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Hutchison Essar joins hands with NTT DoCoMo

To offer i-mode mobile Internet services

— PHOTO: S. SUBRAMANIUM

STRATEGIC ALLIANCE: Asim Ghosh (left), Managing Director, Hutchison Essar, with Takeshi Natsuno, Senior Vice-President and Managing Director of Multimedia Services, NTT DoCoMo, painting a Japanese traditional `Daruma' symbolising success and prosperity at a press conference in New Delhi on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Hutchison Essar on Friday entered into a strategic alliance with Japan-based NTT DoCoMo to provide mobile Internet services to its customers.

DoCoMo will license its patented technology `i-mode' to Hutch for offering mobile Internet on GSM (Global System for Mobile communication), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) networks, Hutchison Essar Managing Director Asim Ghosh said here.

The services would be launched next year.

However, to access Internet through the new technology, users would have to change their mobile handsets as the phones currently sold in India did not have the i-mode compatibility, Mr. Ghosh said.

The company would initially import i-mode-enabled handsets, but it is open to talks with local handset manufacturers, he added. — PTI

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