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Tokyo, May 24, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that two recently completed research projects conducted jointly with Japanese universities have demonstrated that mobile spatial statistics, or population statistics compiled from data used to provide mobile services, can provide useful information for planning disaster-prevention measures and urban development. If specific, practical applications are developed, it is envisioned that national...

Tokyo, May 20, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC. today announced that it has developed a prototype power amplifier for six frequency bands between 1.5 GHz and 2.5 GHz in a form factor smaller than multiple single-band power amplifiers conventionally used to provide the same function.The amplifier's compact size and six-band versatility, which eliminates the need for sets of single-band power amplifiers, will enable other components to use space normally...

TOKYO, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced on May 17 that its subsidiary NTT Com Asia Limited has begun operating a branch office in Macao effective immediately. Headed by the current EVP of Corporate Planning & Global Solution at NTT Com Asia, Tetsushi Sasago, the Macao Branch will provide multinational corporations, local companies and the Macao government with global network services, IP connectivity, data center, hosting and various ICT...

- Including biggest and most diverse lineup of smartphones - Tokyo, May 16, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today its 2011 summer lineup of 24 new mobile devices for launch on or after May 20, including nine smartphones, the largest and most diverse collection of smartphones ever released by DOCOMO, plus a wide variety of feature phones compatible with DOCOMO's i-mode(TM) mobile Internet platform, as well as mobile...

Tokyo, May 13, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it has signed an option agreement with JG Summit Holdings, Inc. (JG SUMMIT) to trade about 2% of the total issued and outstanding shares of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), worth an estimated about 263 million U.S. dollars or about 21.6 billion Japanese yen as of April 28, 2011.The option to acquire the additional shares from JG SUMMIT must be exercised within 30 days of...

Tokyo, May 13, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC. today announced that it has reached an agreement with Twitter, Inc. under which DOCOMO will leverage its mobile expertise, with support from Twitter, to develop innovative applications and services incorporating Twitter(TM) features for DOCOMO feature phones and smartphones.One of the envisioned services will bring richer search results to DOCOMO customers. Real-time Tweets(TM) and other Twitter content will...

TOKYO, Japan and SYDNEY, Australia, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) and Frontline Systems Australia Pty Ltd (Frontline) jointly announced on May 11 that NTT Com will purchase 70% of the issued shares of the Australian firm, which provides IT infrastructure, IT consulting and managed services. The alliance will enable NTT Com to expand its range of high-quality global ICT services to meet multinational companies' growing needs for globally seamless,...

TOKYO, April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Communications (NTT Com) and its three subsidiaries of NTT Plala, NTT PC Communications and NTT America jointly announced on April 28 that they will participate in World IPv6 Day, a worldwide testing of the IPv6 protocol, to demonstrate its readiness to ensure successful transition from the IPv4 environment. Sponsored and organized by the Internet Society (ISOC) and major content providers such as Google and Facebook, the event is a 24-hour testing...

TOKYO and HANOI, Vietnam, April 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Communications (NTT Com) and the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC) jointly announced on April 26 an agreement to cooperate in providing Internet service providers (ISPs) and Internet content providers (ICPs) in Vietnam with global access via NTT Com's Tier-1 network, beginning no later than the end of June. VNNIC, a Ministry of Information and Communication affiliate that manages domain names and Internet...

Will offer cross-device platform both in Japan and overseas Tokyo, Apr 25, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC. and DeNA Co., Ltd. announced today a business alliance to offer an enhanced mobile-based social-gaming platform in Japan and overseas, aiming to tap into the rapid growth of social gaming worldwide.From May, Mobage, DeNA's highly popular social networking platform centered on gaming, will be directly linked to DOCOMO's...