Hipfox - Emobile to launch world’s 1st fixed-rate broadband wireless services - TOKYO — Emobile Ltd announced Monday it will launch what it says are the world’s first fixed-rate broadband wireless services next month in Japan with a keyboard-equipped handset. Emobile, set up in January 2005 as a wholly owned subsidiary of broadband service operator eAccess Ltd, will be the first new company to tap into Japan’s increasingly competitive wireless market in 13 years.
The new handset can download data at a rate up to 3.6 megabits per second. The monthly fixed-rate basic charge is USD $50.