Tokyo, Apr 07: Japan's top cellphone operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc, said on Monday its camera-phone users now number over nine million, threatening the No.1 spot in the domestic photo-phone market held by J-Phone Co Ltd.
As of March 31, photo-phone users at J-Phone, the Japanese unit of Britain's Vodafone Group Plc, totalled 9.015 million, while DoCoMo said its camera-phone subscribers exceeded the nine million mark on April 5, without citing an exact figure.

It took J-Phone, a camera-phone pioneer and Japan's third-largest mobile phone operator, over two years to attract nine million camera-phone users, while DoCoMo hit the same mark in 10 months since launching its first photo phone last June.

Mobile phone operators are counting on non-voice services, including the transmission of photos, to drive profits in the face of dwindling voice revenue. Bureau Report