In Focus: Japan

NTT DOCOMO has surpassed the 10 million subscriber milestone for its Xi (pronounced crossy) LTE mobile service.  Subscribers reached one ...

NTT DOCOMO has developed a base station antenna that supports five frequency bands, including Japan's newly allocated 700MHz band for ...

NTT Communications announced an agreement with Denmark's TDC enabling it to extends services in the Nordic region. NTT Communications will ...

Fujitsu Limited and Panasonic Corporation agreed to combine their semiconductor businesses into a new company with a fabless business model. ...

KDDI has selected Infinera's DTN-X platform to upgrade the Miyazaki – Okinawa Cable network in Japan.  The upgrade will enable ...

Sumitomo Electric Industries announced a high-efficiency broadband power amplifier for base stations. The device covers  a wide radio frequency (RF) ...

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a digital signal processor (DSP) for mobile device baseband processing that uses the same vector processing ...

Fujitsu Labs has developed a new data transfer protocol that it claims delivers a 30x improvement in throughput over conventional ...

NTT, along with Osaka University and The University of Electro-Communications, are developing virtualized network control technology to provide rapid recovery ...

Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc. and ISB Corp. are testing a TV ...

NeoPhotonics, which provides photonic integrated circuit (PIC) modules and subsystems , agreed to acquire the semiconductor optical components business unit ...

NTT DOCOMO unveiled its 2013 spring device lineup, including 11 smartphones and tablets, plus one mobile Wi-Fi router. Some of ...

Alcatel-Lucent has been selected to upgrade a 9,600km trans-Pacific digital submarine cable system that provides direct connectivity from the Japanese ...