The NTT DoCoMo reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

NTT DoCoMo

NTT DoCoMo is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase Do Communications Over the Mobile Network, but also means "anywhere" in Japanese.

DoCoMo was spun-off from NTT in August 1991 to take over the mobile cellular operations. Its businesses now include cellular (Digital MOVA and FOMA), PHS (Paldio), paging, and satellite. DoCoMo provides 2G PDC cellular services in 800 MHz and 1.5 GHz bands (total 34 MHz bandwidth), and 3G J-WCDMA services in the 2 GHz (1945-1960 MHz) band.

DoComo is noted as the creator of the highly successful i-mode mobile Internet services which was launched in February 1999. DoCoMo also launched FOMA, the world's first commercial W-CDMA 3G mobile service in October 2001 which finally started to take off around the end of 2003.

As of December 2003, DoCoMo had 45.366 million cellular customers, among which 1.881 million were FOMA subscribers and 40.334 million were i-mode users. It has a dominating market share of 56.8%, which is declining slightly in recent years.

As of March 2004, NTT DoCoMo has the following foreign interest:

• 18% in AT&T Wireless
• 20% in Hutchison 3G UK

See also

• NTT

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This is the "NTT DoCoMo" reference article from the English Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See also our Disclaimer.