If everyone can enjoy an effective and uniform 3G technology, that will benefit users in Japan. The announcement came shortly after merger talks collapsed between KPN Mobile, a subsidiary of the Netherlands telecommunications company Royal KPN, and Spain's Telefonica. KPN's talks with the Spanish carrier broke down in part because Telefonica had demanded that the Dutch government sell its 43.5 percent stake in KPN in one month. BellSouth, meanwhile, earned option rights over KPN's stock when the two groups took control of German cellular phone group E-Plus last year. Tachikawa jokingly mentioned the 400-year anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Japanese and the Dutch.
Management is about sharing the same fighting spirit.
If you don't get along, it's over. Tachikawa said he has never identified Orange as a particular target for DoCoMo's global 3G businesses and added that there are many other mobile phone operators in Europe. He also said DoCoMo has no intention to join any 3G auctions there. Asia and Europe are the biggest of wireless markets. DoCoMo has the technology that enables it to compete equally with other international telecom giants such as Vodafone-Airtouch.