TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it may not sign up the 150,000 subscribers to its third-generation (3G) network by the end of March it predicted when it launched the service last October. However, the carrier remains confident it will have 1.5 million subscribers to its FOMA service by the end of the next fiscal year.
“You’re right that 150,000 may be a bit tricky considering we have only about 30,000 or 40,000 now,” said Yoshinori Uda, senior executive vice president of DoCoMo, at a Salomon Smith Barney conference last week. “But, to have 1.5 million in the next fiscal year is something we’re quite confident in.”
DoCoMo recently reported it had more than 30 million subscribers to its second-generation (2G) i-mode network.
The Japanese telecom company also announced plans to launch a billing information service enabling users to monitor voice and packet transmission charges. The service, set to roll out this month, will offer graphically rich billing information.
