NTT DoCoMo to Start Marketing Japanese Support for BlackBerry
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it will begin marketing Research In Motion’s BlackBerry® 8707h™ with Japanese-language support* on July 23. Customers using the BlackBerry 8707h will benefit from new features — Japanese input for e-mails (including text prediction) and other personal information management (PIM) applications and [...]

NTT DoCoMo Announces Termination of PHS Services
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries today announced that they will terminate Personal Handyphone System (PHS) mobile phone services on January 7, 2008. DoCoMo, having previously announced in January 2006 that PHS services would be discontinued sometime around October-December 2007, has been contacting current PHS subscribers to [...]

NTT DoCoMo Unveils New FOMA 904i Series
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today the development of five new 3G FOMA™ 904i models, the latest line-up in DoCoMo’s flagship 9 Series.
The new handsets have features that are significantly more advanced than those supported by 903i Series models. Among these features [...]

NTT DoCoMo to Sell Exclusive M702iS DOLCE & GABBANA Handset via Internet
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that the company will begin marketing, for a limited time, an exclusive, special-edition handset, the M702iS DOLCE & GABBANA, developed jointly by Dolce & Gabbana, Motorola and DoCoMo, via DoCoMo’s Internet online sales channels.
The handset, which costs 75,000 yen [...]

McDonald’s and DoCoMo to Jointly Promote e-Marketing based on Osaifu-Keitai
McDonald’s Holdings Company (Japan), Ltd. and NTT DoCoMo, Inc. today announced they have agreed to jointly promote e-marketing based on DoCoMo Osaifu-Keitai™ e-wallet services. The undertaking will include the establishment of a joint venture company to plan and manage e-marketing promotions to McDonald’s newly planned membership [...]

NTT DoCoMo Achieves 5Gbps in 4G Field Experiment
NTTDoCoMo announces 4G field test achieved transmisstion rate of 5Gbps in the downlink doubling the speed of its previous test.
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it achieved a maximum packet transmission rate of approximately 5Gbps in the downlink using 100MHz frequency bandwidth to a mobile station moving at [...]

NTT DoCoMo and Fuel Cell Firm Aquafairy Sign New Basic Agreement
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it has signed a new basic agreement with Aquafairy Co. to strengthen the joint R&D system for development of handset rechargers using Aquafairy’s hydrogen fuel cell technology.
The agreement includes details of the development process and specifies the roles of [...]

NTT DoCoMo to Offer New Flat-Rate Data Communications Billing Plans
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today they will offer the new flat-rate data communications billing plans “Pake-hodai full” and “Biz-hodai”. Beginning March 1, Pake-hodai full will enable FOMA™ i-mode™ subscribers with full-browser handsets to view not only i-mode but also PC websites [...]

Mobile Leaders Around the World Launch LiMo Foundation
To support their goal of creating the world’s first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices, Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone announced today the official launch of the LiMo Foundation.
A not-for-profit organization, the LiMo Foundation is aimed at blending the community-based [...]

Japanese Mobile Phone Operators Find No Adverse Health Effects from Base Station Radio Waves
Japan’s mobile phone operators, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., KDDI Corporation and SoftBank Mobile Corporation have confirmed that radio frequency energy from mobile phone base stations does not cause damage to human cells in vitro studies. Since November 2002, the companies have been collaborating [...]