NTT DoCoMo, market leader in Japan in terms of subscribers have posted net profit for the nine months to the end of December 2008 of JPY437.7 billion (USD4.86 billion), up 16% from a year earlier, whilst operating income grows to 19% year-on-year to JPY746.8 billion, despite revenues falling 4% to JPY3.38 trillion. The handset sales and reudced chun is the attributing factor. The company is home to 54.16 million subscribers, up 220,000 from three months earlier, as of 31st Dec’08.