On April 19, 2008, it was announced that Ryuji Yamada, the current co-president of NTT Docomo, will be promoted as the president of NTT Docomo in June 2008.

Since October 2006, when the introduction to the service which allows the user to carry their original phone number with a new provider was made, NTT Docomo has lost many users to KDDI and SoftBank.

This promotion was made in order to get more users for NTT Docomo.

On October 2007, the prototype Wellness mobile phone of Japan's NTT Docomo Inc. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. was launched at CEATEC.

However, NTT Docomo was not successful in investing in foreign carriers.

Sanno Park Tower, which has the headquarters of NTT Docomo

NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building in Shibuya, Tokyo

NTT Docomo is a subsidiary of Japan's incumbent telephone operator NTT.

NTT Docomo is the creator of W-CDMA technology as well as mobile i-mode service.

NTT Docomo has more than 53 million customers ( as of March 2008 ), which is more than half of Japan's cellular market.

NTT Docomo is listed on the Tokyo ( 9437 ), London ( NDCM ), and New York ( DCM ) stock exchanges.

Masao Nakamura will stay in NTT Docomo as a director and also the senior adviser.

In July 2012, NTT Docomo acquired Italy's Buongiorno in a deal worth 209 million euros.

On January 24, 2008, NTT Docomo announced that they made connections with Google.

NTT Docomo is a founding member of the Symbian Foundation.

As one type of advertising method, there are many types of Docomodakes such as mother and father, which symbolizes the plans that NTT Docomo offers.

NTT Docomo has a wide range of foreign investments.

In December 2007, NTT Docomo and KT Freetel jointly invested 200 million USD for a total of 33 % stake in U Mobile Malaysia.

In November 2008, NTT Docomo bought a 26 % stake in Tata Teleservices for 2. 7 billion USD, the number 6 in Indian telecom industry and owned by the Tata group.

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There are so many landphone and mobile phone operator in this town. Currently Airtel, Vodafone, BSNL, Reliance ( GSM & CDMA ), MTS, Virgin, Idea, Tata Docomo, Tata Indicom, Aircel, Uninor are providing their services. Airtel provides 3G Services in this town.

Tata Teleservices, in October 2007 launched Tata Zone, an infotainment portal on Tata Docomo BREW-enabled mobile phones, in Hindi.

It has a fully computerized head post office and other 41 branch post offices, 11 telegraph offices and many telecom service providers like Aircel, Airtel, Idea cellular, Vodafone, Uninor, MTS, S-Tel, Tata Indicom, Docomo, Reliance Infocomm, and the state owned BSNL.

As a result, Docomo booked a total of about US $ 10 billion in losses, while during the same time Docomo's Japan operations were profitable.

Docomo provides phone, video phone ( FOMA and Some PHS ), i-mode ( internet ), and mail ( i-mode mail, Short Mail, and SMS ) services.

Docomo ceased offering a PHS service on January 7, 2008.

From 2008, Docomo began offering a service called the " Area Mail Disaster Information Service " which broadcasts Earthquake Early Warning messages produced by the Japan Meteorological Agency to its subscribers with compatible handsets.

Docomo had invested very large multi-billion dollar amounts in KPN, KT Freetel, AT & T Wireless, and had to write-off or sell all these investments in foreign carriers.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

An agreement was reached and they spun off a company called Jensen & Partners International ( JPI ), later TopSpeed.

The ink clung to the ball, which spun as the pen was drawn across the paper.

When the character was spun off into Frasier, his father became a central character with, in a case of retroactive continuity, the explanation that Frasier was embarrassed about his father's lowbrow attitudes and thus claimed his death.

This was later renamed BT-CORAL when British Telecom was spun off from the Post Office.

Oddly, the number 3 was involved in a wreck almost identical to that which took the life of Earnhardt: being spun out, colliding with another vehicle and being turned into the outside wall in turn number four.

In 1997, Don Yannias, a long-time associate and investment advisor of Safra, became CEO of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. A new company, Britannica. com Inc. was spun off in 1999 to develop the digital versions of the Britannica ; Yannias assumed the role of CEO in the new company, while that of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. remained vacant for two years.

To support this, and other Apollo objectives, the Gemini program was spun off to develop the capability for astronauts to work outside a two-man Earth orbiting spacecraft.

It operated using a small wheel much like that on cigarette lighters which was wound up with a key before use and which, when the trigger was pulled, spun against a flint, creating the shower of sparks that ignited the powder in the touch hole.

In the countryside, where guild rules did not operate, there was freedom for the entrepreneur with capital to organize cottage industry, a network of cottagers who spun and wove in their own premises on his account, provided with their raw materials, perhaps even their looms, by the capitalist who took a share of the profits.

The spacecraft was controlled by six RCA 1802 COSMAC microprocessor CPUs: four on the spun side and two on the despun side.

Thus, total memory capacity available to the CDH subsystem was 176K of RAM: 144K allocated to the spun side and 32K to the despun side.

The EUV was mounted on the spun section of the spacecraft.

At the British Grand Prix, Brabham was closing on Graham Hill's BRM before Hill spun off, leaving Brabham the victory.

The spare was spun up and successfully brought into service.

MIPS was so successful that SGI spun off MIPS Technologies in 1998.

Motorola Solutions is generally considered to be the direct successor to Motorola, Inc., as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off.

As a result, MIPS was spun out as an intellectual property licensing company, offering licences to the MIPS architecture as well as microprocessor core designs.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, a character that would later be spun off into an hour-long dramatic series.

In 2000, Plastic Logic was spun out of Cavendish Laboratory to develop a broad range of products using the plastic electronics technology.

The Balaban and Katz theatre division was spun off with UPT ; its trademark eventually became the property of the Balaban and Katz Historical Foundation.