As the mobile arm of Japan's leading telecommunications carrier, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. was spun off from its parent company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), in 1992. The corporate name was officially changed from NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. to NTT DoCoMo, Inc. in April 2000. The leading mobile communications company in Japan, NTT DoCoMo has a network covering the entire country.
On November 1, 1999 NTT DoCoMo USA, Inc. was established with its original headquarters located in San Jose, California. As of July 9, 2001, the USA headquarters was officially moved to its current location in New York City. With offices in New York, Washington DC, and a research lab facility in San Jose, California, the main purpose of NTT DoCoMo USA is to strengthen its global competitiveness as it upgrades the services it offers worldwide.
In the United States, DoCoMo USA launched its first service offering with the start of "namikiteru" service on November 1st, 2004. A Public Wireless LAN access service for Japanese-speaking residents in the United States, namikiteru service is the first step for DoCoMo USA to bring multimedia offerings to the U.S. and deliver meaningful content to consumers. More information about namikiteru can be found in the "News & Events" section of our website.
In Japan, NTT DoCoMo is the country’s premier mobile communications company, providing wireless voice and data communications to tens of millions of subscribers with a network covering 99% of the Japanese population. In addition to high-quality voice capabilities, DoCoMo provides the phenomenally popular i-mode service, which is our mobile e-mail and Internet access via high-speed packet transmissions. FOMA, DoCoMo's 3G mobile communications platform based on W-CDMA technology, offers visual communication services including videophone and i-motion video clip distribution.
With an all digital network, NTT DoCoMo is a leader in the mobile communications market in Japan. Traffic is growing not only in voice communications but also data services and i-mode services. The company's world-class R&D division conducts research and development on leading-edge mobile communications technology. Moreover, we are making efforts to have our promising W-CDMA technology accepted as the world standard for the third-generation mobile communication system. NTT DoCoMo is continuing to push back the frontiers of mobile multimedia technology.
The name DoCoMo is derived from the first letters of the phrase "Do Communications Over the Mobile Network." In Japanese, "dokomo" means "anywhere", and thus our name aptly describes our desire to provide maximum customer satisfaction anywhere, anytime. DoCoMo is steadily making constant and concrete improvements in the reliability and convenience of our services. We will accomplish this by responding flexibly to technological progress and the changing lifestyles of users.
