Gerhard Fasol

Fasol is works with Japan's telecom ecosystem since 1984, when he came first to Japan to help build an R&D cooperation with NTT Labs on semiconductor lasers. After working on semiconductors at Cambridge University, as Manager of one of Hitachi's labs, and as faculty on the NTT Telecommunications Chair at Tokyo University, he founded the company Eurotechnology Japan KK in Tokyo in 1996/1997. He initiated and managed a "Sakigake" (Pioneer) R&D project on Spin-Electronics (for next generation memories) for Japan's Science and Technology Agency STA. Eurotechnology develops business, sells, helps with M&A, and works with the investment industry. Eurotechnology focuses on mobile communications and environmental technologies - green tech. Fasol has a PhD in Physics from Cambridge University, UK. He reads, writes, negotiates, presents and dreams in Japanese.

3G mobile diversity in China

China’s Ministry MIIT granted three different 3G cellphone licenses on January 7, 2009:
* a TD-SCDMA license to China Mobile (457 million GSM subscribers)
* a wCDMA license to China Unicom (133 million GSM subscribers)
* a CDMA2000 license to China Telecom (43 million CDMA subscribers acquired in 2008 from China Unicom, 216 million fixnet phone subscribers, [...]