Gerhard Fasol.

Tag: 3G

  • 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”.

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  • "The Economist" about 3G in Japan

    An article in The Economist about Vodafone is partly based on our analysis:

    “Vodafone- Not so big in Japan” (The Economist, Sept 30th, 2004)

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  • 21.6 million 3G subscribers in Japan (31 August 2004)

    The mobile phone subscriber statistics for August 2004 in Japan came out:

    3G subscribers:

    KDDI/AU: 15,511,800 subscribers, conversion rate to 3G: 86.1%
    DoCoMo: 5,900,200 subscribers, conversion rate to 3G: 12.6%
    Vodafone: 237,600 subscribers, conversion rate to 3G: 1.6%

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  • KDDI/AU has 80% of users on 3G

    80% of KDDI/AU users are now converted to 3G, and KDDI/AU does not sell any 2G phones any more: only 3G and 3.5G (2.4Mbps data download).

    Conversion to 3G in Japan: AU leads, DoCoMo and Vodafone follow. Vodafone's 3G conversion has stalled because of lack or attractive handsets in Japan and too low investment in 3G base stations
    Conversion to 3G in Japan: AU leads, DoCoMo and Vodafone follow. Vodafone’s 3G conversion has stalled because of lack or attractive handsets in Japan and too low investment in 3G base stations

    Here is KDDI/AU‘s newest 3.5G phone – the W21SA, for 2.4Mbps data download:

    KDDI 3G mobile handset W21SA
    KDDI 3G mobile handset W21SA

    More about Japan’s mobile telecom sector:Eurotechnology Japan report on Japan’s telecom industry

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  • Economist on 3G: "Vision, meet reality"

    Just read an article in the Economist:

    “Mobile 3G telecoms: Vision, meet reality”

    which quotes ITU’s 2000 vision for 3G (ITU = International Telecommunication Union):

    The device will function as a phone, a computer, a television, a pager, a videoconferencing centre, a newspaper, a diary and even a credit card…it will support not only voice communications but also real-time video and full-scale multimedia. It will automatically search the internet for relevant news and information on pre-selected subjects, book your next holiday for you online and download a bedtime story for your child, complete with moving pictures. It will even be able to pay for goods when you shop via wireless electronic funds transfer. In short, the new mobile handset will become the single, indispensable “life tool”, carried everywhere by everyone, just like a wallet or purse is today.

    Interestingly, every single detail of ITU’s 2000 3G-vision has now been realized now by DoCoMo in Japan.

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