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NTT DoCoMo - Company Report
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NTT DoCoMo is Japan's leading wireless telecommunications service provider and one of the largest cellular phone service operators in the world as measured by total number of cellular subscribers, with an aggregate cellular subscriber base of approximately 52.10 million and an estimated domestic market share of 55.5% as of September 30, 2006. The company conducts its business together with its 99 subsidiaries and 13 affiliates. The company's most significant subsidiaries are its eight regional subsidiaries, each of which operates in a region of Japan. DoCoMo offers a range of mobile telecommunications services, including 2G (mova) and 3G (FOMA) services, packet communications services (wireless data communications services using packet switching), Personal Handyphone System (PHS, a wireless data and voice platform that enables customers to access the Internet, as well as to make calls), Quickcast (paging) services, and satellite mobile communications services, primarily on its own nationwide networks. In addition, DoCoMo sells handsets and related equipment primarily to agent resellers who in turn sells such equipment to end-user customers. DoCoMo ceased accepting new applications for Quickcast services as of June 30, 2004 and announced its decision to terminate paging services as of March 31, 2007. DoCoMo also ceased accepting new subscriptions for PHS services as of April 30, 2005 and announced plans to terminate these services by the end of December 2007. DoCoMo was incorporated in August 1991 as NTT Mobile Communications Planning Co Ltd. It was later renamed as NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc in April 1992. The company assumed its present name, NTT DoCoMo, in April 2000. As of September 30, 2006, NTT Corporation, the fixed-line operator that is 33.72%-owned (38.5% of the voting rights) by the Japanese government, owned 62.9% of DoCoMo's outstanding voting shares and 59.05% of the company's issued stock. NTT DoCoMo's remaining issued shares were held by: foreign corporations (15.63%); financial institutions (9.98%); individuals and others (7.79%); treasury stock (6.10%); and, other corporations (1.46%).
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