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NTT DoCoMo announces £5bn share issue
News NTT DoCoMo is looking at the best way to finance its AT&T investment and confirmed it is considering bank loans for further funding. US listed shares in DoCoMo finished 3.2 per cent down at the close of business yesterday to $86.86, further... [11 Jan 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. The proceeds will also help pay for its $9.8bn investment in a 16 per... [22 Dec 2000]
NTT DoCoMo's $6bn US 3G bet
News Starting on Tuesday, AT&T Wireless has exactly two years to roll out NTT DoCoMo's new wireless network on a revised schedule, and $6.2bn in AT&T Wireless stock says it will be on time. NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, invested... [02 Jan 2003]
NTT takes massive hit for underperforming investments
News Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo is set to write down the value of its overseas investment by more than 50 per cent. NTT said it will announce the full extent of the write down on Friday, based on the closing price of ATT wireless stock, DoCoMo... [28 Mar 2002]
John Lamb's Week (4/12/00): Who wants to help an e-millionaire?
Comment But the hottest ticket at the show will undoubtedly be to hear Keiji Tachikawa, president of NTT DoCoMo. 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... [04 Dec 2000]
BT and AT&T buy into Japanese market
News The British and US telcos now plan to challenge both NTT's fixed-line business and NTT DoCoMo, its cellular subsidiary. Until last week analysts still believed the BT-AT&T pairing could strike some kind of deal with NTT, Japan's dominant telco. [26 Apr 1999]
iMode moves into WAP's European waters
News DoCoMo has a 15 per cent stake in KPN and a $1.2bn, 20 per cent stake in Hutchinson 3G UK Holdings, which owns part of three of the five UK 3G licences. TIM and DoCoMo have had a technical alliance since 1997. [19 Jan 2001]
NTT details record losses
News A large part of the adjustment reflects the dipping value of investments made by subsidiary NTT DoCoMo in AT&T Wireless in the US, Hutchison 3G UK and KG Telecom in Taiwan. NTT, Japan's largest telecoms carrier, has said it will report an... [05 Apr 2002]
NTT in financial crisis
News According to reports in the Financial Times, some assets will be sold off, although there are currently no plans to divest its 64 per cent-owned mobile phone subsidiary NTT DoCoMo. NTT is also expected to cut spending, particularly in R&D. [26 Oct 2001]
AT&T submits SEC filing for wireless spin-off
News The Japanese telco's NTT DoCoMo spin-off is now worth more than its former parent. The float will be the largest ever in the US, and mirrors the divestiture of NTT's mobile arm. AT&T has submitted a filing to the US Securities and Exchange... [29 Mar 2000]
Morning Edition: Telco deals and Wembley is going, going... gone
News First up, the Financial Times believes Japan's largest mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMo, is about to secure a stake in AT&T Wireless. According to the paper, NTT is looking at a 10 to 20 per cent stake at a cost of up to $10bn. [31 Oct 2000]
Vodafone gobbles up Japan Telecom
News The group also has to compete with Japan's number one telco, NTT DoCoMo, which is launching its 3G services next month. But he does not think Vodafone will be able to catch up with NTT DoCoMo. The UK operator has bought an extra 21.7 per cent on... [20 Sep 2001]
3G roll-outs show lack of Eastern promise
News Rival NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile network operator, plans to launch mobile networks in May 2001. BT offshoot Manx Telecom is due to launch a 3G network on the Isle of Man by May, racing NTT DoCoMo to be the first 3G network in the world. [06 Mar 2001]
Cheat Sheet: i-mode
Cheat Sheet On the back of its domestic success, NTT DoCoMo has struck deals which may see AT&T Wireless and Taiwan's KG Telecom as well as European operators Telefonica, TIM in Italy, and KPN Mobile (with networks in Holland, Belgium and Germany) take up... [08 Nov 2001]
DoCoMo deal will overthrow Europe's mobile advantage
News NTT DoCoMo is already forging ahead with plans to roll out iMode services in Europe through Dutch company KPN and as it does the same with AT&T in the US, Hold said, BT Cellnet "will have to look closely at the competitive impact on its own... [30 Nov 2000]
