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Fujitsu développe un telephone portable compatible avec les reseaux 2G européens et 3G japonais

Certains fabriquants comme Hitachi proposent deja des téléphones portables destinés au marché japonais et capables de fonctionner en europe grace à un systeme de roaming mais leur cout d'utilisation hors du Japon est tres elevé (les communication en roaming sont facturées le prix de communication internationales) .

Fujitsu vise davantage le marché européen et devrait s'associer avec Sagem pour distribuer ce telephone totalement compatible avec les 2 reseaux vers fin 2004/debut 2005.

Source : Kyodo
Vu sur : Yahoo Asia News


Fujitsu targets overseas cell phone mart with new product

Fujitsu Ltd. plans to reenter overseas cell phone markets with the release of European models compatible with both second-generation (2G) and third-generation (3G) technologies as early as early 2005, a major Japanese business daily reported Thursday.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said that Fujitsu plans to develop basic technologies for the dual-standard cell phones with the leading French cell phone manufacturer Sagem SA with which Fujitsu signed a technological cooperation agreement in 2002.

Fujitsu used to sell analogue cell phones in the U.S. in the early 1990s but withdrew from the market in 1997 after falling behind its competitors in developing digital phones, the report said.

The new Fujitsu-Sagem phones will be compatible with the GPRS 2G standard dominant in Europe and the W-CDMA 3G standard used in NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s FOMA cell phone service, the report said.

As 3G services will become available in Britain, France and other major European countries later this year, Fujitsu decided to take advantage of the opportunity and make use of its know-how gained through developing 3G phones in Japan, the report said.

Fujitsu, which has yet to finalize its marketing strategy, will manufacture the phones in Japan and export them to Europe as high-end products. The company is also considering using Sagem's sales network, the report said.

The report also said that Fujitsu is likely to expand cell phone operations in China as the country uses the same cell phone standard as Europe.
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