Nintendo has licensed its properties to NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone for use as mobile phone content, according to the Nikkei Japan financial website and Gamasutra.com. Both sound and graphics from the Super Mario series will be released to users for a subscription fee of $2 (210) a month. The service is named Nintendo Mobile and will begin on Japanese service provider NTT DoCoMo on October 17 and on Vodafone on October 20.