K Y O, Aug. Details of the new services were to be announced at a joint news conference late this afternoon, but a DoCoMo spokesman said the companies plan to offer an initial batch of new services in Japan this winter. He declined to disclose details such as the price for an adapter to connect the two, game software or what kind of games would be introduced. The company last week estimated that the number of users may reach 17 million by the year-end, well above a target of 10 million set early this year. The explosive growth of i-mode, still barely a year old, has plagued DoCoMo with server failures triggered by capacity overload on its system.
Some analysts see the hardware becoming a major platform for Internet access in the home.
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