Japan's wireless market week wrap-up

Vodafone inks deal to unload Japanese unit
Vodafone Group reportedly has reached a deal to sell a 98% stake in Vodafone K.K. to Softbank. Softbank may pay as much as 2 trillion yen ($17.2 billion) for 98 percent of Vodafone K.K.

Japanese 3G mobile phone users exceed 50 percent
According to the Telecommunications Carriers Association, more than half of Japan's 90.8 million mobile phone users are on high-speed 3G networks.

DoCoMo unveil basic 3G FOMA SIMPURE series
NTT DoCoMo announced that they have developed the 3G FOMA SIMPURE series of basic and compact handsets for people who do not require highly sophisticated functions.

Openwave reports 20m KDDI users
Openwave Systems announced that more than 20 million of EZweb subscribers are using Openwave products and solutions to power KDDI mobile phone services using the WAP2.0 and TCP/HTTP standard protocols.