NTT DoCoMo to Establish Communications Research Center in Beijing

Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 26, 2003 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DoCoMo, Inc. today
announced that it will establish DoCoMo Communications Laboratories
Beijing Co., Ltd. to research and promote the advancement of mobile
communication technologies for fourth-generation (4G) and beyond.
Capitalized at 5.3 million US dollar (approx. 630 million yen), the new
wholly owned subsidiary of NTT DoCoMo will be set up within this year.

China has aggressively committed to 4G research and development, and is
expected to evolve the requisite new standards. DoCoMo expects the
envisioned laboratory to promote advanced mobile communications
technology in both countries in line with the joint statement issued at
the People's Republic of China-Japan-Republic of Korea Information and
Telecommunication Ministerial Meeting held last September in Marrakech.



About NTT DoCoMo

NTT DoCoMo is the world's leading mobile communications company
with more than 44 million customers. The company provides a wide variety
of leading-edge mobile multimedia services. These include i-mode(R), the
world's most popular mobile internet service, which provides e-mail
and Internet access to over 35 million subscribers, and FOMA(R),
launched in 2001 as the world's first 3G mobile service based on
W-CDMA. In addition to wholly owned subsidiaries in Europe and North and
South America, the company is expanding its global reach through
strategic alliances with mobile and multimedia service providers in the
Asia-Pacific, Europe and North and South America. NTT DoCoMo is listed
on the Tokyo , London (NDCM), and New York (DCM) stock
exchanges.For further information, please visit the NTT DoCoMo home page
at: www.nttdocomo.com/ <http://www.nttdocomo.com/>