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Korean Communications Conference:
"Ubiquitous networks for disasters"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, COEX Seoul,
May 12, 2011, 16:00-18:00
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American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ), Tokyo:
"The beauty of Japan's Galapagos Effect - and how to go beyond"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, Tokyo Westin Hotel, July 12, 2010, 12:00-14:00
Embassy of Sweden (Tokyo):
"The beauty of Japan's Galapagos effect - and how to go beyond"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Tokyo, May 19, 2010, 18:30
NIST, Washington DC:
"Will cash become obsolete? Next-next generation electronic and mobile payments in Japan"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Washington (DC), April 21, 2010,
NIST, Washington DC:
"Understanding Ludwig Boltzmann"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Washington (DC), April 21, 2010,
MIT Enterprise Forum:
"Next generation Electronic Payments Solutions"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Boston (MA), April 19, 2010,
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Japan's telecom and media markets
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Japan's Telecom Industry
With a market size of US$ 200 billion for operators alone, about US$ 20 billion in network investments per year Japan is one of the world's largest and most advanced telecom markets. This report gives detailed market data and analysis including technologies and trends, financial results, subscriber numbers, market shares, investments, number of base stations, spectrum band distribution of base stations, and many more data.
Version 56, of January 20, 2011
approx. 301 pages, approx. 105 Figures and 115 Photographs and 12 tables, pdf-format, 8.0 Mbyte
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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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KDDI, AU and UQ
KDDI with mobile brand AU has succeeded with 3G data services years earlier than NTT DoCoMo, and from 2009 is building out nationwide UQ WiMax mobile internet services. Under the brand iida, KDDI pioneered design project mobile phones. This report presents an overview of KDDI's businesses and strategies, and includes recent results and financial projections together with many operational details, statistics and analysis, including for example accurate numbers of base stations deployed over time and more.
Version 16 of January 6, 2011
approx. 219 pages, 36 Figures, 160 Photos, 8 Tables, pdf-format, 12.4 Mbyte
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SoftBank- The Time Machine Company - setting Japan's telecoms on fire...
SoftBank acquired and turned around the former Vodafone Japan mobile phone operations. As an investment company, SoftBank achieved a 9-times return on invested capital in companies including Yahoo Inc., and Yahoo Japan. Read here why charismatic CEO Masayoshi Son calls it a "time-machine company". We explain an overview of the SoftBank group, and focus particularly delivering a detailed analysis and data of SoftBank's mobile phone business, including detailed financial data, subscriber statistics, and base station data. Also included is a detailed discussion of "Wireless City Planning Inc" and the SoftBank led turn-round of 100Mbps next generation PHS services.
Version 13 of January 6, 2011 (includes financial results and projections)
approx. 167 pages, including approx. 54 Figures and 60 Photographs and 4 tables, pdf-format, 3.9 Mbyte
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eMobile - the New Age mobile operator
eMobile started on March 31, 2007 as Japan's newest mobile operator, has attracted around 3 million subscribers with HSPDA data services with download speeds up to 42 Mbps. This report analyses eMobile's results and strategy as a "New Age" mobile operator
Version 11 of January 6, 2011
approx. 79 pages, including approx. 21 Figures and 13 Photographs and 9 tables, pdf-format, 2 Mbyte
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Location based mobile services in Japan
Japan introduced the world's first mobile location based service (LBS), and the world's first mobile phones with GPS (satellite Global Positioning) in 2001. Today 90% of Japan's mobile phones are equiped with GPS, and augmented satellite positioning can achieve 3 cm (1 inch) resolution. It is estimated that associated location based services will become a US$ 12 billion/year business. This report gives an overview of Japan's location based services for mobile phones.
Version 8 of February 1, 2011
approx. 139 pages, 8 Figures, 68 Photos, 17 Tables pdf-format, 6.8 Mbyte
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QR codes for mobile phones and 105 applications
QR codes are hot - QR codes link mobile phone users to information, useage is growing explosively worldwide. QR codes were developed in Japan around 1994, first introduced to mobile phones in Japan in 2002. This report explains the most important facts, and introduces the 105 most important applications, collected and analyzed in Japan over the last years.
Version 16 of March 6, 2011
approx. 223 pages, 17 Figures, 250 Photos, 21 Tables, pdf-format, 13 Mbyte
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Mobile digital TV in Japan
Digital terrestrial TV (One-Seg, or 1seg) to mobile phones (mobile TV) started in Japan on April 1, 2006, and Japan's 1seg standard is also used in South America including Brazil. This report gives a comprehensive overview of the different types of mobile TV in Japan, describes business models used successfully in Japan for monetizing mobile TV. The report includes quantitative estimates of market size, and details of the numbers of mobile TV phones shipped (includes 2010 data, estimations of how many hours/month people watch mobile TV) and an introduction to DoCoMo's new profitable mobile beeTV
Version 14 of January 22, 2011
approx. 126 pages, 11 Figures, 50 Photos, 12 Tables, pdf-format, 4.7 Mbyte
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Japan's 3G success story
This report reviews Japan's 3G market: operators, handsets, software, infrastructure, and services, and the difficulties which had to be overcome to make 3G a success. As Japan's 3G market is several years ahead of most other markets, this report includes answers to the question how other markets can learn from Japan's 3G introduction.
