iMode is a brand and a service of wireless Internet connection at the touch of a button on a cell phone. NTT DoCoMo[1]started this service in February 1999 in Japan and obtained over six million subscribers 14 month later.
Wireless Internet service from NTT DoCoMo, based on Compact HTML.
Japanese network NTT DoCoMo has had a great deal of success with iMode, with the main advantage over WAP being that it is packet-switched network. Thus, it actually runs at the same speed of connection as WAP, but because the network is packet switched, it works considerably faster- and in colour.
Japan's NTT DoCoMo developed iMode, which delivers Web connections on a cell phone. The service is very popular in Japan, but has only limited availability in the U.S.