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While the majority of world is still moving to HSPA, Japanese operator eMobile has soft-launched the latest HSPA+ based mobile network that provides theoretical peak download speeds of 42 Mb/s. In other words, it’s the fastest mobile network in the Land of the rising Sun, and eMobile spares no words to emphasize this, very important selling point. However, at the moment, the new faster network is not available and the commercial launch in major metro areas of Tokyo, Tokai and Osaka is planned for later this year.
eMobile operates the fourth-largest network in Japan with 2.5 million users, or 2.3% of the market, according to data from Wireless Intelligence. At the same time, it’s also the fastest growing operator with year-on-year growth of 52.54%.
Unlike its competitors — NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and SoftBank — eMobile is focused on providing data-driven services. It launched HSDPA flat-rate data offering back in March 2007 and plans to move to LTE by 2012…
[Via: MobileBusinessBriefing]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
