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23 February 2004 - Alcatel and Fujitsu Limited today
announced that both companies joined forces to establish
a FOMA® live demonstration environment at NTT DoCoMo's
booth in 3GSM World Congress, in Cannes, France, from
February 23rd to 26th.
This showcase in Cannes enables visitors at the 3GSM
World Congress to directly access NTT DoCoMo's groundbreaking
FOMA network and experience the world's first commercial
third generation (3G) end-user services based on W-CDMA
technology.
FOMA 3G mobile communication services showcased in
Cannes include live video calls between Cannes and Japan,
as well as M-stage, V-Live , a video streaming service
that transmits a variety of live and archived video
content using circuit switched 64 kbps data transmission.
The live demonstration was made possible through a
private line between Cannes and the new FOMA showroom
officially opened by Alcatel and Fujitsu on January
20, 2004 in the premises of Alcatel in Vélizy, in the
suburbs of Paris. This showroom, which is jointly operated
by Alcatel and Fujitsu, is itself connected to the FOMA
network in Japan through an international private line.
Fujitsu has provided the FOMA 3G handsets and base station
for this showroom. In Cannes like in Vélizy, visitors
are in a position to enjoy the thrill of live FOMA 3G
services using FOMA 3G handsets already commercially
available in Japan.
By offering industry opinion leaders at the 3GSM World
Congress the opportunity to experience live FOMA 3G
services, the showcase is meant to foster a better understanding
of business opportunities that could be generated by
innovative 3G services. It also lays the ground for
the successful introduction of 3G/UMTS commercial services
in Europe.
"Our objective is to make live access to the FOMA services
widely possible for the international visitors at 3GSM
World congress in Cannes," stated Mr. Takashi Sakamoto,
Senior Vice President, Managing Director of Public Relations
Department, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. "Thanks to this pragmatic
initiative from Alcatel and Fujitsu, international industry
opinion leaders at the 3GSM are now in the unique position
to enjoy, in a real life situation, the state-of-the-art
3G FOMA mobile communications services as if they were
in Japan."
"We are glad to support NTT DoCoMo in the international
promotion of their FOMA 3G services." stated Hiroaki
Takeichi, Corporate Vice President, System Products
Business Group (Telecommunications) of Fujitsu Limited."
Building upon the success of Evolium SAS, the Alcatel-Fujitsu
joint venture for 3G infrastructure, this FOMA showcase
in Cannes is in the direct continuation of the successful
implementation of the FOMA Showroom we set up with Alcatel
in Vélizy."
"Alcatel is in an ideal position to leverage and extend
the mobile multimedia services experience it has already
gained through major customer projects and its world-wide
network of 3G Reality Centres," said Marc Rouanne, Chief
Operating Officer of Alcatel's mobile activities. "Through
this showcase in Cannes, which was made possible thanks
to Alcatel's and Fujitsu's close coordination, we are
convinced that international operators visiting the
3GSM can take the full benefit of NTT DoCoMo's leadership
in appealing 3G services, in particular video services."
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