Japan’s DoCoMo willing to be ‘flexible’ in iPhone negotiations
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jul 3, 2008 at 11:30am
NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile phone operator, will be flexible in negotiations with Apple to offer the iPhone, according to President Ryuji Yamada said.
“It’s common sense that Apple wants to sell as many iPhones worldwide as possible and to customize it would be difficult,’’ Yamada, who took over as president last month, said in an interview with [url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aTteReeHFdFI&refer=japan]Bloomberg Television in Tokyo. “Our stance on the iPhone remains flexible.”
Yamada faces a shrinking market share for DoCoMo, whose lineup of mobile phones and services offers little distinction from that of Softbank Corp. and KDDI Corp., according to Bloomberg. DoCoMo, which includes its trademark i-mode Web-browsing software in all handsets, lost out to Softbank for the right to sell the iPhone from July 11.
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