DoCoMo i-channel subscribers more that 15 million

Posted by Bill Belew on January 26th, 2008 in Japanese Products | Comments Off

DoCoMo i-channel subscribers more that 15 million

Subscribers to the NTT DoCoMo i-channel news and information service topped 15 million on Jan 3, 2008.

The service launched in September 2005.

DoCoMo's i-channel automatically sends scrolling-text headlines from the i-channel site to a phone's standby screen.

The i-channel site provides five information channels: weather, news, sports & entertainment, horoscopes and recommended i-mode sites.

Pushing the i-channel button on a compatible phone displays detailed information about each headline.

Information is updated almost every two hours from morning to nighttime.

The monthly cost of the service is 150 yen. There is no extra charge for headlines sent to the subscriber phone's standby screen, but packet communication charges apply when detailed content is viewed.

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