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To: foundation who wrote (33186)	3/7/2003 7:39:02 AM
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NTT DoCoMo Posts Its Biggest Monthly 3G User Growth Ever Friday March 7, 4:22 am ET TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- NTT DoCoMo Inc. (DCM or 9437) in February posted its strongest-ever monthly growth in subscribers to its third-generation wireless communications service, reflecting budding consumer demand for its newest 3G cellphone handsets, the company said Friday. Japan's mobile phone giant added 37,000 new subscribers to its 3G "FOMA" service. Its previous highest monthly total for 3G subscriber growth was 33,700 users in March 2002. DoCoMo's 3G subscriber base reached 191,500 in February. The launch last month of two new 3G handset models, made by Fujitsu Ltd. ( J.FUT or 6702) and NEC Corp. (J.NEC or 6701), which are lighter, smaller, cheaper and have longer battery lives than older models drove the subscriber growth. DoCoMo said it plans to start selling a third 3G handset model made by Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., a unit of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (MC or 6752), this month. DoCoMo is aiming for 320,000 3G subscribers by the end of March. Since DoCoMo launched its 3G service in October 2001, the service has suffered from sluggish subscriber growth, partly due to heavy, bulky and expensive handsets with short battery lives. DoCoMo's current-generation "PDC" cellphone service added 157,000 new subscribers in February, for am accumulative total of 43.04 million. Overall, DoCoMo added a net 194,000 new cellphone subscribers, bringing its entire cellphone subscriber base to 43.23 million. For its "i-mode" mobile Internet service, Japan's dominant cellular operator added 362,000 new subscribers, for an accumulative total of 36.93 million users. But DoCoMo's personal handyphone system, or PHS, service lost 22,000 subscribers, trimming the PHS subscriber base to 1.71 million. biz.yahoo.com ========== 130K subs in March to meet the target? Or after the new handset buzz, is Feb's modest 34K the high water mark? <g> Will the recalls continue?