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, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, listed on both the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange simultaneously on 1 March.NTT DoCoMo said the listings in New York and London will give investors more opportunities to invest in DoCoMo, increase...
NEW YORK—NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's largest mobile communications operator, began trading its American depositary shares on the New York Stock Exchange and its common shares on the London Stock Exchange March 1."Combined with our listing earlier today on the London Stock Exchange and our...
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...
REDMOND, Washington, United States—AT&T Wireless Services completed its all-stock acquisition of the 77-percent of TeleCorp PCS it did not already own. The deal involved AT&T Wireless issuing approximately 146 million additional common shares and assuming US$2.1 billion in net debt and approximately US$221 million...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, on 18 February announced it will launch i-mode-like service in Germany in March or April through its partner, E-Plus. Based on the basic agreement, NTT DoCoMo will transfer and license technologies for i-mode like service to...
CANNES, France—The GSM Association continued to move forward with its wide-ranging M-Services Initiative, announcing the second phase of the program, broad support from the supplier community, and a series of task forces to help develop the wireless data market.The association said its phase two...
CANNES, France—The GSM Association presented several awards at the 3GSM World Congress this week."Once again, our industry has surpassed itself," said Rob Conway, chief executive officer of the GSM Association. "The sheer diversity, innovation and technological excellence demonstrated by all the entries made the...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in Japan, announced the average revenue per user (ARPU) of FOMA, DoCoMo's new third-generation (3G) service, was 10,400 yen (US$78) during the three months from October to December. The total ARPU for DoCoMo's 39.6 million mobile-phone users for...
TOKYO—Japanese mobile carriers are emphasizing location services to combat increasing competition within the market.The mobile-phone market in Japan has been expanding rapidly during the past several years. However, the market, which now has 72.8 million subscribers including PHS users, is becoming saturated, and harsher...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc., the largest mobile carrier in Japan with 39.6 million cellular phone subscribers, announced that it will apply to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange in early March. Keiji Tachikawa, president of NTT DoCoMo, last...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading carrier in Japan, will on 25 January launch a new terminal developed exclusively for data communications. As part of its effort to make a breakthrough in the would-be saturated Japanese mobile market, NTT DoCoMo is emphasizing remote communications and telemetry...
TOKYO—J-Phone, a subsidiary of Vodafone Group, announced that it will launch third-generation (3G) service in Japan on 30 June. NTT DoCoMo which launched the FOMA 3G service on 1 October, is scheduled to expand its service area to all major cities around the country...
TOKYO—Sharp, a leading consumer electronics manufacturer in Japan, announced that it will launch a personal digital assistant (PDA) for FOMA, the third-generation (3G) service provided by NTT DoCoMo in Japan, during the second quarter of this year.Sharp has been successfully selling PDA terminals under...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it may not sign up the 150,000 subscribers to its third-generation network by the end of March it predicted when it launched the service last October, though the carrier remains confident it will have 1.5 million subscribers to its FOMA...
NEW YORK—NTT DoCoMo Inc., which has the largest market value of any company trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, hopes to list its shares on the London and New York stock exchanges by spring, the Japanese daily newspaper Sankei Shimbun reported December 31.The application...
1. Jan. 29Re-auction brings in record $17B to FCCAfter 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. The auction, which began Dec. 12, broke the previous record of $9.2 billion for PCS spectrum...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, announced it will purchase additional shares of AT&T Wireless Inc. to maintain its current stake in the U.S. mobile carrier. NTT DoCoMo last year acquired a 16-percent stake in AT&T Wireless, aiming to spread W-CDMA-based third-generation...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, said it terminated its talks with SK Telecom over a business alliance including an investment. The carriers have carried out the bilateral talks, aimed at providing joint mobile service at the World Cup Soccer Games to...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, announced it will purchase additional shares of AT&T Wireless Inc. to maintain its current stake in the U.S. mobile carrier. NTT DoCoMo last year acquired a 16-percent stake in AT&T Wireless, aiming to spread W-CDMA-based third-generation...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, announced it will purchase additional shares of AT&T Wireless to maintain its current stake in the U.S. mobile carrier. NTT DoCoMo last year acquired a 16-percent stake in AT&T Wireless, aiming to spread wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA)-based third-generation...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish wireless carrier Telia Mobile announced it will offer a wireless Internet service much like NTT DoCoMo's wildly popular i-mode service.Telia's service, dubbed PocketMode, features an open interface for content providers, allowing them to offer their services directly to users instead of forming...
TOKYO—Oki Electric Industry Co. and Payment First Co. launched a service enabling Internet payments for NTT DoCoMo's i-mode wireless Internet service.Payment First is a joint venture among NTT DoCoMo, Microsoft Corp., Oki, NTT Data and NTT Communications.The Inter Debit Payment Services will be offered...
