NTT DoCoMo

is the Mobile operator number one of the market to the Japan (54,2% in April 2007). Officially the name comes from Japanese Telecom and Telegraph (NTT, holding to which the company belongs belongs) and from the abbreviation of the sentence Do Communications Over the Mobile Network , but also means “anywhere” in Japanese.

It markets the mobile telephone service in PDC (2G) (“mova”) , in I-mode, W-CDMA and HSDPA (3G and 3G+) (“Foma”) in Japan. It will put an end to its service PHS (Personal System Handy-phon) in January 2008.

Group NTT DoCoMo is divided into 9 company geographically set out again:

NTT DoCoMo Hokkaido (Hokkaido)
NTT DoCoMo Tohoku (Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima)
NTT DoCoMo also called NTT DoCoMo Chuô (=center) (Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Niigata, Yamanashi, Nagano)
NTT DoCoMo Hokuriku (Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui)
NTT DoCoMo Tokay (Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie)
NTT DoCoMo Kansai (Shiga, Kyoto, Kagawa, Ehime, Kochi)
NTT DoCoMo Chugoku (Tokushima, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi)
NTT DoCoMo Shikoku (Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi)
NTT DoCoMo Kyushu ( Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, Okinawa)

NTT DoCoMo is, inter alia, at the origin of technologies I-mode and DoPa.

See too

Japanese Telegraph and Telephone

External bonds

Official site
NTT Docomo Photographs of illustration

Zh-min-nan: NTT DoCoMo

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