Message from UQ president, Mr. Akio Nozaka

- 1.16million total subscribers -
  In July 2009, UQ started commercial services based on mobile WiMAX technology, aiming to create the experience of high-speed Internet that could be used anywhere.

 Today, we have deployed over 15,500 base stations, and our service coverage has expanded to more than 650 districts across Japan, including all government-designated major cities and prefectural capitals. We have now achieved over 95% population coverage across these government-designated major cities.

 We have also strived to increase the variety of WiMAX devices in the market. For example, several computer makers have released WiMAX-embedded laptops, and an assortment of mobile Wi-Fi routers 'WiMAX Speed Wi-Fi' are now available. WiMAX router devices offer high speed WiMAX connections to portable Wi-Fi devices anytime, anywhere, creating a new value benchmark in high-speed mobile Internet.

 With our 'open model' policy, many MVNOs have started providing WiMAX services and the number of MVNOs has now reached 55. Thanks to our MVNOs and our customers, the number of total WiMAX subscribers has grown to 1.16 million, as of the end of August, 2011.

- Toward the Future -
  For users who have WiMAX embedded laptops, UQ started 'World WiMAX' which offers WiMAX connectivity while outside Japan. World WiMAX was started in September 2010 with Clearwire of the US, and in January 2011 KT of Korea was added.

 Meanwhile, through fiscal 2011, as we have expanded our WiMAX coverage, UQ is promoting beyond-PC uses of mobile Internet to encourage growth of non-PC-centric applications.

 UQ also plans to enhance our high-speed Internet capability by introducing WiMAX2. WiMAX2 technology is based on the IEEE 802.16m standard, which was finalized in March 2011, and soon afterward approved by the WiMAX Forum in May 2011.UQ held a public field demonstration of WiMAX2 in Tokyo in July 2011. At this event, UQ successfully demonstrated over 150Mbps downlink speeds, and drawing attention from international government and industry representatives.

 On behalf of all of the UQ Communications employees, I pledge to continue our efforts to bring people a more convenient 'connected life' with next generation high speed mobile Internet services.

Akio Nozaka
President
UQ Communications Inc.
September, 2011