The venture was set up at a time when there were high hopes for the potential of Internet access from cell phones. DoCoMo has also become disillusioned with its US partner, and chief executive Takashi Yamakawa told Reuters earlier this year that AOL was only focused on the US market. They didn’t care about Japan operations because the US business was growing so rapidly, he said.
This article is based on material originally produced by ComputerWire.
