NTT DoCoMo says in talks with Asian operators for capital investment(Japan)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s leading mobile operator, has reportedly unveiled that it is in talks with some Asian mobile operator for a potential capital investment as it targets to seek growth overseas to counter the maturing mobile phone market in Japan.

“Our main target is Asia, and there are some other (promising) countries there. We are in contact (with carriers in those countries),” NTT DoCoMo Chief Executive Ryuji Yamada reportedly said.
DoCoMo is also looking forward for technological cooperation, rather than capital ties, with Chinese mobile operators such as China Mobile and China Unicom, Yamada said.
“Those are real giants and buying a stake of only a few percent could cost us several hundred billion yen (several billion dollars), and acquiring such stakes would not make much business sense for us,” Yamada said.

NTT DoCoMo on the other hand also wants to have a appealing mobile phone line up in order to compete with the rivals, Softbank and KDDI. DoCoMo plans to launch the first handset in Japan using Google Inc’s Android operating system.
Yamada added that he has also not given up on the possibility of offering Apple Inc’s iPhone to its subscribers.