Version 19 of January 19, 2009,
approx. 171 pages, 41 Figures, 48 Photos, 2 Tables, pdf-format, 5.2 Mbyte
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Nintendo and Japan's game industry
With Wii, DS, and DSi Nintendo created several paradigm shifts in global game markets. This report analyses Japan's game industries, and examines Nintendo driven trends in the global game sector from our Japan perspective, including detailed financial analysis. Also included are online and mobile games, which are rapidly growing. A must read for anyone interested in understanding current trends in the game industry (financial data include are for FY ending March 2009 plus projections for the FY ending March 31, 2010).
Version 16 of July 20, 2009
approx. 231 pages, 50 Figures, 83 Photos, 32 tables, pdf-format, 5.1 Mbyte
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Japan's Media Industry
This report analyses Japan's US$ 350 billion media markets. Japan's newspapers have the largest circulation in the world, and Japan continuous to drive many media innovations, such as keitai novels: novels written on mobile phones for mobile phones. New: now includes TV group financials.
Version 8 of May 23, 2009
approx. 173 pages, 25 Figures, 63 Photos, 21 Tables, pdf-format, 6 Mbyte
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Mobile music Japan
Music downloads to mobile phones dominate Japan's online music market and strongly eat into the traditional CDROM market. This report is a comprehensive overview of Japan's mobile music market: ring tones, ringback tones, chaku-uta and chaku-uta-full. Find it all explained here.
Version 12 of May 15, 2006
approx. 177 pages, 27 Figures, 111 Photos, 10 Tables, pdf-format, 14 Mbyte
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Mobile payments, e-cash and keitai credit
e-Money and mobile payments started in Japan in 1999 - 10 years ago, and usage is growing exponentially. e-Money and mobile payments already today are an important and big part of Japan's economy. This report includes many usage statistics, quantitative analysis and projections. Case studies explain successful business models which can be applied elsewhere in the world.
Version 21 of July 13, 2009
approx. 228 pages, 44 Figures, 106 Photos, 7 Tables, pdf-format, 6.4 Mbyte
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Wallet phones
Wallet phones are mobile phones which can be used as credit cards, electronic cash, rail tickets, club memberships and much more. Japan is ahead of the world in mobile phone payments, this report shows why and how.
Version 15 of August 12, 2008
approx. 187 pages, 20 Figures, 80 Photographs, 6 Tables, pdf-format, 4.9 Mbyte
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SUICA and PASMO: mobile and near field tickets for transport
Almost all Tokyo people pay train trips with SUICA near-field payment cards, often embedded into mobile phones. This report explains technical details, market size and gives a comprehensive overview of the market dynamics of mobile payments end e-payments for transport.
Version 12 of July 9, 2009
approx. 169 pages, 3 Figures, 60 Photographs, 12 Tables, pdf-format, 7 Mbyte
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Mobile and e-cash payment for vending machines
This report describes current status and trends of mobile payment and e-cash (RFID-type) payment systems for vending machines in Japan.
Version 8 of June 9, 2009
approx. 70 pages, including approx. 14 Figures and 35 Photographs, pdf-format, 1.7 Mbyte
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Japan's electrical companies: "mono zukuri"
Japan's top electrical companies combined are of similar economic size as the Netherlands and play an extremely important role in the world. The report analyzes Japan's electric companies including their financials and trends.
Companion to the author's regular CNBC TV interviews
Version 12 of January 18, 2011
approx. 140 pages, 78 Figures, 16 Photos, 20 tables, pdf-format, 1.9 Mbyte
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Solid State Lighting, GaN LEDs and lasers
This report explains the technologies, markets, key players, and much quantitative analysis to understand the solid state lighting revolution (written by one of the authors of the book "The Blue Laser Diode" by Shuji Nakamura and Gerhard Fasol, Springer Verlag)
Version 12 of January 4, 2009
approx. 122 pages, approx. 25 Figures, 21 Photographs, 9 tables, pdf-format, 2.7 Mbyte
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Wireless Collection
Collection of ten reports: (1) J-COMM, (2) DoCoMo and i-Mode, (3) KDDI, (4) SoftBank, (5) eMobile, (6) 3G, (7) Mobile TV, (8) Mobile Music, (9) QR Codes, (10) Location based services (LBS)
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Mobile payment, mobile credit and e-money Collection
Collection of five reports: (1) Mobile payment, e-cash and keitai credit, (2) Wallet phones, (3) SUICA and PASMO: mobile and near field tickets for transport (4) Mobile and e-cash payment for vending machines, (5) QR codes and color codes for mobile phones and CRM
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Eurotechnology Japan newsletters (monthly reports about Japanese technology trends that matter)
Each monthly issue captures important trends, analyzes financial results, and introduces some of the most remarkable Japanese companies.
Current issue: June 2010
topic: "The beauty of Japan's Galapagos effect and how to go beyond"
(based on presentations to Japan's "Post-Galapagos Committee" and at the Swedish Embassy, organized by Stockholm School of Economics)
Companion to the author's regular CNBC TV interviews
One newsletter issued per month as a pdf-file.
approx. 40-50 pages each month, figures, tables, and photographs, pdf-file, approx, 1 MByte
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