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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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SOFTBANK News of 9/7/2011
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Softbank continues lead in new subscribers for mobile/PHS in August
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 |
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Summary
The Telecommunications Carriers Association (TCA) announced subscriber numbers for Japan’s carriers today which saw Softbank maintain its top position in new subscribers in the mobile and PHS category. Softbank had a net increase of 239,000 subscribers followed by NTT DoCoMo, and au with 182,100 and 73,000 new subscribers respectively. (Keitai Watch) |
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SOFTBANK News of 9/4/2011
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Softbank to provide information on user age to GREE, Mixi
Sunday, September 4, 2011 |
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Summary
In a move to lessen underage users access to certain content, SOFTBANK Mobile will begin providing information on users’ ages to social media hubs GREE and Mixi from this fall. All information will be provided after first receiving user approval, however users who refuse to provide this information will be prevented from accessing over-age content. This service will also be offered on all smartphones and feature phones with access to the above social networking sites. (Keitai Watch) |
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SOFTBANK News of 2/22/2011
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No where else to grow: Softbank Rises on Chinese IPO
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
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Summary
All the big mobile players in Japan are staring down the same double-barreled threat to their future: total market saturation AND an aging population. Sure, you can potentially put a wireless antenna on everything ELSE in the room, and yes there is probably a lot of potential in wireless hospice care applications, but the only real direction to grow if you want to expand like Facebook is OUT. That's why Softbank, Japan's third-largest mobile-phone operator, rose to the highest level in more than four years in Tokyo trading on Chinese affiliate Renren.com's plan for a $500 million U.S. initial public offering this year. Renren.com, China's largest social-networking service, is preparing an IPO to capitalize on strengthening demand for the nation's Internet stocks, three people with knowledge of the plan said. The banks handling the IPO are Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank AG and Credit Suisse Group AG. The offering could come by June. Softbank is the biggest shareholder in Beijing-based Renren, with a stake of about 40 percent. (Business Week) |
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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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