TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it added 299,000 new customers during July, which was roughly 57 percent of the 528,000 total wireless customers the Japanese wireless industry signed for the month. Of the carrier's total net additions, only 12,900 signed up for DoCoMo's FOMA third-generation...
TOKYO-Gartner Japan, a Japanese business unit of Gartner Group, has predicted the mobile handset market on a unit basis will expand at an annual increasing rate of 5.3 percent between 2001 and 2006 in Japan, however, NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service will not take off...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo will set up a demonstration room for FOMA in the New York office of AT&T Wireless in the fourth quarter. Visitors of the demonstration room near Central Park will be able to experience 384 kilobits per second (kbps) data transmission service, television...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it may cut back its current 16-percent stake in AT&T Wireless due to the U.S. carrier's declining stock price, even though DoCoMo recently increased its investment in AT&T Wireless to maintain its current holding, following AT&T Wireless' stock-based purchase of...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to roll out a dual network service, allowing its FOMA third-generation service subscribers to use the same phone number for both their FOMA service and PDC service, beginning next month. The plan should help alleviate some of the...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will lead a consortium of 35 companies conducting field trials using a newly developed FOMA mobile communications platform enabling multiple people to participate in mobile video conferencing.The platform allows a phone screen to split into four windows to show...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will develop next-generation FOMA handsets equipped with a dual browser capable of handling both i-mode-compatible HTML and WAP 2.0-compatible XHTML by the end of this year. The move is expected to make it easier for content providers to supply...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc., the leading mobile carrier in Japan, announced its net income for the fiscal year ending March 31 was merely $6.2 million due to large special losses that DoCoMo posted from its overseas investments. DoCoMo posted a total of $6.3 billion in...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will begin licensing patents for its proprietary W-CDMA technology in an attempt to encourage worldwide implementation and reduce procurement and production costs.DoCoMo's W-CDMA network, which is not directly compatible with what European operators hope to eventually deploy, is currently...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it would offer discounts to its wireless customers in celebration of its tenth anniversary. The discounts will apply to communications charges for its PDC and FOMA phones used on weekdays; PHS communications charges and FOMA short message communications charges; free...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest telecom operator in Japan, on 1 April launched its third-generation (3G) service based on cdma2000 1x technology, entering the highly competitive Japanese high-speed data market.In Japan, NTT DoCoMo, the country’s leading operator, launched its 3G service under the brand name of...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said has begun to concentrate on profits instead of sales following reports the wireless company will fall short of its originally forecasted subscribers additions to its recently introduced third-generation FOMA service.While still the dominate wireless provider in Japan, DoCoMo reported signing...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, launched third-generation (3G) service based on cdma2000 1x on 1 April. NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, which launched its 3G service called FOMA in October 2001 expanded its service area to all major cities...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, in the third quarter will launch an experiment for a fourth-generation (4G) mobile service, which will be able to provide 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) data transmission speed, DoCoMo announced on 18 March.DoCoMo is targeting to...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest operator in Japan, will launch its third-generation (3G) service based on cdma2000 on 1 April, the carrier announced.In Japan, NTT DoCoMo launched FOMA 3G services in October 2001, and J-Phone, a Vodafone Group company, is planning to launch its 3G service...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo. the leading mobile carrier in Japan, plans to launch a wireless local area network (WLAN) service in April. According to the firm, DoCoMo will develop a datacard-type mobile terminal with functions of FOMA, NTT DoCoMo's third-generation (3G) service, and WLAN. NTT Communications,...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo launched its FOMA mobile communications platform, enabling numerous people to participate in a mobile video conference. If four people or less are involved in a video conference, the platform, which is designed to work with the carrier's wireless video phones, allows a...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. launched its FOMA mobile communications platform enabling numerous people to participate in a mobile video conference. If four people or less are involved in a video conference, the platform, which is designed to work with the carrier's wireless video phones, allows...
TOKYO—The number of mobile Internet users in Japan exceeded 50 million riding on the country's i-mode boom. The Telecommunications Carriers Association, an industry association, on 7 March announced the number of users of mobile Internet services, including NTT DoCoMo's i-mode customers, as of the...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo and Oracle said they plan to collaborate on the technology and development of advanced mobile enterprise solutions, as well as sales and marketing to promote mobile communications products and services to existing customers and explore new market opportunities worldwide.In particular, the companies...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—The market for wireless enterprise services continues to heat up today, with several companies positioning themselves to give mobile workers access to corporate information.The most notable announcement came from software giant Oracle Corp. and Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo. The two companies...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo said it plans to introduce a "dual network" system, which will enable users who own both a FOMA third-generation handset and conventional PDC DoCoMo mobile phone to use the same phone number for both handsets.Between 1 April and 31 August, DoCoMo customers...
TOKYO—NEC and Matsushita Communication Industrial, two leading telecom vendors in Japan, on Thursday announced they will develop two-chip third-generation (3G) handsets. NEC and Matsushita, both FOMA venders for NTT DoCoMo, last August partnered for 3G handset development to reduce huge research and development (R&D)...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. and its regional subsidiaries Tokai and Kansai said they will expand their respective FOMA next-generation mobile service areas in early March, with subsidiaries Hokkaido, Tohoku, Hokuriku, Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu launching FOMA services in major areas of their respective markets by...
