Wednesday, June 15, 2005
IP backbone for Japan's mobile operators
Japan's operators are investing to build IP (Internet Protocol) backbone networks:
More: Japan Telecommunications report
More: Japan Telecommunications report
Mobile operators invest US$ 15 billion
Japan's top three mobile operators DoCoMo, KDDI and Vodafone announced plans to invest about US$ 15 billion during FY 2005 (April 2005 - March 2006):
Location based services in Japan
About 20% of mobile phones have GPS in Japan, and both KDDI and DoCoMo are integrating location based services into their mobile internet services EZweb and i-Mode. We completed a report on location based services in Japan [download here].
