DoCoMo suckin' for air

[Taro Toporific]

Troubled Times for a Telco Titan [DoCoMo]
...news coverage on DoCoMo has lately focused on foreign investments gone awry and software glitches plaguing its high-speed 3G FOMA service.
...analysts say DoCoMo needs to redefine its strategy abroad. The company should be frugal, they say, but when it does invest it should do so in a big way. Seamus McAteer, an analyst with market research firm Zelos Group, said DoCoMo should consider owning more than 15 percent of a company to wield more influence in a particular market.
"You either own it or you don't," he said
- - - Wired.com / 20 Feb 2003