Asian Power: China Mobile, NTT Docomo And KT Form Business Alliance

Serkan Toto

Dr. Serkan Toto is an independent consultant and advisor focusing on Japan’s web, mobile and social gaming industries. Based in Tokyo, he works together with financial institutions and startups worldwide. Serkan has been the Japan contributor for TechCrunch.com since 2008. He is sept-lingual, holds an MBA and is a PhD in economics. → Learn More

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

It can’t get bigger than this in Asia’s mobile industry, and in fact, it’s a business alliance with the potential to shake things up on a global level. Today, the world’s biggest mobile carrier China Mobile, Japan’s No. 1 player NTT Docomo and Korea’s leading telco KT have announced the establishment of a “broad-based business tie-up”.

Details are scarce at this point, but the three telecommunications giants will work together in such areas as LTE infrastructure, smartphone services, software development, roaming services, and international marketing of handsets to multinational corporations.

It looks like geographically, the alliance will be focusing on North East Asia, at least initially.

KT already entered a business partnership with China Mobile last year and also has capital ties with Docomo.

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