NTT DOCOMO Forecasts Further Falls

NTT DOCOMO said that it expects its revenues in the year to March 31, 2011 to fall 1.5% to 4.22 trillion yen (44.88 billion US dollars), following a fall of almost 4% in the previous year to 4.28 trillion yen. It anticipates that cellular service revenues will fall almost 3% in the year to March 31, 2011.

DOCOMO said that "packet" revenue from data services accounted for 46% of ARPU in the year ending March 31, 2010, compared with 42% the previous year. In the year to March 31, 2011, DOCOMO expects to spend 675 billion yen on capex (including 35 billion yen on LTE), compared with 687 billion yen the previous year. source: NTT DOCOMO presentation