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DoCoMo aims to launch Nokia 3G phone soon By Yukari Iwatani Kane TOKYO (Reuters) - Top Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437.T: Quote, Profile, Research) aims to launch a high-speed third-generation phone made by Finland's Nokia Oyj (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) as early as the October-March second half of this business year, an executive said on Thursday. It would be the first time Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, had provided a handset for DoCoMo. "The Nokia phone could be a dual-band phone capable of international roaming," DoCoMo Chief Financial Officer Yoshiaki Ugaki told Reuters in an interview. Foreign mobile phone makers have had a hard time entering the Japanese market until now, in part because the country's previous-generation mobile network was based on a unique standard. But DoCoMo's 3G network is based on the global W-CDMA standard, giving outside mobile phone makers a new opportunity to enter the market. Nokia's phone would follow rival Motorola Inc.'s (MOT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) phone for business users, which DoCoMo is expected to start selling this summer. DoCoMo is focusing on international roaming as one of the areas where it could increase average monthly revenue per user and offset price declines as a result of fierce competition industrywide. DoCoMo earlier this month forecast a 6.9 percent decline in average monthly revenue per user this year to 6,770 yen ($62.87), following a 9 percent decline in the last business year. The company has been locked in a fierce battle for customers with rivals KDDI Corp. (9433.T: Quote, Profile, Research) and Vodafone K.K. (9434.T: Quote, Profile, Research) , a unit of Britain's Vodafone Group Plc. (VOD.L: Quote, Profile, Research) as nearly 70 percent of the Japanese population now own mobile phones and it becomes more difficult to add first-time users. Ugaki said the company aimed to double its average international roaming revenue per user to about 40 yen ($0.372) per month in the current business year from about 20 yen at the end of March.
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