KDDI and TV Asahi Announce Collaboration on Terrestrial Digital 1-SEG Broadcasting -Commercial Services to Begin in April 2006.Tokyo, Japan, Mar 27, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) Newswire) - KDDI and TV Asahi This article is about the television network in Japan. For other uses, see Asahi. TV Asahi Corporation (株式会社 テレビ朝日 are pleased to announce collaborative TV program connecting services for mobile phone and broadcast TV, along with a terrestrial digital broadcasting Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital data rather than analogue waveforms to carry broadcasts over television channels or assigned radio frequency bands. It is becoming increasingly popular for television usage (especially satellite television) but is having a 1-SEG services, from April 2006. KDDI and TV Asahi have been conducting on-going experiments merging and revitalizing existing service solutions offered by both in the fields of communications and broadcasting through the use of new media such as terrestrial digital broadcasting. The companies have now decided to take advantage of the launch of 1-SEG broadcasting to convert experiments carried out to date into the provision of commercial services. With the launch of 1-SEG, KDDI and TV Asahi will combine TV broadcasting and mobile phone services to: - Develop sales promotions and awareness promotions tied to advertising through television media and datacasting; - Develop TV shopping and on-line shopping by linking merchandise packages to TV program content; - Verify feasibility and effectiveness of developing on-line content linked to TV Asahi programs. - Implement trial service connecting 1-SEG service broadcast by TV Asahi to the various EZweb services offered by KDDI, and verify for future commercial production. KDDI, the first company to scommercialize 1-SEG compatible mobile handsets, will use actual televised programs transmitted through the terrestrial network, providing platforms for EC businesses and content providers such as au Shopping Mall and Matomete au Shiharai ("all-in-one au payment"). TV Asahi, which possesses the know-how to produce and implement large-scale interactive programs, will establish business models to link next-generation mobile communications and broadcasting. About KDDI Corporation KDDI (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : 9433) is a diversified telecommunication operator formed by the merger of DDI ddI and ddC: see AZT. , KDD KDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (International Conference) KDD Knowledge Discovery in Databases KDD Kokusai Denshin Denwa (Japan) KDD Key Distribution Device and IDO Ido (ē`dō), short name of Esperandido, an artificial language that is a simplified version of Esperanto. See international language. in 2000, and is the only domestic company that provides both mobile communication service and broadband service See broadband and broadband service provider. . The number of subscribers to the mobile phone services under the au and TuKa brands is over 24 million, and fixed-line subscribers (MyLine) are approximately 9 million. The 73 KDDI group companies have more than 8,300 and turnover of 2,920 billion yen in 2005. At KDDI, aggressive improvement of the communications environment in preparation for the coming ubiquitous network society is underway and KDDI is aiming to become a "ubiquitous solution company" which provides high value-added solutions. For more information, please visit www.kddi.com. Source: KDDI Corporation Contact: Sarah Hall Japan Coporate News for KDDI Corporation sarah@japancorp.net +81-3-5791-1821 Copyright [c] 2006 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. A division of Japan Corporate News Network K.K. |
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