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"Japan's Telecommunications Industry" (Report, pdf-file)

Summary

This report gives a comprehensive overview of Japan's US$ 200 billion telecommunications industry and markets. This report is purchased by investors, investment banks, students, telecom equipment makers, electronic chip makers, telecom operators, venture companies, software companies and many other industry professionals all over the world.
Most experts agree that Japan is the global leader in telecommunications, about 2-5 years ahead of Europe and the US in most areas of telecommunications.
Therefore, understanding the state-of-the-art in telecommunications requires understanding the telecommunication landscape in Japan. The present report delivers such an overview and is required reading for any telecommunication professional, who wishes to understand todays state-of-the-art.
This report gives a thorough overview of Japan's telecommunications markets, with a wealth of statistical and financial data in visualized graphical form with analysis and trends.

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Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary, Agenda (List of Contents)
  • Japans telecom industry - Introduction
    Key trends for 2007
    How did Japan's telecom industry become one of the world's most competitive? (historic overview)
    Overview of Japan's telecom industry, and the major industrial groups and their affiliation (Graphics: industry structure and recent transactions, status of August 4, 2006)
    Size (sales in 2003/2004) of top five Japanese telecom groups (Graphics: sales of the major Japanese telecom groups, data for fiscal 2003/2004)
  • The main players
    Overview of main players
    Comparing the NTT Group, KDDI and SoftBank (Graphics for NTT, NTT-DoCoMo, NTT-Data, KDDI incl. PoweredCom, Softbank, sales for fiscal 2006)
    Market Capitalization (2004 - Dec 28, 2006) for Vodafone, DoCoMo, NOKIA, NTT, Qualcomm, Motorola, KDDI and SoftBank
  • Financials of the top players
    Revenue of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - 2007)
    Net after tax income of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - 2007)
    Capital investments of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - 2007)
    ARPU (average revenue per user) of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - 2006)
  • How many cell phone base stations are there in Japan?
    Number of base stations for all major Japanese mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI/AU, TuKa, SoftBank, eMobile, UQ, and local WiMax operators (data for 2005 - 2009, stacked, by spectrum segment, 2G, 3G, national WiMax, local WiMax)
    Number of base stations for all major Japanese mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI/AU, TuKa, SoftBank, eMobile, UQ, and local WiMax operators (data for 2005 - 2009, separate curves for different technologies and separate for each spectrum band)
    Total number of cellular base stations for all major Japanese mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI/AU, TuKa, SoftBank, eMobile, UQ, and local WiMax operators (data for 2005 - 2009)
    How big is Japan's market for base stations? How many basestations are sold per month? Incremental number of base stations for all major Japanese mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI/AU, TuKa, SoftBank, eMobile, UQ, and local WiMax operators (data for 2005 - 2009)
    How many repeaters and boosters are installed in Japan? (graphics showing number of boosters and repeaters for Japan's cellular mobile operators DoCoMo, KDDI / AU, SoftBank Mobile and eMobile for the period 2006-2009)
    Number of low power repeaters (DoCoMo, KDDI / AU, SoftBank mobile, time period: 2008-2009)
    How many PHS basestations are installed in Japan (for operator Willcom: number of PHS stations installed for the period 1996 - 2009)
  • NTT
  • KDDI
    KDDI's main business areas
    KDDI's main business areas: fixed and mobile (graphics, sales data for fiscal 2007 (estimation))
