DoCoMo USA Labs: Corporate Profile /NTT DoCoMo

Enabling the future with visionary mobile technology
Japan's premier mobile communications company, NTT DoCoMo, provides wireless voice and data communications to tens of millions of subscribers. NTT DoCoMo is the creator of W-CDMA technology, the new de facto global industry standard, as well as the groundbreaking mobile i-mode service, which was launched on February 22, 1999. At the heart of our operations is a commitment to providing customers with cutting-edge, cost-effective service and a belief that ongoing, focused research and development can help us to continually reinvent the concept of mobile communications.

i-mode on FOMA
In October 2001, NTT DoCoMo has further expanded the diversity of i-mode with the introduction of FOMA - the world's first fully commercialized third-generation service based on W-CDMA. While new services are becoming available all the time, FOMA terminals are already available supporting advanced visual communication services like videophone i-motion-NTT DoCoMo's video clip service, and i-motion mail, which enables users to e-mail video clips taken either with the built-in camera on FOMA terminals or download from i-mode sites. Such advanced services, performance and quality are made possible by the ability of FOMA to support data communications at impressive rates of up to 384Kbps.

Our Vision for the Future
The mobile revolution that began with the invention of the cellular phone is on the verge of transforming our world. Soon we will see the dawn of a "new global communications culture" in which people everywhere will use mobile terminals to access multimedia services through a borderless global network. They will also be able to communicate seamlessly with each other, anytime and anywhere, using hundreds of futuristic services such as wireless videophone and videoconferencing. By the year 2010, we anticipate a worldwide mobile communications market three times the size of today's-one that is dominated by multimedia rather than voice transmissions. Based on this vision of the future, we have put the full force of NTT DoCoMo and our corporate brand behind our current global "multimedia initiative." This initiative, which involves prodigious R&D efforts and active partnering with overseas carriers, content providers, equipment manufacturers, and others, will further stimulate consumer demand for communications services and help us to thrive in the coming era of unprecedented growth.

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