Largest Wireless Internet Provider

Largest Wireless Internet Provider
	WHO: NTT DoCoMo WHAT: 45,687,117 subscribers WHERE: Japan WHEN: January 2006
NTT DoCoMo (Japan) is the world's largest wireless internet provider, with 45,687,117 subscribers to their i-mode service as of January 2006. while as of March 2008 more than 53 million customers which is more than half of Japan's cellular market . 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 (FOMA and Some PHS), i-mode (internet), and mail (i-mode mail, Short Mail, and SMS) services. The company has its headquarters in the Sanno Park Tower, Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo. NTT docomo is a subsidiary of Japan's incumbent telephone operator NTT. The majority of NTT docomo's shares are owned by NTT (which is 33.71% government-owned). While some NTT shares are publicly traded, control of the company by Japanese interests (Government and civilian) is guaranteed by the number of shares available to buyers. It provides wireless voice and data communications to many subscribers in Japan. 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. The company provides a wide variety of mobile multimedia services. These include i-mode which provides e-mail and internet access to over 50 million subscribers, 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 and North America, 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. 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. Masao Nakamura will stay in NTT docomo as a director and also the senior adviser. 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.  references: 1- en.wikipedia.org 2- www.guinnessworldrecords.com