ntt docomo in comment and analysis
ITU 03 diary - Access to wireless, TV channels and flight details on the go
Comment His presentation featured plenty of detail about CDMA2000 - used by KDDI in Japan yet generally overshadowed by what NTT DoCoMo and Japan Telecom are doing with ‘the other standard’ - but most notably an... [15 Oct 2003]
ITU 03 diary - a weekend of two halves
Comment Should we be surprised if the absence of European giants such as Alcatel, Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens and Vodafone is literally overshadowed by the giant stands of LG, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung,... [13 Oct 2003]
Giving gadget thieves the finger - biometric security moves on
Comment There is already an iPaq on the market that works in this way and today NTT DoCoMo in Japan announced a second-generation phone that can only be used when one of 10 stored fingerprints is recognised.... [09 Jul 2003]
3G for the common man
Comment At least the early figures show more people pre-registering for 3 in the UK and Italy than all NTT DoCoMo's 3G users to date - though eventual subscriber numbers will likely be lower. We've shaken our... [03 Mar 2003]
3GSM: The future's bright. The future's crustacean...
Comment Meanwhile NTT DoCoMo head honcho Keiji Tachikawa took the podium to talk mainly about m-payments and his company turning phones into wallets later this year. Despite the ongoing success of the... [21 Feb 2003]
Inside Qualcomm: a vendor dossier
Comment Given the efficiencies of being an IPR company - where Qualcomm has its highest margins - and the early roll out of its CDMA2000 1x technology in the US, South Korea (even though operators there hold W-CDMA licences) and Japan (where... [19 Nov 2002]
Look east young man - for the future of mobile communications
Comment Meanwhile, across the water in Japan, bona fide 3G users of NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service number around 160,000, according to people who know that operator well. The growth of i-mode - originally offering... [04 Sep 2002]
The Ovum View: 3G means business... or does it?
Comment NTT DoCoMo, in its initial launch of its FOMA 3G network, claimed it was targeting business users - although this seems to have been an aspiration rather than a plan, since the launch offering did not... [05 Jul 2002]
The Ovum View: The 3G World Cup - what's the score?
Comment For example, NTT DoCoMo has announced volume reduction plans of up to 12.5 per cent. The industry has certainly come a long way since France 1998, when there was no i-mode, SMS or data services. In 2002,... [31 May 2002]
Ovum On: Wireless spam
Comment The open nature of NTT DoCoMo's address system has caused problems, which the operator was initially slow to address. However, since late 2001 NTT DoCoMo has implemented... [17 May 2002]
Agenda Setters 2002 - winners and losers
Comment Chris Gent, Jorma Ollila and Keiji Tachikawa from Vodafone, Nokia and NTT DoCoMo respectively hogged positions 2, 4 and 6. For a list of individuals setting the high-tech agenda there are plenty of... [28 Apr 2002]
3GSM Review: Ovum on vendors' flight from hype
Comment There were, as ever, a multiplicity of exciting new devices, perhaps most notably the FOMA handsets on the NTT DoCoMo stand. In previous years anything labelled a reality room was almost duty bound to... [01 Mar 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Pricey Blackberry, Vodafone's Japanese adventure and Consignia
Comment NTT DoCoMo acquired the company last September for Y600bn ($8bn), since which time the slowdown has impacted Verio's data center implementation business. The announcement comes at a time when... [24 Sep 2001]
Ageism: Who's over the hill now then?
Comment Try that with Vodafone's Chris Gent (53), Nokia's Jorma Ollila (52) or NTT DoCoMo's Keiji Tachikawa (61). Ageism is rampant in the IT sector. We all know it's true. And according a survey conducted by... [14 Aug 2001]
3G heebie jeebies and being nice to BT
Comment So over to Japan, where NTT DoCoMo, itself recently the victim of a handset-shaped spanner in the works, claims to have launched 3G services. But DoCoMo remains ebullient, saying that... [01 Jun 2001]
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