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| KDDI Introduces BREW Wireless In Japan |
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27th February 2003 |
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Inset is the A5304T. "We anticipate that our BREW-enabled services will be highly successful and that BREW-enabled phones will eventually represent a large number of our annual handset sales," said Yasuhiko Ito, Ph.D., executive managing officer, operating officer, KDDI Solution Business Sector. "The BREW solution enables us to deliver a cutting-edge wireless experience -- providing our subscribers with the ability to download a variety of applications over the air and personalize their BREW-enabled phones." "KDDI's leadership in the Japanese wireless data market is strengthened with the commercial launch of its BREW-enabled services, handsets and fast- growing catalog of applications," said Peggy Johnson, president, QUALCOMM Internet Services. "KDDI's commitment to offer BREW-based services to both its subscribers and enterprise customers demonstrates the flexibility and technical capabilities of the BREW solution. We look forward to growing the BREW developer community in Japan and working with KDDI to provide its subscribers with a compelling, easy-to-use wireless applications service." As part of the company's BREW-enabled handset line-up, KDDI will offer the Toshiba A5304T handset. Applications launched Feb. 21 include: Mail/Messenger Stand-by/Screensaver Games Ringer tone Map/Town guide Deployments of the BREW solution continue as operators throughout the world join Verizon Wireless and ALLTEL in the United States, KTF in South Korea, KDDI in Japan, and China Unicom in commercializing BREW-based services. Brasilcel, a joint venture between Spain's Telefonica Moviles and Portugal Telecom, plans to roll out BREW services to subscribers in Latin America in March 2003 and U.S. Cellular has launched a BREW user trial. More than 40 BREW-enabled handset models are already available to consumers worldwide and more than 40 device manufacturers have indicated their interest in the BREW platform. |
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KDDI's
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QUALCOMM
congratulates KDDI Corporation, Japan's second largest wireless operator,
on the Feb. 21 commercial launch of the operator's wireless applications
service based on QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless(TM)
(BREW) platform. KDDI's BREW-enabled applications service now gives
subscribers the ability to personalize their handsets over the air with
a wide variety of services, ranging from game and entertainment applications
to business, productivity and location based applications.