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Docomo Home U and Softbank's missed opportunity

Docomo has beaten Softbank on the fixed-mobile convergence front by announcing its Home U service which basically allows users to connect their mobile through wifi to access Docomo services and, most importantly, place VoIP calls.

This is hardly revolutionary but a big deal in a country with control freak carriers but I always thought Softbank would be the first to roll out this service: Softbank and its Yahoo! BB ISP already have an extensive broadband network in place using wifi routers and offering VoIP calls.

Softbank really dropped the ball on this one.

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Posted on 2008-06-05 2008-06-05