Japan is pushing its development of 5G networks at full throttle, with its top-three telecom operators - NTT Docomo, KDDI au and SoftBank - set to kick off 5G commercial pre-service...

Following the liberalization of Japan's low-voltage electricity market beginning April 1, 2016, NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and SoftBank, the three largest Japan-based mobile telecom carriers,...

In the Japan market, mobile operator KDDI set up a smart drone platform to store photographs and video in a database in the fourth quarter of 2016, while MVNO (mobile virtual network...

Two of the top-three Japan-based mobile telecom carriers, NTT DoCoMo and Softbank, have reduced the number of new phones launched for the summer of 2016 as the growth of smartphone...

Smartphones launched by the top-three Japan-based telecom operators for summer 2015 are almost identical in hardware specifications, but the carriers have been trying to differentiate...

Japan-based mobile operator KDDI will team up with its hardware production partner LG Electronics to release a Firefox-based smartphone in December, targeting the mid-range segment,...

HTC has unveiled its new flagship model, the HTC Butterfly 2, in Tokyo in cooperation with KDDI. The smartphone will also be available in Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Malaysia,...

HTC will launch the HTC J Butterfly, a smartphone customized for mobile telecom carrier KDDI, in the Japan market in early December 2012, according to the company.

As cloud computing business opportunities are expanding, several notebook ODMs have been aggressively pushing their related business segments and expect strong revenue growth from...

UQ Communications, a WiMAX operator in Japan, has expanded its network to more than 20,000 base stations to cover a population of 10 million, according to company CTO Fumio Watanabe...

HTC plans to adjust its marketing strategy for North Asia and will shift its resources to focus on the fast growing smartphone market in Japan, while maintaining a basic operating...

4G chipmaker Sequans has announced that it is the provider of the WiMAX chip inside the HTC EVO WiMAX smartphone that was announced in Japan on February 28 by KDDI and HTC.

Smartphone vendor HTC and Japan-based telecom carrier KDDI jointly announced on February 28 that UQ Communications, a KDDI subsidiary in WiMAX services, will distribute the HTC EVO...

KDDI, the second largest mobile telecom carrier in Japan, will acquire a 76% stake in KKBOX Incorporated, a Cayman Islands-registered parent company of Taiwan-based online streaming...

The tally of wireless operators committed to deploy LTE networks and offer LTE-based services to their subscribers in 2010 has climbed to at least 12, according to ABI Research. By...

After having recently delivered HTC Victor handsets to Japan-based Emobile, High Tech Computer (HTC) has also landed orders for its Diamond-series handsets from two other mobile operators...

Taiwan-based Shin Kong Group reportedly may increase its stake in financially-struggling First International Telecom (Fitel) by teaming up with Japan-based mobile telecom carrier...

Taiwan-based Shin Kong Financial Group plans to cooperate with KDDI, the second largest mobile telecom carrier in Japan, for joint investment in Asia Pacific Broadband Telecom (APBT),...