NTT DoCoMo: Marketing i-mode
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:17:02
Business Information Systems II
NTT DoCoMo: Marketing i-mode
Marc Hesse, Jan Upmeier, Philip Ebeling, Robert Vennemann
Q1. Japan's technological infrastructure: With its low internet penetration and already high mobile network coverage, Japan was an ideal place to implement a mobile internet service.
NTT DoCoMo's market position: Due to the former governmental telecom monopoly NTT its subsidiary DoCoMo has a 60% share of Japan's mobile internet market. This allows the market leader to dictate strict specifications to
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April 2004 they had 45.9 million customers, which account for 56.3% of the total Japanese mobile phoning market. By 2005 47.4 million customers are forecasted. With the launch of the 3G-network a special flat rate is offered which decreases the turnover by 2.5% on the one hand and on the other results in an increase in net profit of 15.5% by 2004.
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http://www.ub.uni-duisburg.de/japan/177.pdf
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