Corporate Overview CEO’s Message
CEO's Message
With the recent growth in wireless communications throughout the world, mobile services are becoming increasingly more integrated into our daily lives. At the same time the spectrum of users is becoming broader than ever before. From young children to senior citizens, customer needs are becoming more diverse and personalized. To cope with this changing market conditions, NTT DOCOMO, Japan's premier mobile communications company, has expressed its vision to be a "relations service company" that helps strengthen ties between people and their lifestyles. NTT DOCOMO's commitment is emphasized through various mobile technology and services efforts to meet customer needs in every area of their activities.
R&D at NTT DOCOMO has been continuously contributing to the building of high-speed and high-quality networks, striving to create value-added services to lay a foundation for the new DOCOMO's vision. As an overseas R&D arm of NTT DOCOMO, DOCOMO Communication Laboratories USA, Inc. (DOCOMO USA Labs) has been actively supporting the R&D efforts especially in advancement of future mobile Internet technologies. Activities at DOCOMO USA Labs are based on its mid- to long-term strategic vision with a targeted objective of empowering mobile users to live and work more productively, feel safe and secure, and have ready access to personalized services that can improve the convenience of users.
Research topic areas include design of the future network architecture with advanced wireless access in pursuit of paradigm shift development in future generations of communications． New media transport technology on top of the network architecture will also be a key component of our studies. We also cover research work in mobile device and its collaboration with network platforms in accordance with the business interests of NTT DOCOMO. We will continue to promote the free and open exchange of ideas by actively collaborating with the technical communities of the Silicon Valley and the Americas to create cutting-edge breakthrough technologies.
I am wishing all our research efforts will contribute not only to the business of NTT DOCOMO, but also to strengthening the ties between people and making people happier and more productive in their daily lives.
