NEC, Casio, Hitachi merging their mobile phone operations

NEC, Casio, Hitachi merging their mobile phone operations

NEC, Casio, Hitachi have announced that they are collaborating together to merge their mobile phone operations.

These three companies are aiming to have a single entity manage their mobile operations by April next year.

The companies said that they decided to take this step to become more competitive in the mobile phone market.

Casio and Hitachi already have a joint venture operations and NEC would be joining them.

The companies said that they would now share their designs and mobile technologies to boost the development of new exciting products.