    KDDI's history, major mergers and acquisitions between foundation in 1953 and 2006
    History of KDDI's service
    KDDI's revenue (graphics: KDDI total revenue, mobile communications revenue, data for 2000-2007
    KDDI's investment capital expenditure (graphics: for different business areas, data for 2004-2007
  • UQ communication - WiMax operator
    Strategy
    Capital structure, investors
  • KDDI
    KDDI's main business areas
    KDDI's main business areas: fixed and mobile (graphics, sales data for fiscal 2007 (estimation))
    KDDI's history, major mergers and acquisitions between foundation in 1953 and 2006
    History of KDDI's service
    KDDI's revenue (graphics: KDDI total revenue, mobile communications revenue, data for 2000-2007
    KDDI's investment capital expenditure (graphics: for different business areas, data for 2004-2007
  • SoftBank Group
    Masayoshi Son
    SoftBank overview
    Main business areas
    Group structure
    Demonstrating SoftBank's corporate size: comparing Revenue, Net Profits, and stock capitalization between APPLE Computer and SoftBank (data for 2004-2005)
    Japan Telecom
    Media, TV business
  • SoftBank Mobile Overview
    Japan Telecom and J-Phone
    J-Phone's success story
    Vodafone's acquisition and sale of Japan Telecom including J-Phone
    From J-Phone to Vodafone
    Vodafone's turnround plans
  • The Acquisition of Vodafone KK by the SoftBank Group
    SoftBak acquires Vodafone KK - the Acquisition
    SoftBank's targets
    Risks and opportunities of SoftBank-Mobile's turn-round
    SoftBank's post-merger actions
    3G base stations and coverage
    Rebranding campaigns
    Rebranding the shops
    Yahoo-Keitai replaces Vodafone-Live
  • eAccess and eMobile
    AOL
  • IPmobile
  • Fixed line markets
    Fixed line markets, overview, and trends
    Fixed line market shares of the four top carriers (data for March 2004)
  • Basic Phone Service (POTS, VOIP)
    Market shares of the local and medium distance fixed line phone markets for top 5 carriers (data for Sept 2004)
    Competition for basic subscription voice telephony (data: major competing groups and pricing competition overview)
    Unbundling of fixed line services
    KDDI: IP telephone over dry copper, KDDI Metal Plus
    Competition for basic voice telephony (main competitors)
  • Broad Band
    Broadbank internet access costs (international comparison)
    Development of Japans broad band markets (history, present market situation, trends)
    Market shares for ADSL subscriptions for the top five carriers (data for Sept 2004)
    Market shares for Broad-band internet subscriptions for the top six ISPs (data for March 2004)
    Internet access in Japan, subscriber numbers for FTTH, cable TV, DSL, Dial-up (ISDN), and mobile internet (logarithmic graphics, data for 2001-2004, projection for 2005)
    Internet access in Japan, subscriber numbers for FTTH, cable TV, DSL, Dial-up (ISDN), and mobile internet (cumulative graphics: data for 2001-2004, projection for 2005)
    Fixed line internet access in Japan, subscriber numbers for FTTH, CATV, DSL, Dial-up (ISDN) (cumulative graphics: data for 2001-2004)
    Broad band internet access in Japan, subscriber numbers for FTTH, CATV, DSL (cumulative graphics: data for 2001-2004, projection to 2005)
  • NTTs national optical IP Network
    Outline, investment size, strategy
    Projected numbers for FTTH lines provided by NTT (data for 2002-2010 (plan by NTT))
    FTTH subscription numbers (comparing Japan and European Union - EU, data for 2000-2005 and projections to 2010)
  • KDDIs broad band business and strategy
    KDDIs broad band services
    Triple play, Metal-Plus, Hikari-One
  • Softbank/YAHOO-BBs fixed line business and strategy
    Softbank/YAHOO-BBs strategy
    Softbank/YAHOO-BBs entering the FTTH market
  • Wireless communication markets
    Overview
    Most important recent trends
  • Wireless communications, Mobile phones, 3G, PHS...
