Japan’s giant mobile operators look likely to adopt the same technology for their next-generation networks, local media has reported.

The change is likely to benefit the country’s 102 million mobile users, and may belatedly remove one of the stumbling blocks that has hindered Japanese mobile phone makers’ entry into the international market.

KDDI, Japan’s second largest mobile phone operator, will probably move to the Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile standard when it rolls out its next-generation networks in the coming years.

The country’s largest mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, has already thrown its weight behind LTE and has been joined by smaller operators.

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