NTT DoCoMo to Expand FOMA 3G Service Areas

Japan : NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today that service area for its third-generation (3G) mobile phone will be expanded to an additional 43 towns and villages in the Kanto-Koshinetsu region* on June 14, 2003 and to 218 other towns nationwide by the end of this month. As a result, the expansion will raise FOMA coverage to 98% of populated areas in the Kanto-Koshinetsu region and nationwide coverage to some 93% of the population.

NTT DoCoMo will also expand the number of FOMA network base stations in existing service areas. Base stations in the Kanto-Koshinetsu region, including inside buildings and underground areas, will increase to 2,500 and nationwide they will increase to 7,000. The figures stood at 2,200 and 6,300, respectively, as of end-March 2003.

DoCoMo also announced that WORLD WING™, the FOMA international roaming service that enables subscribers to use their same mobile phone numbers overseas, will be expanded by five countries to a total of 58 on June 16, 2003. The new countries are Brazil, Canada, China, Pakistan and Vietnam. With the addition, WORLD WING will cover approximately 92% of the global destinations frequented by Japanese travelers.

The companies will continue to enhance its FOMA service both at home and abroad. FOMA is scheduled to reach 99% of Japan's population by end-March 2004 and virtually the entire population by end-March 2005. The company's In-building Mobile Communication System (IMCS) will be operating in some 1,600 buildings within existing service areas by end-March 2004. Overseas, DoCoMo will continue increasing the number of countries for the WORLD WING roaming service.

*Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata prefectures.

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