We noted in January that NTT DoCoMo was finally realizing some gains from having deployed WCDMA first. After two years of having to repeatedly lower subscriber forecasts the company now has added 500K users to its FOMA service for each of the past two months and now has finally beaten one of its own predictions. DoCoMo said that better handsets and better coverage have contributed to the good performance, but I suspect revised pricing also is a factor. We’ll find out when DoCoMo releases their financials in a couple of weeks.
An interesting sidebar to this news is the BBC’s coverage of it. Not only is the headline completely misleading (”Japanese rush to buy 3G mobiles”) but they get the key fact wrong: DoCoMo has signed up 1M FOMA users in the past two months, not the one month the Beeb claims.
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