that...
...years before 3G becomes a serious consumer business. "There's already an existing good alternative: second generation voice plus sms text messaging," Moroney observes. Then there's so-called 2.5G, which transmits data in a similar fashion to UMTS, but with more limited bandwidth. The innovative Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo, meanwhile, has designs on importing its own version of next-generation wireless to Europe. The really fun stuff like video streaming might come first through something called a wireless LAN, a network available in designated areas like cafés and hotels. Just think of a coffee shop...
...radical company for Japan. Run by a collection of castoffs and misfits from parent company Nippon Telephone & Telegraph (think of the old AT&T, only slower), DoCoMo isn't bogged down by Japan's sclerotic management style. The company's $175 billion market cap now dwarfs NTT's, and it is projected to earn $3 billion on sales of $39 billion for the fiscal year ending March...