Now we have Docomo's prescence in India trying to spread its influence on India with a 2G GSM network. I'm sure in the near future Docomo will set up a 2100 W-CDMA just for Japanese roaming (Think, about it, India is a rising economy, so why don't get a head start with roaming when you may be potentially trading more with india?)
Ketais for India~that's brilliant, I'm expecting to see a festive TV commercial for the Indian SH(or whatever)-XXa where hundreds of Indian folks dance and sing like in those Bollywood flicks~
Who cares about that, I want to see Docomodake, Bollywood style! A musical with singing, dancing mushrooms would usually fall under the category of "produced while high", though.
And it's odd how DoCoMo Pacific never got any keitai; one would think that as a carrier ordering phones for sale that it's more cost-effective to get more of the same (keitai) than to get different models entirely (specially getting Euro/US models for Guam).
Great... now the keitais will be flooded by posers and alike! (Where I live anyways) (-_-") But it's nice to see docomo starting their world domination
well, if they could get together a docomo china they woudl be in the markets in the most likely markets to sky rocket in the next decade or so. I call its a smart move on Docomo to do this. Now if docomo can set up good market share in India, Tata Dcomo could do very good for docomo.
Yeah, I don't think this will be anything more than what's happening in Guam, albeit at a lower cost base, so cheaper Nokia/Samsung/LG phones on offer. Such a low cost-of-living country like India would in no way be able to shoulder the cost of the high-end keitais sold in Japan.
Regardless of the nonsense docomo's been spouting in their press release for this development (they say they'll introduce all the value-added service technologies (ie imode, osaifu keitai etc) to Tata docomo), I don't see any of it happening unless they're aiming to be a niche carrier for rich Indians.
They're going to try to introduce i-mode to yet another country? When most of their past efforts are dead or dying (I mean, Taiwan seems to be "special" in this regard)? Or FeliCa for that matter? (but FeliCa would be useful in that it could also be aimed at tourists/businesspeople coming in from Japan like the current implementation in China and Guam) I can get why they try (the Japanese market is saturated) but wouldn't it be a smarter idea to try and set up shop in a market that can handle what they normally do (China? Europe? Maybe North America?)
That's what I'm talking about, it's the usual 'here we come to change the world' type of press release that docomo usually churns out. Docomo is very much a company that acts like Qualcomm or Sony - it tries to impose its own standards on everyone, even if they don't want them.
There's still a few countries running i-mode, but probably half the original signers to the service have since killed it:
I guess its just a money making venture. If they can just get some market share in India's growing market...they have potential to make lots of money. It was liek in the early 2000's when docomo held stock of hutchison's, at&t and many companies before they were forced to sell.
But now they are actually part of this network. I suspect all they want out of this is to set up a network that docomo can roam on so in the future Japanese trading with India (a growing economy) is more accessible
Well, they still hold stock in Hutchison/3HK. But other than that, yeah. And another thing- I don't get how they've brought in the DoCoMo brand with only a 20-something percent share. It's not like Guam where they up and bought the whole thing.
But also, I don't see how they're going to introduce mobile FeliCa without bringing in keitai at first. It's going to take time to custom-make a non-keitai with FeliCa, and if they want to get it to market fast they'll need to bring in some cheap keitai at first, like the x905i series (or N705i/some other low-end GSM keitai). Of course, this could just as easily lead to a "we'll get to it" sort of response that eventually leads to nothing at all.
Now we have Docomo's prescence in India trying to spread its influence on India with a 2G GSM network. I'm sure in the near future Docomo will set up a 2100 W-CDMA just for Japanese roaming (Think, about it, India is a rising economy, so why don't get a head start with roaming when you may be potentially trading more with india?)
LAME..... well, maybe India will see some keitai action
Steve you get Kevbodian's official fanboy of the year prize of nothing for a comment like this "...Docomo will set up a 2100 W-CDMA just for Japanese roaming...".
India is not a rising economy. It has risen. I don't believe for a second that if Docomo were to build a 3G network in India that they would consider their Japanese clients in the slightest (Rogers AT&T Canada anyone?).
It will most likely end up like Docomo pacific. Docomo after all was a large investor in AT&T wireless in the past; what did that ever do for their lineup? Nec 515 and 525? (I loved that 525, though).
In a market the size of India, I can see Docomo, sorry, NTT in it for only the cash.
I wonder how they'd go about that, though. And I do wish they'd open up shop in China too- it's kind of frustrating staring at the little Docomodake (take a look at the bottom of this map- the Docomodake tag marks the FeliCa reader, and also note the receipt printing in Chinese) and realizing that I won't be able to take advantage of that in the near future.
And due to the post appearing above mine that I swear wasn't there when I first typed this post- DoCoMo actually DOES think about its Japanese clients. Notice the FeliCa installations in China and Guam, for instance. Completely useless to non-Japanese (and Japanese on Softbank/AU) but they went ahead and did it anyway. Of course, they may be thinking ahead to the point where they do introduce it to the locals to make money, but it hasn't happened yet, even in Guam where they ARE the carrier.
As for a fanboy statement.... no that is actually a valid point, but probably comes in as a secondary objective to make money (Well...isn't that kind of obvious?) It is very evident like I poitned out that Tata Docomo will end up like Docomo Pacific, again is a money making scheme.
Wait... o.o how Can I get fanboy of nothing....that makes no snese
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(Where I live anyways) (-_-") But it's nice to see docomo starting their world domination 
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