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DoCoMo and the i-Mode Ecosystem
Overview report of DoCoMo, one of the world's most advanced mobile operators, and i-Mode, the pioneering mobile internet system which started in Japan in February 1999. The report also describes DoCoMo's pioneering mobile payment systems.
Version 28 of January 6, 2011
approx. 197 pages, including approx. 48 Figures and 140 Photographs and 10 tables, pdf-format, 8 Mbyte
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i-mode | Go to our unofficial independent i-Mode FAQ
i-Mode is NTT DoCoMo's mobile internet business system with 48 Million paying subscribers (as of July 2008). DoCoMo's competitors have developed competing and very similar mobile internet systems with a total number of 89.5 Million paying subscribers, ie. about 72% of Japan's population are active and paying mobile internet users. i-Mode has been offered commercially starting in February 1999, and it's success exceeded any expection.
i-Mode is primarily a consumer brand under which NTT DoCoMo sells a variety of mobile communications services including mobile email, mobile data subscriptions, mobile commerce, mobile content, mobile music and more, and i-Mode also represents a business and technology platform for these services, including data centers, security systems, billing systems, and the associated software and hardware infrastructure.
i-Mode and competing systems (EZweb, Yahoo-mobile, EMnet, and Willcom's online services) are fully integrated into Japan's daily life and social system. During emergencies, displaced population in emergency shelters use i-Mode, EZweb, and other mobile internet services to communicate with their friends and family, when voice connections are overloaded, or when emergency communications take priority over private communications.
Our i-Mode FAQ summerizes some key facts of imode. If you need a more detailed overview, you may be interested in purchasing and downloading our market reports describing DoCoMo's imode, and KDDI's, SoftBank's, and eMobile's competing services.
Go to our unofficial independent i-Mode FAQ