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Yen37 billion investment for DoCoMo FOMA handsets

December 23, 2003

Japan's largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo plans to invest 37 billion yen ($343 million) over the next two years for the development of its 3G FOMA handsets.

The investment will be provided from next April and shared among six firms including Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola Japan, NEC, Sharp and Panasonic Mobile Communications.

"Advanced handset capabilities are crucial to further enhancing the value of these services to the user," DoCoMo said in a statement.

"By investing in development, DoCoMo aims to motivate manufacturers to produce increasingly innovative handsets."

The operator would share ownership rights with the handset makers of any new technologies.

The company had agreed with handset manufacturers earlier this year to take on around half the research and development costs of FOMA phones. They also encouraged handset makers to base their handsets on the Symbian or Linux operating systems, snubbing Microsoft's rival operating systems.

DoCoMo said Linux offers openness and flexibility, something that is not guaranteed Microsoft's operating systems.

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