Today the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) posed questions to the Radio Regulatory Council (Chairman: Junichi Hamada, The President of University of Tokyo) regarding authorization of the plan for establishing specified base stations in order to introduce the 3.9-Generation Mobile Communications System. It answered that all the applications for establishment plans were appropriate for approval, and the plans were approved.
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The MIC has installed infrastructure towards the introduction of the 3.9-Generation Mobile Communications System, an upgrade to the 3rd-Generation Mobile Communications System, and on April 3, 2009, the ministry settled on guidelines related to the establishment of specified base stations in order to introduce the 3.9-Generation Mobile Communications System.
From that day until May 7 of the same year, MIC accepted applications for approval of plans related to the establishment of specified base stations under the establishment guidelines. Applications were received from the following entities: E-Mobile Ltd.; NTT Docomo, Inc.; Softbank Mobile Corp.; KDDI Corporation; Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company.
The approved applicants have been designated to operate within the following frequencies:
1475.9 – 1485.9 MHz:Softbank Mobile Corp.
1485.9 – 1495.9 MHz:KDDI Corporation/Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company
1495.9 – 1510.9 MHz:NTT Docomo, Inc.
1844.9 – 1854.9 MHz:E-Mobile Ltd.

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