The pair will collaborate on developing new 5G air interface and chipsets required for 5G devices, raising spectrum efficiency and increasing data capacity. The cunning plan is to have new 5G networks up and running by 2020.

Seizo Onoe, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at DOCOMO said:

"DOCOMO is excited to work with MediaTek, an innovator with expertise in the technical requirements of 5G," said. "The potential opportunities for 5G to enable people to connect with devices are endless. We're eager to see our 5G network inspire innovative inventions to benefit technology, life and business."

MediaTek is bringing its WorldMode chipsets allow device makers to serve operators worldwide using a single platform.

Kevin Jou, Senior Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of MediaTek:

"We are pleased to collaborate with DOCOMO on developing the best possible standard as well as user terminals for 5G cellular systems," said. "We plan to use our advanced signal processing and circuit technologies to design solutions that will meet the diverse and stringent requirements posed by 5G to ensure a successful service launch in the 2020 time frame."

NTT DOCOMO and MediaTek plan to implement the transmission experiment in both indoor and outdoor environments in 2017, and carry out new wireless interface and chipsets development from 2018 onwards.