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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″

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