Waiting for the wireless Internet
News In just 15 months, DoCoMo has built its iMode service into a wireless powerhouse serving nearly 7m users -- subscribers who use the iMode phone, which has barely 19.2Kbps access to the Net, for everything from reserving karaoke rooms to...
[July 7, 2000, 13:54]
AOL wireless: No stabilisers?
News NTT DoCoMo's iMode wireless phones have been wildly popular in Japan, with more than seven million sold in less than a year. Many industry insiders and carriers, in fact, view iMode's success as the realisation of the potential of the wireless Web.
[October 17, 2000, 11:22]
Gates and Kennard headline Wireless 2000
News The iMode service plans to adopt the pending 3G wireless network standard next year, Tachikawa said. NTT has 28 million voice subscribers, and in just the past year, 4.5 million of them have purchased wireless data service on the company's iMode...
[February 29, 2000, 13:18]
NTT DoCoMo accused of reverse domain name hijacking
News Japan's NTT DoCoMo was accused by a panel convened by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of attempting to reverse-hijack the imode.biz domain name after it lost its case to win the name from US telecoms giant AT&T.
[July 9, 2002, 15:50]
O2 launches i-mode in UK
Talkback So they're charging £3 per MB of content I'm sure you can access already, with an iMode capable phone at a cost of £2.35 per MB?
[September 29, 2005, 15:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Japanese iMode is — colourful, wide-ranging, easy to use and attractive except more expensive. Monday 26/9/2005 O2 has launched its i-mode service. It's everything that the In Japan, many services are free or low-cost: here, it's £3 a megabyte...
[September 30, 2005, 19:15]
DoCoMo's i-mode user base hits 24.6m
News With slightly more than a week to go before the end of the month, the company's executive director Takeshi Natsuno said he expects the number of subscribers for iMode to hit 25 million by the end of June.
[June 21, 2001, 9:45]
Japanese standard could challenge WAP in Europe
News The WAP standard has been beset by criticism for inferiority to iMode, occasional incompatibility problems and failure to colonise many handsets. The mobile Web standard used by DoCoMo, Japan's dominant mobile Internet provider, could be set to...
[June 23, 2000, 16:35]
Mobile gaming takes over the world
News The study does not, however, include consideration of the Japanese mobile market, which is arguably more advanced than that of Western Europe and where DoCoMo's iMode Internet phone standard is already offering games more advanced than those seen...
[September 5, 2000, 14:38]
How Intel plans to survive the downturn
News The DoCoMo iMode service has 26 million subscribers, and Japan is not an isolated test case," Smith said. The apparent paradox -- declining industry revenues during a period of increasing customer use -- was the central theme in Intel's biannual...
[October 31, 2001, 10:16]
Qualcomm courts European developers for GSM Brew-up
News One of the key things for Europe is to tie in with existing platforms to support Java, iMode or whatever," he said. Qualcomm is gearing up its Brew software development platform, which the company claims can provide better, faster and more engaging...
[February 12, 2004, 16:25]
