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Japan, China to jointly develop 4G mobile
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-08-25 07:14
TOKYO - Japan and China are to join forces to develop a fourth-generation
cellular telephone combining Japan's skill in technology with China's huge
potential market, AFP reported.
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woman talks with a mobile phone at a mobile phone exhibition in Nanjing,
June 18, 2005. [newsphoto/file] | Despite frequent
political tension between the Asian neighbors, officials of the two governments
will meet in Tokyo on Friday to launch the project for the next-generation
phone, said the official of Japan's Internal Affairs and Communications
Ministry.
"During the meeting, we plan to sign a basic agreement to cooperate in
research and development in order to secure a global standard by taking
advantage of our strengths," the official said.
Similar governmental meetings will be held regularly and the two nations will
set up a forum of industrialists, academics and officials, he said.
Fourth-generation cellular phones, expected to come into practical use around
2010, will be able to transmit data as quickly as optical fiber, dramatically
improving the streaming of high-quality images.
Japan has been at the forefront of third-generation (3G) telephones, which
allow Internet service, online banking and other advanced features. Most of the
world has been slower to catch on amid concern about the high price of 3G.
Japan's biggest mobile provider NTT DoCoMo, which introduced 3G in 2001,
plans to abolish earlier-generation phones altogether by 2012.
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