NTT DoCoMo: 20 million of 3G users now

NTT DoCoMo announced that its 3G subscriber base had reached 20 million users by the end of 2005. Now 3G users constitute about 40 percent of company's total subscribers.

It took five years and three month to get this milestone for NTT DoCoMo, which markets its 3G service as FOMA (Freedom for Mobile Access). The company plans to accelerate the process of switching users from 2G to 3G phones, by having a goal to convert 50% of its users to 3G base by Q1 2006.