NTT DoCoMo announced that their i-channel services surpassed 15 millions subscribers on January 3, 2008. i-channel is a push service that automatically sends scrolling-text headlines to a phone’s standby screen. The headlines come from the i-channel site, which is arranged into five information channels: weather, news, sports & entertainment, horoscopes and recommended i-mode sites.

By simply pushing the i-channel button on a compatible phone, the user can view detailed information about each headline. Information is updated almost every two hours from morning to nighttime. The achievement came nine months after surpassing 10 million subscribers (March 2007) and two years and three months after the service’s launch (September 2005).

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 Print Posted by Amir Karimuddin on January 15th, 2008