Consolidated financial results for NTT DoCoMo and its subsidiaries for the three months ending June 30, 2006. Operating Revenues were 1,218.6 bn JPY (up 2.7% YonY), operating income was 272.7 bn JPY (down 5.2% YonY), income before taxes was 274.4 bn JPY (down 22.4% Y on Y) and net income was 163.5 bn JPY (down 21.3% Y on Y). The significant dip in year-on-year returns is attributed to the company’s sale of Hutchinson 3G assets in the compared period of 2005. The analyst meeting live video cast will begin here shortly (WWJ subscribers log in to access mp3 audio of Q&A session with media, in English).

We have the Q&A session as an .mp3 file here (runtime approx. 60 mins; file size 40mb).

The Live stream is broadcasting now.

The full presentation is here.

All PDF reports are available here.

Early notes indicate that churn is down to 0.6% and they edged 2nd position carrier KDDI in new customer additions during this quarter. Also note that 1Q ARPU is slotted at 6,900 JPY. Also, they have just confirmed that Google will be part of their new search engine service offering!

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