Tag: keitai
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"Mobile Internet Device will replace Cell Phone! Do you agree?" [from a LinkedIn discussion]
[My answer to a recent LinkedIn discussion group question: “Mobile Internet Device will replace Cell Phone!”] This is too narrow a view. I would say: today’s state of the art cell phones already include the role of internet device + many other functions, mobile internet devices cannot do. 1. For several years practically all Japanese…
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Japan’s mobile phone disaster
Japan’s mobile phone sector is admired the world over, and Japanese mobile phones are years ahead the rest of the world regarding functionality. However, Japan’s mobile phone industry may be heading for a disaster, similar to the European 3G spectrum license fee disaster which almost bankrupted Europe’s mobile phone operators – unless changes are made…
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SoftBank and KDDI win market share, Docomo loses
SoftBank from 4th to 1st position within less than 12 months… SoftBank‘s turn-round of x-Vodafone-Japan, went faster than many expected. Within less than 12 months SoftBank went from last place to first place in customer sign-ups, overtaking even KDDI‘s super-popular AU. Willcom recently suffers from SoftBank‘s revival, as well as from eMobile‘s flat rate data…
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“Help – my mobile phone does not work!” – Why Japan’s mobile phone sector is so different from Europe’s
Presentation at the Lunch meeting of the Finnish Chamber of Commerce in Japan (FCCJ) on March 16, 2007 at the Westin Hotel, Tokyo. Summary of the event and photographs here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160815232148/http://www.fcc.or.jp/lunch160307.html The presentation is not available any longer on the FCCJ website however you can download our report about Japan’s telecom sector. An abbreviated version…
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Why are keitai so hot in Japan?
Innovations in Japan’s mobile phone sector Why is Japan’s telecommunications sector leading? Seminar announcement The European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS Academy in Tokyo) of the Stockholm School of Economics will hold a seminar in Tokyo-Marunochi on Thursday, February 16, 2006: Topic: “Why are Mobile Phones (Keitai) so hot in Japan? – and How European…