[Japan's KDDI President says the 1xEV-DO bit cost will become dramatically lower than the current CDMA2000 1x service fee.]

by Shinsuke Kawasaki, Tokyo -- "(KDDI) plans to start a trial service of 1xEV-DO in April 2003. KDDI has been saying that the pricing for this service could be a fully fixed rate scheme to reduce packet communications costs by introducing 1xEV-DO. But the firm now says, "A completely fixed charge rate may be difficult to implement, because many users will share the limited radio availability in the mobile service."

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