Tuesday, April 29, 2003

NTT DoCoMo Sells More than 10 Million Camera Phones

NTT DoCoMo has sold more than 10 million camera phones since launching the first model on 01-June-2002. The company currently offers 11 different handset models with integrated cameras. Users between the ages of 20 and 30 account for about 60% of total sales. DoCoMo recently announced new handset models offering higher resolution cameras of up to 1.3 megapixels.
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  • According to a recent NTT DoCoMo report, Japan now has 78 million mobile phone subscribers, a figure equivalent to 58% of the nation's population.


  • DoCoMo's i-mode service has 38 million uses.


  • DoCoMo's network operations center processes up to 75,000 data transmissions per second for i-mode mail and web accesses . That translates to an average of 800 million i-mode transmissions every day.


  • Out of the 25.3 million mobile phones sold by DoCoMo in fiscal 2002, approximately 15.2 million, or 60%, were replacements.