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NTT DoCoMo to Intro Mobile VoIP for Home Broadband Networks

By Niladri Sekhar Nath, TMCnet Contributor

NTT DOCOMO and its eight regional subsidiaries have announced a new service that will enable DOCOMO FOMA third-generation handsets to connect to home broadband networks via wireless LAN routers.

 

With this new capability, mobile phone users will be able to enjoy 54 Mbps high-speed packet communication and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

 

With Home U, Japan's first consumer service for fixed-mobile convergence, DOCOMO FOMA phones will be able to download large-volume data, such as video, with the speed and convenience of broadband.

 

Also, VoIP calls to other Home U users will be free of charge, and to non-Home U users will be 30 percent cheaper than normal FOMA charges.

 

In the beginning, the service will be compatible with the N906iL onefone, a mobile/W-LAN dual handset that will be sold from the same day that the service becomes available.

 

NTT DoCoMo (News - Alert), a mobile communications company, serves more than 51 million customers, of which more than half subscribe to FOMA, launched as the world's first 3G mobile service based on W-CDMA in 2001.

 

Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

 

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