NTT DOCOMO and its eight regional subsidiaries have announced a new service that will enable DOCOMO FOMA third-generation handsets to connect to home broadband networks via wireless LAN routers.

With this new capability, mobile phone users will be able to enjoy 54 Mbps high-speed packet communication and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

With Home U, Japan's first consumer service for fixed-mobile convergence, DOCOMO FOMA phones will be able to download large-volume data, such as video, with the speed and convenience of broadband. 

Also, VoIP calls to other Home U users will be free of charge, and to non-Home U users will be 30 percent cheaper than normal FOMA charges.

In the beginning, the service will be compatible with the N906iL onefone, a mobile/W-LAN dual handset that will be sold from the same day that the service becomes available. 

NTT DoCoMo, a mobile communications company, serves more than 51 million customers, of which more than half subscribe to FOMA, launched as the world's first 3G mobile service based on W-CDMA in 2001.

Source:TMCnet