    Wireless market reality in Tokyo
    Japans mobile phone companies (2006/2007)
    Comparing 3G and 2G subscriber numbers for DoCoMo, Vodafone, KDDI, TuKa for different radio transmission technologies (PHS, PDC, 3G, CDMA2000-1x, CDMAone etc.) (data for 2002-2006)
    Competition on Japans mobile phone market, total subscriber contract statistics for the major carriers, also showing the historic consolidation of the mobile communications industry (companies: Digital Phone Group, Digital TuKa, J-Phone, Vodafone, DDI-Pocket, DoCoMo-PHS, ASTEL, Cellular Group, IDO, KDDI/AU, DoCoMo) (subscriber numbers for the period 1998 to 2006, including historic data of merged operators)
    Market shares (in terms of subscriber contracts) of the four major operators: DoCoMo, KDDI/AU, J-Phone/Vodafone, TuKa (Graphics: data for 1998-2006)
    Mobile internet subscriber numbers (i-Mode, EZweb, Yahoo-Keitai / J-Sky / Vodafone-Live, data for 1999 - 2006)
    Monthly subscriber number growth (net growth, net loss) for DoCoMo, KDDI/AU, SoftBank. Willcom (graph showing data 2004-2006)
    Monthly subscriber number growth (net growth, net loss) for DoCoMo, KDDI/AU, SoftBank, Willcom (graph showing data June 2006 - November 2006)
  • Radio spectrum allocation for mobile communications in Japan
    Policy and trends
    Details of the spectrum allocation for the 800MHz, 1.5GHz and the 2GHz bands (data of Summer 2004, for the major carriers: DoCoMo, KDDI/AU, Vodafone, TuKa, and PHS and for the different radio transmission technologies: PDC, PHS, wCDMA, and CDMA2000 and TDD for testing, also shown are the bands allocated to MCA transmissions and MT2000 satellite transmissions)
  • 3G and 3.5G in Japan
    Overview
    Waves of disruptive innovation
    Overview of mobile 3G internet services including potential new market entrants from 2005 and beyond
    3G introduction in Japan (subscriber numbers for KDDI, DoCoMo-FOMA and Vodafone VGS, projection for new market entries for second wave, data: subscriber contract statistics for 2001-2006)
    3G subscriber data total and for FOMA, SoftBank 3G, KDDI-AU CDMA (data for 2002 - 2006)
    DoCoMos "FOMA chasm" (mobile subscriber statistics for 2001-2004 with focus and discussion of the temporary plateau in DoCoMos FOMA roll-out)
    The first wave of Japans 3G roll-out (2001-2005) (Graphics: conversion rate from 2G to 3G and 2.5G for the 3G carriers in Japan, data for 2001-2004, plus indication of potential new entrants from 2005 and beyond)
    Market shares of Japans 3G market (Graphics: market shares in terms of 3G subscription numbers, data for 2002-2004, logarithmic scale)
    Market shares of Japans 3G market (Graphics: market shares in terms of 3G subscription numbers, data for 2002-2004, linear scale)
    The first wave of Japans 3G roll-out (2001-2005) (table showing the 3G and planned or deployed 3.5G systems and upgrade path, and data transmission speeds for different carriers)
    3G imaging and video
    3G vs WiFi (hotspots)
    Picture mail and GPS
  • Mobile Phone Handset Markets
    Japans mobile handset markets: key points
    Japans handset market versus GSM markets - key differences
    i-mode handsets, typical characteristics
    Evolution of i-Mode phone displays 2000-2004
    Example: DoCoMo 3G FOMA 900i series (2004)
    Japans market for mobile phone (Graphics: handset sales per month, sales data for 2001-2004)
    Market shares of camera phone makers (data for 2001 and 2002)
    DoCoMo FOMA P2102V
    Demonstration of GPS integration (KDDI/AU)
    Biometric sensor integration, fingerprint sensor (DoCoMo F505i by Fujitsu)
  • The "AU design project" Design as Value
    Significance of the "AU design project"
    Summary of "AU design project" 2001-2006 (table showing major design models: talby, info.bar, ishicoro, GRAPPA 002, rotary, wearable, apollo and apollo02, etc )
    Details: Infobar, Infobar 2, cypres, kaos, vols, talby, PENCK
  • Sweets for the teenage and subteen market
    As an example of targeting segments
  • Phones for the silver market
    DoCoMo's RakuRaku series
    TuKa-S TK50-S
  • DoCoMo's 3G Phones
    DoCoMo's 900i series, 700i series, Concept Phone series
  • Mobile phone sales in Japan
    Overview
    Promoting the 900i series
    Carriers competing face-to-face (images from a typical mobile phone store, demonstrating the competition of carriers via handset presentation)
    Focus on the KDDI/AU (3G and 3.5G handsets) vs Vodafone handset competition (2G handsets)
    Demonstration of a typical suburban KDDI/AU store, showing 3G and 3.5G handsets on display
    Vodafone global standard 3G phones
    Why did the October 2004 re-launch of 3G fail?
