NTT DoCoMo announced the European and Asian expansion of its FOMA 3G international roaming and videophone services. DoCoMo has added the following operators to its roaming partners in the countries where DoCoMo is already providing roaming services.
3G Voice Communications and SMS
- KTF (Korea)
- Smartone (Hong Kong)
- Sonera (Finland)
- TIM (Italy)
3G Packet Communication Service
- KTF (Korea)
- Smartone (Hong Kong
- Sonera (Finland)
- TIM (Italy)
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3G Videophone Service
- Smartone (Hong Kong)
- T-Mobile Deutschland (Germany)
- TIM (Italy)
The roaming services are available for users of the company’s W-CDMA International roaming handsets, which are based on 3GPP. From July 13, FOMA videophone users who subscribe to DoCoMo’s WORLD CALL service will be able to enjoy videophone calls with 3G videophone customers of mobile operators FET (Taiwan), Smartone (Hong Kong) and T-Mobile Deutschland (Germany).
After the expansion, DoCoMo will offer i-mode packet communications roaming in 44 countries/regions and videophone roaming in 10 countries/regions. Users in Japan will be able to make international videophone calls to 13countries/regions.
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