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Korean Communications Conference:
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Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, COEX Seoul,
May 12, 2011, 16:00-18:00
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American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ), Tokyo:
"The beauty of Japan's Galapagos Effect - and how to go beyond"
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Embassy of Sweden (Tokyo):
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Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Tokyo, May 19, 2010, 18:30
NIST, Washington DC:
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NIST, Washington DC:
"Understanding Ludwig Boltzmann"
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MIT Enterprise Forum:
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Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Boston (MA), April 19, 2010,
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DoCoMo and the i-Mode Ecosystem
Overview report of DoCoMo, one of the world's most advanced mobile operators, and i-Mode, the pioneering mobile internet system which started in Japan in February 1999. The report also describes DoCoMo's pioneering mobile payment systems.
Version 28 of January 6, 2011
approx. 197 pages, including approx. 48 Figures and 140 Photographs and 10 tables, pdf-format, 8 Mbyte
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13. LTE and Fourth Generation (4G) and i-mode:
13.1. What is the technology roadmap for i-Mode:
Currently DoCoMo uses wCDMA-HSDPA technology for the radio transmission network. This technology offers download transmission speads currently of around 3.6Mbps.
HSDPA can be upgraded to download speeds of around 10Mbps.
Currently some networks in Japan (e.g. eMobile) use data speeds up to 7.2Mbps.
From around 2010, DoCoMo is planning to upgrade the networks to "Super-3G", which internationally is often called LTE ("Long-Term Evolution") or also sometimes 3.9G.
The next network upgrades beyond will be 4G, which will be introduced in Japan around 2015, althought this timescale can change.
13.2. How will services change with these much higher data speeds:
It is very difficult to predict which be accepted by customers and commercially successful. 4G data speeds will enable high-quality streaming movies to laptop computers, 3G graphics and similar high data volume applications.