docomo i-mode
RSS docomo i-mode"Wot, no handsets?" DoCoMo warns of i-mode delay
News Japanese mobile giant DoCoMo has warned that the failure of handset manufacturers to deliver GPRS phones on time will delay the roll-out of its European i-mode service. NTT DoCoMo invested $3.2bn for a 16 per cent stake in KPN to get a foothold in... [17 Jul 2001]
NTT DoCoMo Nasdaq listing to finance i-mode push
News NTT DoCoMo will be the first operator in the world to roll out third generation mobile services in May next year - a process that is expected to cost at least $9bn in itself. According to the Financial Times, the money will be used to fund the... [22 Dec 2000]
Cheat Sheet: i-mode
Cheat Sheet Well, kind of.i-mode is a proprietary mobile data service owned by Japan's NTT DoCoMo. Jealous execs from equipment companies still hyping WAP have called i-mode "a DoCoMo intranet". On the back of its domestic success, NTT DoCoMo has struck deals... [08 Nov 2001]
AOL and DoCoMo serve up email on i-mode
News The wireless internet service, branded AOLi, will give subscribers access to their emails using DoCoMo's i-mode phones. The two companies forged an alliance last year, giving DoCoMo 42.3 per cent of AOL Japan, which was then renamed DoCoMo AOL. [22 May 2001]
i-mode comes to Spain
News Telefonica will launch DoCoMo's i-Mode platform in Spain next year after it licensed the Japanese technology. Mobile operators in Belgium, France, Germany and Holland have already licensed i-Mode and DoCoMo is said to be in talks with Italian... [24 Jul 2002]
Have DoCoMo and 3 fallen out over data services?
News Third generation mobile phone operator 3 has rubbished suggestions that it has fallen out with DoCoMo over that company's i-mode data services, claiming all is still rosy between the two firms. Newspaper reports had claimed DoCoMo, a major investor... [16 Sep 2003]
mmO2 gets into bed with Japanese giant for i-mode deal
News mmO2 has announced it's signed with NTT DoCoMo to offer the Japanese giant's i-mode mobile internet service on its network. Peter Erskine, mmO2's CEO, said the operator had taken into account the rise in ARPU that other licensees in Europe had... [30 Nov 2004]
Developer worries see WAP turning Japanese
News NTT DoCoMo, who owns i-mode but is also a board member of the WAP Forum, recently announced its plans to move into the European market amid growing dissatisfaction with WAP. NTT DoCoMo is pushing hard for cHMTL to be included in future WAP... [10 Jul 2000]
Gemplus Success Story - NTT DoCoMo
White Paper In October 2001, NTT DoCoMo launched the world first 3G commercial network, "FOMA - Freedom for Multimedia Access". G only, as the 2G DoCoMo network, PDC, did not require the use of a SIM and therefore there was no question of roaming between their... [11 Mar 2005]
3's not much of a crowd as DoCoMo considers split
News DoCoMo is reportedly unimpressed by the returns it's been receiving from its £930m investment in 3 due to the company's low subscriber figures in the UK, as well as the 3G company's refusal to adopt DoCoMo's i-mode data-services platform. [02 Mar 2004]
John Lamb's Week (4/12/00): Who wants to help an e-millionaire?
Comment Last week the Japanese mobile phone company signed a deal with AT&T of the US that will see DoCoMo's i-mode high speed wireless system enter the US market. The deal, which involves DoCoMo taking a 16 per cent stake in AT&T for $10bn, is a... [04 Dec 2000]
First 3G phones on the way
News NTT DoCoMo will be the first telco to produce 3G mobile phones, to be unveiled next week. The DoCoMo name for the 3G service is FOMA (Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access). The long awaited devices will take the form of three models: a folding... [28 Sep 2001]
'Stingy' telcos stifling mobile content provision
News Mobile content developers have long been lobbying the networks to adopt a business model similar to that embraced by Japan's NTT DoCoMo, whose i-mode service has 24 million subscribers, and is expected to generate $3.5bn in fiscal 2001.i-mode... [19 Jul 2001]
3GSM: Mobile expectations - the lessons of DoCoMo
News DoCoMo is Japan's leading provider of mobile communications and, especially after the success of its i-mode mobile data service in the late 1990s, saw eyes from around the world looking at its progress. [16 Feb 2005]
Vodafone takes battle to NTT DoCoMo's door
News DoCoMo partner KPN Mobile is currently rolling out i-mode-style data services in Germany and Holland and in the autumn will do so in Belgium too. In a statement telecoms market research specialist EMC, producer of the latest statistics, said: "The... [13 Jun 2002]
