NTT Docomo

"Docomo" redirects here. Not to be confused with COCOMO, Kokomo, Kodomo, Komodo, Comodo, or Tata Docomo.
NTT Docomo, Inc.
Native name
株式会社NTTドコモ
Kabushiki gaisha Entiti Dokomo
Company typeSubsidiary KK
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded14 August 1991; 33 years ago (1991-08-14)
HeadquartersSanno Park Tower
Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
Kazuhiro Yoshizawa (CEO)[1]
ProductsPDC, i-mode, W-CDMA, FOMA, HSDPA, LTE, 5G NR, PHS
RevenueIncrease ¥6.06 trillion (2022)[2]
Increase ¥1.09 trillion (2022)[2]
Increase ¥771.8 billion (2022)[2]
Total assetsDecrease ¥10.2 trillion (2022)[2]
Total equityDecrease ¥6.95 trillion (2022)[2]
Number of employees
27,558 (2019)[3]
ParentNippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
Divisions
  • R&D Innovation Division
  • Network Division
  • Product Marketing Division
  • Consumer Services Company
Subsidiaries
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Websitewww.nttdocomo.co.jp
Logo used from 1991 to 2008

NTT Docomo, Inc. (株式会社NTTドコモ, stylized as NTT DoCoMo until 2008)[A], also known as Docomo (ドコモ, Dokomo), is a Japanese mobile phone operator owned by the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese.[5] The company is headquartered in Sanno Park Tower, Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo.[6] Docomo provides phone, video phone (FOMA and some PHS), i-mode (internet), and mail (i-mode mail, Short Mail, and SMS) services. It is the largest wireless carrier in Japan, with 82.632 million subscribers as of March 2021.[7]

Docomo was spun off from NTT in August 1991 to take over the mobile cellular operations. NTT held a majority stake in the company until Docomo's re-privatization in 2020.

It provides 2G (mova) PDC cellular services, 3G (FOMA) W-CDMA, 4G LTE and 5G NR services. Its businesses also included PHS (Paldio), paging, and satellite. Docomo ceased offering a PHS service on January 7, 2008. In late 2020, Docomo was bought back by NTT for about $40 billion.[8]

  1. ^ "About NTT DOCOMO". Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  2. ^ a b c d e "NTT DOCOMO Group Financial Position and Results" (PDF). NTT DoCoMo. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-09-18. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
  3. ^ "NTT Docomo Integrated Report 2020" (PDF). NTT Docomo. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-09-18. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
  4. ^ "会社の沿革". Archived from the original on 2021-04-16. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
  5. ^ Friedman, Thomas (2006). The World Is Flat. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. p. 197. ISBN 9780374292799.
  6. ^ "Headquarters Location Archived 2013-02-16 at the Wayback Machine." NTT Docomo. Retrieved on March 7, 2010.
  7. ^ "Number of subscribers by Carriers|TCA". Tca.or.jp. Archived from the original on 2022-01-19. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  8. ^ "Japan's NTT launches $40 billion buyout of wireless unit Docomo". Reuters. 2020-09-29. Archived from the original on 2021-04-11. Retrieved 2021-03-28.


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