96th Annual Awards Banquet and Technical Symposium

96th RCA Annual Awards Banquet

Mr. Nobuharu Ono , Speaker

The Radio Club of America (“RCA”) is pleased to announce that the highly esteemed Nobuharu Ono will be this year’s speaker for the Club’s Annual Awards Banquet, held at the New York Athletic Club Friday, November 18, 2005 . Currently the president and CEO of NTT DoCoMo USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary established in November 1999 of Japan ’s NTT DoCoMo Inc., Ono will share his unique industry perspective, keen insights and long-standing expertise.

Ono graduated from Nagoya University with a bachelor degree in Engineering in 1968, and then began his career at NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation), the largest telecommunication carrier in Japan . He held a variety of executive positions related to the field of transmission during his early years at NTT, and eventually was promoted to Vice President, Executive Manager of the Multimedia Business Department of NTT in 1995.

In July 2000, Ono moved to NTT DoCoMo, Inc., the mobile arm of NTT which was spun off from its parent company in 1992. At that time, he headed the Mobile Multimedia Division, which promotes multimedia communication and services through DoCoMo’s wireless network. Ono was a Board member at NTT DoCoMo ( Japan ), and acted as Deputy Head of its Global Business Division through June 2002.

On the cutting edge of technology, Ono served on the Board of Directors of AT&T Wireless, a strategic U.S. partner for NTT DoCoMo, from July 2001 through the completion of the Cingular-AT&T Wireless merger in October 2004.