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| 2014 || January || || {{w|Venture capital}} || {{w|NTT Docomo}} establishes a JPY 10 billion venture fund, NTT Investment Partners Fund II, L.P. (NTT-IP Fund II).<ref name="Historyh"/>
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| 2014 || May 14 || Cellular network || Service || {{w|NTT Docomo}} announces that its extra-high speed XiTM network would offer Japan's first {{w|LTE}} service for stable, high-quality voice and video calls using {{w|Voice-over-LTE}} (VoLTE) technology.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO to Launch Japan's First VoLTE Service |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2014/0514_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=25 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2014 || May 14 || || Product || {{w|NTT Docomo}} introduces its 2014 summer lineup of mobile devices, comprising six smartphones, two tablets, two feature phones, one Raku-Raku ("easy-easy") phone and one {{w|USB}} data terminal.<ref>{{cite web |title=NTT DOCOMO Unveils 12 New Mobile Devices in Summer Lineup |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2014/0514_01.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=25 January 2020}}</ref>
| 2014 || || || Service || Under Civil Protection Law of Japan, Docomo begins offering a service called the "Area Mail Disaster and Evacuation Information Service" which broadcasts {{w|J-Alert}} messages (including Earthquake Early Warning) produced by the Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency to its subscribers with compatible handsets (e.g. Sony XPERIA, iPhone 5s, Samsung Galaxy).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/news_release/2014/03/28_00.html|title=緊急速報「エリアメール」、及び「緊急速報メール」を利用した国民保護に関する情報の配信を開始|accessdate=12 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 2014 || October || Cellular network || {{w|Research and development) || {{w|NTT Docomo}} annpounces having successfully trialed {{w|network functions virtualization}} NFV Using Multi-vendors' Virtualization Systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO Successfully Trials NFV Using Multi-vendors' Virtualization Systems |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2014/1014_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=28 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || || || Administration || {{w|NTT Docomo}} establishes its IT Security Division.<ref name="docomo-sys.co.jp"/>
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| 2015 || March 27 || Cellular network || Service || {{w|NTT Docomo}} launches Premium {{w|4G}}, a {{w|LTE Advanced}} service.<ref>{{cite web |title=DoCoMo starts on March 27 on "PREMIUM 4G" of the fastest 225 Mbps in Japan, in which the file DL speed exceeds 1.5 times the LTE |url=https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20150225-lte-advanced-docomo-premium-4g/ |website=gigazine.net |accessdate=28 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || May 13 || || Service || {{w|NTT Docomo}} announces integration of DOCOMO's dmarket services with social networking functions offered by {{w|Facebook}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO to Integrate Mobile Services with Facebook |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2015/0513_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=19 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2015 || September 30 || Device || Product Smartphone, tablet, wouter launch || {{w|NTT Docomo}} its 2015 winter/2016 spring lineup of mobile devices, which includes 10 smartphones, one each tablet, feature phone and mobile {{w|Wi-Fi}} router.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO Launches 13 New Mobile Devices for Winter/Spring Lineup |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2015/0930_01.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=25 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2015 || October 1 || || Merger || Docomo Capital announces its merger with Docomo Innovations.<ref>{{cite web |title=GATEWAY TO JAPAN |url=https://www.docomoinnovations.com/ |website=docomoinnovations.com |accessdate=18 November 2019}}</ref>
| 2016 || || || Acquisition || {{w|NTT Docomo}} acquires "Kurumin", a next generation support certification logo.<ref name="docomo-sys.co.jp"/>
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| 2016 || May 24 || Cellular network || {{w|Research and development}} || In a trial jointly conducted with {{w|Nokia}}, {{w|NTT Docomo}} announces having achieved the world's first wireless real-time transmission of 8K video deploying radio access technology for 5G mobile communications systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO and Nokia Achieves World's First Real Time 8K Video Transmission Using 5G Radio Access Technology |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2016/0524_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=26 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2016 || June 13 || Cellular network || {{w|Research and development}} || {{w|NTT Docomo}} and {{w|Ericsson}} announce successful completion of a joint Proof of Concept (PoC) of dynamic network slicing technology for {{w|5G}} core networks. {{w|NTT Docomo}} is responsible the network slice creation and selection functions, and Ericsson developed technologies to perform network slice lifecycle and service management.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO and Ericsson Perform Successful Proof of Concept of Dynamic 5G Network Slicing |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2016/0613_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=25 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || January || || International expansion || {{w|NTT Docomo}} launches its NTT DOCOMO Ventures' {{w|Silicon Valley}} branch in the United States.<ref name="Historyh"/>
| 2017 || || || Acquisition || {{w|NTT Docomo}} acquires the highest position of "Eruboshi", based on Act to advance women's success in their working life.<ref name="docomo-sys.co.jp"/>
