Motorola and Japan’s NEC Corporation have won orders for base stations and other equipment to build Japanese mobile phone operator KDDI Corporation’s next-generation mobile network.

Motorola and Japan’s NEC Corporation have won orders for base stations and other equipment to build Japanese mobile phone operator KDDI Corporation’s next-generation mobile network. KDDI, which also competes with Softbank Corporation, plans to build its LTE network in December 2012, two years after DoCoMo launches LTE services (in 2010). KDDI plans to invest $5.3 billion on the LTE technology. Meanwhile, NTT DoCoMo, which had lost its position as the largest wireless carrier in subscriber terms to Softbank, has regained its position after a gap of three years, the primary reason for this being its new range of smartphones.