Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Will the iPhone trigger a turning point in Japan's mobile phone industry?
Tetsuzo Matsumoto (Senior Executive Vice-President and Board Member of SOFTBANK MOBILE Corporation),
Gerhard Fasol (CEO, Eurotechnology Japan KK)
and
Dennis Normile (Japan Correspondent of SCIENCE Magazine, and FCCJ)
discuss about the future of Japan's mobile phone market.
"Will the iPhone trigger a turning point in Japan's mobile phone industry?"
(Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Tokyo Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 12:00-14:00)
(Photo: Copyright Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, used with permission)

Gerhard Fasol (CEO, Eurotechnology Japan KK)
and
Dennis Normile (Japan Correspondent of SCIENCE Magazine, and FCCJ)
discuss about the future of Japan's mobile phone market.
"Will the iPhone trigger a turning point in Japan's mobile phone industry?"
(Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Tokyo Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 12:00-14:00)
(Photo: Copyright Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, used with permission)

Labels: 3G, Apple, cellphone, iPhone, iPhone 3G, mobile phone, Softbank
Sunday, January 28, 2007
3G Summit & Mobile Payment workshop
22-25 January 2007 MarcusEvans organized the "Global 3G Evoluation Forum" in Makuhari near Tokyo.
Speakers included:
Takanori Utano, Executive Vice-President and CTO of DoCoMo,
Takehiro Nakamura of NTT and Vice-Chairman of 3GPP
Jean-Pierre Bienaime, Chairman of the UMTS-Forum,
Gaston Ormazabal of Verizon Labs
and many other leading mobile communications managers from all over the world.
Jointly with Jan Larsson, General Strategy Manager of TeliaSonera International Carrier division, I chaired all sessions all day on Wednesday January 24, 2007.
On Monday, January 22, 2007, I held a three hour workshop about "Mobile Payment".
Speakers included:
Takanori Utano, Executive Vice-President and CTO of DoCoMo,
Takehiro Nakamura of NTT and Vice-Chairman of 3GPP
Jean-Pierre Bienaime, Chairman of the UMTS-Forum,
Gaston Ormazabal of Verizon Labs
and many other leading mobile communications managers from all over the world.
Jointly with Jan Larsson, General Strategy Manager of TeliaSonera International Carrier division, I chaired all sessions all day on Wednesday January 24, 2007.
On Monday, January 22, 2007, I held a three hour workshop about "Mobile Payment".
Labels: 3G, 3GPP, felica, mobile payment, suica, UMTS
