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April 27, 2012

DoCoMo Releases Latest Results

DoCoMo just released Q4 earnings with consolidated financial results for fiscal year ending March 31, 2012. http://bit.ly/IfzHfT

The full release with 39-pages in English PDF Here.. some highlight bullets below [Eds]

- total blended voice / data ARPU last fiscal at 4,870 JPY – approx. $60 USD – down 3.9%

- 22M handsets sold last fiscal year – up 15% – with 8.82M smartphones, a 3x increase YoY

- 36.2M flat-rate data plan subscribers as of March 31st 2012, increase 13.7% Year on Year

- 60M total subscriber base with 42.3M on i-mode and 9.5M now sp-mode (SmartPhone) services

- Wallet Phone stats = POS locations: 550K, iD subscribers: 16.8M and DCMX members: 12.9M

- “The second-generation mova service, which was launched in March 1993 and contributed significantly to the popularization of the mobile phone, was terminated on March 31st, 2012″

Related posts:

  1. JEITA Releases Japan Smartphone Stats
  2. Japan Smartphone Sales for 2011
  3. DoCoMo Raises Smartphone Sales Target
  4. DoCoMo Releases Q1 Result for 2009
  5. DoCoMo Reports 1H Earnings for FY2009

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