And NTT DoCoMo spent billions to upgrade its infrastructure to handle the high-speed wireless connections.
Dubbed SKiP, the service relies on Osaifu-Keitai (literally "wallet mobile") technology developed by comms giant NTT.
Moreover, NTT's technical demands acted as a barrier to entry for rivals both domestic and foreign.
Ntt Docomo recently reported its financial results for the 9 months ended December 31st, 2011.
Ntt Docomo -adr had an annual average earnings growth of 5.4% over the past 10 years.
NTT, Deutsche Telekom and Spain's Telefonica are also said to have been sniffing around.
We have invested in companies like NTT Data, in data communications, and Keyence, in industrial electronics.
NTT's two regional operators, embarrassingly, reported bumper profits for the year to March 31st 2000.
Hutchison has teamed up with Japan's NTT DoCoMo to roll out wireless data communications.
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NTT's fledgling rivals in Japan say that they account for 40% of operating costs.
There are reports that NTT Docomo, the biggest wireless carrier in Japan, will support Tizen.
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The NTT process involves a "super continuum" device that generates very short signals spanning light's entire spectrum.
Working for NTT, NEC gained little experience of how to operate its equipment inside a live network.
When Japan's telecoms market was liberalised in the 1990s the former monopoly operator, NTT, was forced to compete.
It was not easy for NEC to modify the complex technology it sold to NTT for other clients.
In Japan, Softbank shocked its giant rivals NTT-DoCoMo and KDDI in 2007 with the innovative White Plan.
Comprehensive net income attributable to Ntt was 364, 332 million yen for the 9 months ended December 31st, 2011.
On Monday, after a four-month delay, Japan's NTT DoCoMo is rolling out the next generation of its wireless service.
Teraoka Masao, NTT's general manager in Singapore, says he can reserve a boardroom at the headquarters with his card.
Well, NTT DoCoMo is at it again, this time dabbling in the fine art of bicycle sharing.
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In past years, NTT DoCoMo has been a high-profile participant at CTIA shows.
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The deregulation kabuki drama also includes the "break-up" of Japan's telecommunications giant, NTT.
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NTT'S answer is to pay for forays abroad by exploiting its remaining near-monopoly in local telephone traffic in Japan.
NTT's brightest young employees, for instance, all want to work at Verio, where pay and prospects are much better.
"NTT DoCoMo is more or less taking the company (AOL Japan) over, " internet analyst Ortwin Gierhake of WestLB Securities said.
China Mobile have so far stood out against iPhone subsidies for similar reasons to NTT DoCoMo, and with similar results.
NTT's obligation to offer the same level of service throughout the country, irrespective of whether that is profitable or not.
Companies submitting proposals include Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany, NTT Corp. of Japan, and in the U.S. IBM, Entrust Technologies Inc.
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He says The company seems set to release the iPhone with new carriers, in particular NTT Docomo and China Mobile.
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