| 2nd Febuary 2006 - NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional
subsidiaries announced today three prototype high-speed downlink
packet access (HSDPA) handsets developed with Fujitsu, Motorola
and NEC, respectively. DoCoMo aims to start HSDPA services sometime
between July and September 2006.
HSDPA, a high-speed packet transmission technology standardized
by the Third Generation Partnership Project, offers a theoretical
maximum downlink speed of about 14Mbps. At present, the prototype
handsets have maximum speeds of 3.6Mbps, 10 times faster than
current 3G FOMA® handsets. HSDPA is expected to facilitate
powerful new services by enabling high-volume downloads and
the viewing of highly rich content.
The handsets will be demonstrated at the DoCoMo booth at
the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain from February
13 to 16. For details on the DoCoMo exhibit, please visit
http://www.nttdocomo.com/ presscenter/events/3gsm2006/index.html.
About NTT DoCoMo
NTT DoCoMo is the world's leading mobile communications company,
serving more than 50 million customers. The company offers
a wide variety of leading-edge mobile multimedia services,
including i-mode® which provides e-mail and Internet access
to over 45 million subscribers as the world's most popular
mobile Internet service, and FOMA®, launched in 2001 as
the world's first 3G mobile service based on W-CDMA. In addition
to wholly owned subsidiaries in Europe, North America and
Asia, the company is expanding its global reach through strategic
alliances with mobile and multimedia service providers in
Asia-Pacific and Europe.
NTT DoCoMo is listed on the Tokyo (9437), London (NDCM) and
New York (DCM) stock exchanges. For more information, visit
www.nttdocomo.com.
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