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Research and Markets: Japan's NTT DoCoMo Holds a Cellular Subscriber Base of 51.14 Million

Posted on: Friday, 10 November 2006, 00:00 CST

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c44869) has announced the addition of NTT DoCoMo Company Intelligence Report to their offering.

NTT DoCoMo is Japans leading wireless telecommunications service provider and one of the largest cellular phone service operators in the world as measured by total number of cellular subscribers, with an aggregate cellular subscriber base of approximately 51.14 million and an estimated domestic market share of 55.7% as of March 31, 2006. The company conducts its business together with its 99 subsidiaries and 13 affiliates. The company's most significant subsidiaries are its eight regional subsidiaries, each of which operates in a region of Japan.

DoCoMo offers a range of mobile telecommunications services, including 2G (mova) and 3G (FOMA) services, packet communications services (wireless data communications services using packet switching), Personal Handyphone System (PHS, a wireless data and voice platform that enables customers to access the Internet, as well as to make calls), Quickcast (paging) services, and satellite mobile communications services, primarily on its own nationwide networks. In addition, DoCoMo sells handsets and related equipment primarily to agent resellers who in turn sell such equipment to end-user customers.

DoCoMo ceased accepting new applications for Quickcast services as of June 30, 2004 and announced its decision to terminate paging services as of March 31, 2007. DoCoMo also ceased accepting new subscriptions for PHS services as of April 30, 2005 and announced plans to terminate these services by the end of December 2007.

DoCoMo was incorporated in August 1991 as NTT Mobile Communications Planning Co Ltd. It was later renamed as NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc in April 1992. The company assumed its present name, NTT DoCoMo, in April 2000.

As of March 31, 2006, NTT Corporation, the fixed-line operator that is 33.72%-owned (38.5% of the voting rights) by the Japanese government, owned 62.2% of DoCoMo's outstanding voting shares and 59.05% of the company's issued stock.

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Financial results for last four quarters (revenues, income, EBITDA, Net income, CapEx, Assets), including revenues by service area and geography where available. Annual results for last five years; breakdown of revenues by geographic and business areas, notes to financials, commentary on significant changes in the company's performance.

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Source: Business Wire

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