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| 2017 || February || Device || Product {{w|SIM card}} launch || {{w|NTT Docomo}} announes a new {{w|eSIM}} platform that would enable enables companion consumer devices embedded with subscriber identity modules (eSIM), including tablets and wearables, to connect to mobile networks through remote provisioning of the profile.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO Develops eSIM Platform for Consumer Devices |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2017/0223_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=12 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || February 27 || Cellular network || Partnership || {{w|Qualcomm Technologies}}, {{w|Ericsson}}, and {{w|NTT Docomo}} announce collaboration on {{w|5G}} New Radio (NR) trials to accelerate wide-scale 5G deployments in Japan.<ref>{{cite web |title=Qualcomm, Ericsson, and NTT DOCOMO announce collaboration on 5G NR trials to accelerate wide-scale 5G deployments in Japan |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2017/0227_02.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=19 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || April 17 || Device || {{w|Research and development}} || {{w|NTT Docomo}} announces development of the world's first spherical drone display, a vehicle able to display LED images on an omnidirectional spherical screen while in flight.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO Develops World's First Spherical Drone Display |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2017/0425_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=26 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || April 23 || Device || Product Mobile phone launch || {{w|NTT Docomo}} introduces five new {{w|3G}} {{w|FOMA}} 904i models.<ref>{{cite web |title=NTT DoCoMo Unveils New FOMA 904i Series |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2007/001335.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=24 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || June 27 || Device || {{w|Research and development}} || [[w:China Mobile|China Mobile Communications Corporation]] and {{w|NTT Docomo}} announce joint development of the world's first multi-vendor embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) system within their commercial environments based on the GSMA's Remote Provisioning Architecture for Embedded UICC3.1 (GSMAv3.1) standard.<ref>{{cite web |title=China Mobile Communications and NTT DOCOMO Develop World's First Multi-Vendor eSIM System for IoT |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2017/0627_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=19 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || October || || {{w|Venture capital}} || {{w|NTT Docomo}} establishes a JPY 15 billion new venture fund, Docomo Innovation Fund II, L.P.<ref name="Historyh"/>
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| 2017 || November 28 || Device || Product {{w|SIM card}} launch || In collaboration with international digital security company {{w|Gemalto}}, {{w|NTT Docomo}} announces development of the world's first multi-profile SIM "for use through multi-carrier collaborations that can allow users to switch between profiles, which include data such as contract information and telephone numbers, on their smartphone or tablet in each country."<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO Develops Multi-Profile SIM for Smartphones and Tablets |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2017/1128_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=12 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || || || Administration || {{w|NTT Docomo}} Establishes {{w|IoT}} Division, Sales Channel Promotion Division Certified as a Health and Productivity Management Organization (White 500).<ref name="docomo-sys.co.jp"/>
| 2018 || || || Recognition || {{w|NTT Docomo}} receives the Certification of Silver (Gin-no-Nintei).<ref name="docomo-sys.co.jp"/>
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| 2018 || March 16 || {{w|Artificial intelligence}} || {{w|Research and development}} || {{w|NTT Docomo}} announces the launch of an {{w|AI}} engine that "quickly, simply and accurately analyzes shelf allocation in stores and warehouses using photos taken with smartphones and other common devices".<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO Launches AI Engine for Fast, Accurate Shelf Analysis |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2018/0316_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=19 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || May 9 || Cellular network || {{w|Research and development}} || {{w|NTT Docomo}} announces that together with {{w|NEC Corporation}} and {{w|Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation}} (NTT) it has achieved what is considered to be the first successful 28 GHz wireless data transmission between a {{w|5G}} base station and a 5G mobile station in 5G field trials using a car moving at 305 km/h.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO Achieves World's First 5G Wireless Data Transmission in Ultra-high-mobility Environment Exceeding 300 km/h |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2018/0509_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=19 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || May 30 || {{w|Mobile web}} || Product launch || {{w|NTT Docomo}} launches My Daiz, a digital assistant that uses {{w|artificial intelligence}} to analyze the movements of smartphone and tablet users to recommend different services, including JapanTaxi's app, to users.<ref>{{cite web |title=NTT Docomo steps on gas in car-related services |url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/NTT-Docomo-steps-on-gas-in-car-related-services |website=asia.nikkei.com |accessdate=1 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=NTT Docomo to launch AI system providing apt info based on user movements |url=https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180517/p2a/00m/0na/023000c |website=mainichi.jp |accessdate=1 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || June 11 || || {{w|Research and development}} || {{w|NTT Docomo}} announces successful development of population flow statistics for analyzing population mobility based on operational data from the company's nationwide mobile network in Japan.<ref>{{cite web |title=DOCOMO Develops Population Flow Statistics as Transportation Big Data |url=https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2018/0618_00.html |website=nttdocomo.co.jp |accessdate=26 January 2020}}</ref>
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