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Unlimited Wireless Internet!
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DOCOMO |
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> 58.79m |
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AU |
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> 33.53m |
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SOFTBANK |
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> 26.62m |
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EMOBILE |
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> 3.5m |
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PHS |
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> 4.1m |
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TOTAL |
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> 123.04m | |
OTHERS
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W-MODULE: |
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> 5.39m |
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PREPAY: |
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> 1.27m |
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BWA (UQ): |
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> 1.16m |
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TOTAL |
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> 7.82m | |
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Updated 9/7/2011 |
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FELICA/NFC News of 4/15/2012
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KDDI selects Gemalto for Japan’s first mobile NFC launch
Sunday, April 15, 2012 |
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Summary
KDDI, with over 34 million customers in Japan, has selected Gemalto for Japan's first commercial launch of mobile NFC services. The launch is a part of the recently announced Japan Mobile NFC Consortium that brings together the country’s three largest operators to coordinate the adoption of multiple international standards for NFC. Subscribers are able to experience various types of contactless services ranging from mobile payments, transportation services, e-driver’s licenses, e-ticketing as well as information acquisition from smart posters. The launch sees participation from a wide-range of leading industries including car manufacturers, airlines and cinema operators. The launch in Japan will also allow end users to use NFC services both domestically and outside of Japan. (Business Wire) |
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FELICA/NFC News of 2/22/2011
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Surprise? 10 years in, ComScore Discovers m-Commerce in Japan
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
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Summary
That's right. After ten years of leading the world in mobile commerce, Japan has leapt ahead to take the lead again, and it has snagged the attention of the foreign media. This surprising non-news was broken by ComScore at the Mobile World Congress and picked up by NMA. But seriously, the stats recorded are actually head-turning: almost 10% of all Japan's mobile users (9.8m) used their mobile wallets in December 2010; 7.6m Japanese paid for products on their phones at retail or convenience stores, while 3.2m used their mobile wallets at vending machines in December. Other popular venues for making mobile payments include public transport (2.7m people), grocery stores (2.6m) and restaurants (1.5m). (New Media Age) |
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DOCOMO gets real, joins KT to Launch Cross-border NFC Services
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
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Summary
Now that it is clear the planet is NOT going to adopt Japanese FeliCa technology for near field communication, Japan's biggest mobile player has announced plans to integrate payment services along foreign-developed NFC standards. The announcement comes from NTT DoCoMo
regarding is agreement with KT Corp, the leading South Korean telecom, operator to develop cross-border services for mobile payments, mass-transit ticketing, promotional coupons, etc., which they will launch in their respective markets of Japan and South Korea from around the end of 2012. The two companies say they are developing NFC common specifications that will be incorporated in devices, networks and billing platforms for seamlessly connected mobile NFC services for customers traveling between South Korea and Japan. Ah, if only the world had gone the Japanese way, we would all be shopping with our phones by now... (Docomo) |
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Japanese mobile industry ponders Galapagos Effect |
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Summary (gilesrichter.com)
Japan has a super-powerful mobile ecosystem worth billions, brimming with futuristic technologies, business models, and experiences that the world wants to emulate. But is it a model or an anomaly? And does it only exist because it was incubated in isolat... |
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Surprise? 10 years in, ComScore Discovers m-Commerce in Japan |
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Summary (New Media Age)
That's right. After ten years of leading the world in mobile commerce, Japan has leapt ahead to take the lead again, and it has snagged the attention of the foreign media. This surprising non-news was broken by ComScore at the Mobile World Congress an... |
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Japan slices books into e-reader-sized bytes |
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Summary (News on Japan)
Would you pay $1 a copy to have all the books in your house cut up and scanned to PDF? That's what is happening in Japan, where cramped living conditions and the arrival of the iPad in May have spawned as many as 60 companies offering to turn paper bo... |
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