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Sun and Nippon company team up on Java and Jini
The Mobile Communications Network division of Japanese company considers use of Java and related technologies in future cellular phones and services
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March 16, 1999 -- Sun Microsystems Inc. and the cellular phone unit of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT) said today they will begin studying ways to use Java and related technologies in future cellular phones and services to be offered by the Japanese carrier.
Sun and NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. provided few details on the agreement, but officials said that by year-end they will finish a prototype of a cellular terminal that incorporates Sun's Java technology. The companies will likely launch Java-based services in Japan by the end of 2000, according to Kei-ichi Enoki, director of the Gateway Business Department at NTT Mobile Communications Network, better known as NTT DoCoMo.
"Obviously, it's quite early in our collaboration, but we have some fascinating ideas [for services]," said Mark Tolliver, president of consumer and embedded technologies at Sun. Such ideas include ways for DoCoMo customers to buy music, receive news, play network games, and reserve plane tickets over their cellular phones, he said.
The three technologies covered by the agreement are Sun's Java virtual machine; the Java Card, a smart-card system based on Java; and Jini, a set of Java technologies that Sun says helps disparate kinds of electronic devices to communicate over a network.
The partners will use the Sun technologies to expand existing DoCoMo services, called i-mode, that were launched last month. The i-mode services allow subscribers to carry out banking transactions, buy concert tickets, and make travel arrangements via their cellular phones.
The agreement hooks Sun up with an influential mobile telecom provider. With roughly 23 million cellular subscribers, NTT DoCoMo is the world's largest cellular phone company and one that hopes to quickly grow its influence outside of Japan. The Tokyo-based company is actively promoting an in-house-developed technology called Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, or W-CDMA, as a next-generation global cell phone standard.
W-CDMA, also backed by L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. and Nokia Corp., is one contender for the IMT-2000 specification, a project led by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to map out a global standard for mobile phone technology. The standard would give customers global access to advanced high-speed cellular services. The W-CDMA technology, for instance, can carry video, audio, and images to a person's cell phone.
DoCoMo and Sun may "introduce the Java technology to W-CDMA," according to DoCoMo's Enoki.
Investors applauded the deal. On the day of the Sun/DoCoMo announcement, in Tokyo trading, DoCoMo's share price hit its record high in interim trading and closed at 5.29 million yen (US4,811.5), up 5 percent for the day.
"If you imagine that just 10 [percent] or 20 percent of DoCoMo's customers subscribe to the [Java] services, it could be a huge market," said Toshiaki Iba, a senior analyst at Tokyo-Mitsubishi Securities Co. Ltd. But Iba said DoCoMo's i-mode services are based on proprietary technology, so they will "not prevail beyond Japan nor beyond DoCoMo."
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