    From Vodafone to SoftBank
    Nokia mobile phone sales in Japan
  • Mobile internet and i-mode
    Why was i-mode born in Japan, not in Europe or USA
    The i-mode eco-system (graphics showing the interplay of the integrated i-Mode value chain orchestrated by DoCoMo)
    i-mode in a nutshell
    Market shares in Japan's mobile internet (data for i-Mode, EZweb, YAHOO-Keitai for 2001-2006)
    Cumulative total subscriber numbers in Japan's mobile internet (data for i-Mode, EZweb, YAHOO-Keitai for 2001-2006)
    Total subscriber numbers in Japan's mobile internet (data for i-Mode, EZweb, YAHOO-Keitai for 2001-2006)
    Month-to-month growth in Japan's mobile internet (data for i-Mode, EZweb, YAHOO-Keitai for 2004-2006)
  • EZweb - the official menu
    Evolution of the official menu (top) 2005 and 2006 (including GOOGLE mobile search)
    English menu, global site
    AU m-commerce portal portfolio
    AU auctions
  • SoftBank and YAHOO-Keitai
    Leveraging YAHOO for the SoftBank brand
    YAHOO-Keitai replaces Vodafone Live
    + YAHOO-Keitai = SoftBank campaign
  • m-Commerce, mobile payments and m-Transactions
    M-commerce and M-transactions (data and extrapolation for 2000-2010)
    m-Commerce, m-Content and m-Advertising in Japan to reach US$ 10 billion by 2005 (data for 2001-2005)
    i-Mode supports a range of m-Commerce and m-Transactions (overview of transaction classes)
    i-mode premium sites - a billion dollar market, figure of combined revenue of i-mode premium pay sites (data for 1999-2003)
    Around 50% of i-mode users subscribe to at least one pay site, figure with subscription data (data for 1999-2003)
  • Music, Mobile Music
    Characteristics and trends
    comulative total of downloaded music (comparing chaku uta, chaku uta full and iTunes)
    Mobile music compared to total music market
    Mobile music market size in Japan
    Poke Melo Joysound
    Full songs - chaku uta full
  • AU Listen Mobile service LISMO
    Characteristics and trends
    AU mUsic port
    LISMO music store
    Mobile music market size in Japan
  • Location based services and GPS
    Characteristics and trends
    EZnaviwalk
    3D navi
    i-Area
  • Mobile payments and keitai credit
    Overview and trends
    Overview of e-money, and electronic transaction and credit systems
    DoCoMo's investments in banks and credit card companies
    Japan's credit card and cash payment markets (data for 1990 - 2010 projection
    Japan's credit card market
    Details, grapics, and implications of DoCoMo's investments
  • iD - DoCoMo's credit brand
    DoCoMo's iD mobile credit platform
    DCMX - DoCoMo as a credit card operator
    QuicPay contactless offline payments
  • FeliCa Wallet phones
    Wallet phone introduction, introductory models (data July 2004)
    Initial transaction partners for i-Mode/FeliCa (data July 2004)
    What are wallet phones? Overview
    Multi-application smartcards integrated into mobile phones (graphics showing the system overview)
    Cash register POS with Edy reader / writer
    Edy in Felica wallet phones
  • Mobile-TV
    Phones for mobile-TV (examples by SHARP and SONY-Ericsson
    Overview, 1-seg broadcast vs streaming over IP
    Three alternative screens
    Mobile digital TV and internet
  • Prepaid Mobile phones
    Prepaid mobile phones in Japan (statistics for Sept 2004, graphics for DoCoMo, AU, Vodafone/SoftBank, and TuKa)
  • PHS
    Japans competing three PHS services and networks (overview discussion)
    Image: wireless reality in Tokyo, showing PHS data card in actual daily use
    Overview, products and services
    Recent transactions and trends
    Sample products: DDI-Pocked Air-H data PC cards and USB connectors
    DDI-Pocket data connection products samples
    Data transmission units
    Base station: example - SANYO station for 256kbps data
    PHS data charges in comparison with 3G data charges (Graphics: PHS fees in comparison with 3G fees as a function of consumption for 0-700Mbyte/month)
    PHS: competitive features and trends
    Wristomo a mobile phone on your wrist, with data access (photographs)
    Carlyle / Willcom
    EDGE
  • Fixed-mobile integration and mobile wireless LAN integration and wireless VOIP
    3G - wireless LAN and 3G - fixed line integration
    DoCoMo "Passage Duple", combining FOMA 3G and wireless LAN, N900iL handset including photograph
    Wireless VOIP, discussion
  • Summary

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