NTT DoCoMo is Japan's market-leading mobile phone provider. And where DoCoMo excels is in its uncanny ability to stay ahead of the technology curve.
Just look at the mess China has itself in as it struggles to introduce a 3G mobile network in time for this summer's Olympics.
While Beijing struggles to set up even a trial 3G network using its own TD-SCDMA standard, DoCoMo has had a commercial service called FOMA (using W-CDMA) in place since 2001.
