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KDDI/AU announced that 5 Millions Chaku-Uta-Full songs have been downloaded until April 3, 2005.




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Note added: on June 15, 2005, KDDI reported 10 million Chaku-Uta-Full downloads...

Recently the President of Germany, Bundespraesident Horst Koehler (previously President of the International Monetary Fund - IMF), visited Japan to open the German Year in Japan.

At the beginning of the visit, on April 3, 2005, four experts briefed The President and about 30 German Leaders, Members of Parliament, the President of Germany's Industry Federation BDI, and other VIPs in a 2 1/2 hour long discussion about Japan's economy, politics, culture and technology sectors and their impact on Germany.

The author of this blog was briefed the President of Germany on Japan's technology sector and impact on Germany. The write-up of this presentation was handed out to participants and after the briefing to the Press. If you are interested, you can download the presentation here:
Presentation in Japan's Technology sector to the President of Germany (April 3, 2005, in German).
Presentation in Japan's Technology sector to the President of Germany (April 3, 2005, in English).

March is the month when new subscriptions peak in Japan. During March 2005 around one million new subscribers signed up for mobile services in Japan, the net gain (new subscriptions minus cancellations) was 930,500. New subscribers were shared as follows between carriers:

DoCoMo: + 480,200 (+ 51.6%)
KDDI/AU: + 436,100 (+ 46.9%)
WILLCOM: + 33,300 (+ 3.6%)
KDDI/TuKa: - 2,600 (- 0.3%)
Vodafone: -7,400 (-0.8%) <--- (without restatement: -58,400)
Astel: - 9,100 (- 1.0%)

TOTAL: + 930,500 (100%)

Vodafone announced a new method to calculate numbers. Without this new way of calculating, Vodafone's loss would have been: -58,400

e-Access Chairman & CEO, Sachio Semmoto and Lucent Chairman & CEO Patricia Russo on March 30, 2005 in Tokyo, explained their joint tests of HSDPA services in Tokyo. e-Access is preparing to enter Japan's mobile communications industry with the brand "e-Mobile", and is currently conducting tests with Lucent and Fujitsu as equipment providers.

Former US Ambassador to Japan, Thomas Foley, presenting his wishes for the Lucent-eAccess cooperation:



Sachio Semmoto and Patricia Russo answering questions having presented their visions of new mobile services in Japan:



e-Mobile's logo: