NTT Docomo

NTT Docomo Inc. is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. 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. Docomo provides phone, video phone, i-mode, and mail services.
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5G

5G in Japan: as fast as a speeding bullet train

Telco & CSP

Docomo invests in Tata Capital Growth Fund II, targeting growth-stage startup companies

5G

NTT Docomo achieves world's first 5G communication between high-speed Bullet Train and experimental base stations

O-RAN in deployment, Source: NTT Docomo

Fronthaul

NTT DoCoMo gets its O-RAN working

Radio Access Network

NTT Docomo to commence deployment of world's first 4G/5G multi-vendor RAN conforming to O-RAN specifications

Data & Analytics

NTT Docomo Ventures invests in Trifacta

5G

DoCoMo, Nokia to check whether 5G factory robots actually work

5G

NTT Docomo joins 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation

5G

NTT and NEC conclude demonstration experiments of wireless-mobile fronthaul for 5G

VR & AR

NTT Docomo Ventures invests in Light Field Lab

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Fronthaul

Fujitsu uses O-RAN standards to supply 5G antennas to NTT

Mobile

Docomo develops drone platform API for expanded drone applications

5G

NEC begins shipping 5G radio equipment to Docomo

Mobile

Docomo testing drone-based inspection service in Taiwan

Mobile

NTT Docomo to join Mobile Payment Alliance (MoPA) of LINE Pay and Merpay

OSS/BSS

Syniverse to improve mobile users’ global connectivity service in Asia

5G

Docomo, AGC and Ericsson achieve world's first 5G communication using glass antenna for 28GHz

IoT Services & Applications

DOCOMO Develops Safe, Blade-free Drone Propelled with Ultrasonic Vibrations

Finance & Banking

NTT Docomo Ventures invests in Matchmove Pay

Transport and Logistics

DOCOMO, DOCOMO USA and ITOCHU LOGISTICS to Trial IoT Solution for Delivery-fleet Management in United States

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Mobile

Japanese mobile competition warming up ahead of 5G launch

Telco & CSP

NTT Docomo agrees to sell stake in Hutchison Telephone

Short-range Wireless

NTT Docomo Ventures invests in RADAR

5G

NTT Docomo to support 5G game streaming in Japan