Australia
: NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that the Japanese customers of
its 3G FOMA®-based WORLD CALL® service will be able to exchange
videophone calls with users of compatible 3G / W-CDMA services in
Australia offered by Hutchison 3G Australia beginning December 21,
2004.
Users will simply
dial 009130-010-country code and the local mobile number to place
a videophone call. The call between Japan and Singapore or Australia
will cost 54 yen per 10 seconds (324 yen per minute).
FOMA customers
in Japan can already place videophone calls to customers of DoCoMo's
partner companies in the UK, Hong Kong and Singapore.
DoCoMo today also
announced that it has partnered with Singapore's StarHub in videophone
services, enabling FOMA users to exchange videophone calls with StarHub
customers in addition to SingTel users in Singapore.