NTT Docomo
NTT Docomo, Inc. (株式会社NTTドコモ, Kabushiki gaisha Enutītī Dokomo, formerly stylized as NTT DoCoMo until 2008) is a Japanese mobile phone operator. 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. The company is headquartered in Sanno Park Tower, Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo. 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.
Sanno Park Tower, home of NTT Docomo's headquarters | |
Native name | 株式会社NTTドコモ |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki gaisha Entiti Dokomo |
| Company type | Subsidiary KK |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 14 August 1991 |
| Headquarters | Sanno Park Tower Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Kazuhiro Yoshizawa (CEO) |
| Products | PDC, i-mode, W-CDMA, FOMA, HSDPA, LTE, 5G NR, PHS |
| Revenue | ¥6.06 trillion (2022) |
| ¥1.09 trillion (2022) | |
| ¥771.8 billion (2022) | |
| Total assets | ¥10.2 trillion (2022) |
| Total equity | ¥6.95 trillion (2022) |
Number of employees | 27,558 (2019) |
| Parent | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone |
| Divisions | Lemino |
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| ASN | 9605 |
| Website | www |
Docomo was spun off from its parent company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (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.