TOKYO, JAPAN, March 13, 2001 --- NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today the development of a mobile communications platform that enables numerous people to participate in a mobile video conference, making it the world's first cellular phone platform for video teleconferencing.

The platform will work with P2101V and D2101V FOMA video phones equipped for the 3G-324M protocol, the IMT-2000 standard for audio-video mobile communications. It also works with certain fixed-line video phones.

If the video conference involves four people or less, the phone's video screen splits into four windows to show each person simultaneously. The user can optionally switch to a full-screen display of each person as they speak.

A DoCoMo-led consortium will conduct a field trial of the new platform beginning this May.


About NTT DoCoMo
NTT DoCoMo is the world's leading mobile communications company with more than 40 million customers. The company provides a wide variety of leading-edge mobile multimedia services. These include , the world's most popular mobile internet service, which provides e-mail and internet access to over 31 million subscribers, and , launched in 2001 as the world's first 3G mobile service. In addition to wholly owned subsidiaries in the United States, Europe and Brazil, the company is expanding its global reach through strategic joint ventures and other alliances with mobile and multimedia service providers in the Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. NTT DoCoMo is listed on the Tokyo (9437), London (NDCM), and New York (DCM) stock exchanges. For more information, visit www.nttdocomo.com

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