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"Japan's Telecommunications Industry" (Report, pdf-file)

Summary

Japan's telecommunications industry size is on the order of US$ 200 billion for the operators alone, and annualy about US$ 20 billion are invested in networks. Japan's has probably the world's most advanced cellular networks, and a very advanced acceptance by consumers and industrial customers of wireless services.
Japan introduced the mobile internet to the world in 1999 with i-Mode, and is still leading today with mobile money, mobile payment, location based services, and is now rolling out LTE.
This report gives a thorough overview of Japan's telecommunications markets, with a wealth of statistical and financial data in visualized graphical form with analysis and trends.

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Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary, Agenda (List of Contents)
  • Japans telecom industry - Introduction
    Key trends for 2011 (updated January 2011)
  • Japan's communications industries, e-Japan and u-Japan
    Before the i-Phone and after the i-Phone
    Japan - the mobile time machine (tabular overview of the introduction date of advanced mobile service in Japan vs EU
    How did Japan's telecom industry become one of the world's most competitive? (historic overview)
  • E-Japan I and II and u-Japan
    e-Japan and the IT strategy headquarters
    e-Japan (Prime Minister's office)
    u-Japan
  • Galapagos effect and the Post Galapagos working group
    The Galapagos effect
    the Post Galapagos working group
    Key results and Recommendation
    A. Recommendations to the telecommunications operators
    B. Seven recommendations to electrical manufacturers
    C. Three recommendations to the content sector
  • Landscape, M&A and consolidation
    Japan's telecom landscape with an overview of the most important mergers, acquisitions, and the consolidation process, and new entrants
    (Graphics: industry structure and recent transactions, status of Dec 15, 2010)
  • Overview of Japan's telecom industry, and the major industrial groups and their affiliation
    Size (sales in 2003/2004) of top five Japanese telecom groups (Graphics: sales of the major Japanese telecom groups, data for fiscal 2003/2004)
  • Spectrum and base stations (cell phone towers)
    How many base stations are deployed in Japan, and in which spectrum bands
    Which spectrum is licensed to Japan's mobile operators?
    Are there spectrum auctions in Japan? What is the spectrum licensing process?
    How big is the base station market?
    Radio spectrum allocation for mobile communications
    Base station spectrum allocation in Japan (graphics showing the number of base stations per operator deployed in different spectrum bands 800 MHz - 2.7 GHz, status November 2010)
    Spectrum allocation and base station deployment in the 800 - 900 MHz band (graphics showing the number of base stations per operator deployed in the 800-900 MHz spectrum bands, status November 2010)
    Spectrum allocation and base station deployment in the 1.4 - 2.7 GHz band (graphics showing the number of base stations per operator deployed in the 1.4 - 2.7 MHz spectrum bands, status November 2010)
    Spectrum allocation and base station deployment in the 2.5 - 2.7 GHz band (graphics showing the number of base stations per operator deployed in the 2.5 - 2.7 MHz spectrum bands, status November 2010)
    Total summed spectrum allocation for each mobile operator (graphics, status November 2010)
    Total number of base stations over time for each operator and for different spectrum bands (graphics, data for 2005 - Dec 2010)
    Total number of 3G base stations over time for each operator and for different spectrum bands (graphics, data for 2005 - Dec 2010)
    Total number of LTE base stations over time for each operator and for different spectrum bands (graphics, data for 2010 and projection to 2013 for DoCoMo)
    Context: comparing the number of base stations in Japan and UK (graphics, data for 2005 - Dec 2010)
    How many base stations are deployed in Japan? (graphics, data each operator and spectral band for 2005 - Dec 2010)
    How many base stations are deployed in Japan? (graphics, total number of base stations for each operator for 2005 - Dec 2010)
    Total number of all base stations in Japan (graphics, total number of base stations for 2005 - Dec 2010)
    Growth per month of base stations numbers in Japan (graphics, monthly growth number of base stations for 2005 - Dec 2010)
    Annual growth of base stations numbers in Japan (graphics, total number of base stations for 2005 - Dec 2010)
    Repeaters and Boosters (data for 2005 - Dec 2010)
    Low power repeaters (data for 2005 - Dec 2010)
    Femto-cells
    How many PHS base stations are there in Japan (data for 2006 - Dec 2009)
  • Financials of the top players
    Annual Revenue of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - FY2011)
    Annual Operating income of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - FY2011)
    Annual Net after tax income of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - FY2011)
    Quarterly Revenue of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - FY2011)
    Quarterly Operating income of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - FY2011)
    Quarterly Net after tax income of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - FY2011)
    Capital investments of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - FY2011)
    ARPU (average revenue per user) of Japan's top mobile operators (DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank/Vodafone/J-Phone (data for 2000 - 2006)
  • NTT and DoCoMo
    NTT's main business areas (graphics showing revenues for each major business sector FY 2003 - FY 2007)
    NTT's revenue and net income (graphics: 2004-2011
  • KDDI
    KDDI's main business areas
    KDDI's main business areas: fixed and mobile (graphics, sales data for fiscal 2004-2008 )
    KDDI's history, major mergers and acquisitions between foundation in 1953 and 2006
    History of KDDI's service
    KDDI's revenue (graphics: KDDI total revenue, mobile communications revenue, data for 2000-2008
  • UQ communication - WiMax operator
    Strategy
    Capital structure, investors Number of subscribers compared to competitors (graphics: 2007 - 2010)
  • SoftBank Group
    Masayoshi Son
    SoftBank overview
    Main business areas
    Group structure
    Demonstrating SoftBank's corporate size: comparing Revenue, Net Profits, and stock capitalization between APPLE Computer and SoftBank (data for 2004-2005)
    Japan Telecom
    Media, TV business
  • SoftBank Mobile Overview
    Japan Telecom and J-Phone
    J-Phone's success story
    Vodafone's acquisition and sale of Japan Telecom including J-Phone
    From J-Phone to Vodafone
    Vodafone's turnround plans
  • The Acquisition of Vodafone KK by the SoftBank Group
    SoftBak acquires Vodafone KK - the Acquisition
    SoftBank's targets
    Risks and opportunities of SoftBank-Mobile's turn-round
    SoftBank's post-merger actions
    3G base stations and coverage
  • eAccess and eMobile
    Company structure
    AOL
  • IPmobile
  • Fixed line markets
    Fixed line markets, overview, and trends
    Fixed line market shares of the four top carriers (data for March 2004)
  • Basic Phone Service (POTS, VOIP)
    Market shares of the local and medium distance fixed line phone markets for top 5 carriers (data for Sept 2004)
    Competition for basic subscription voice telephony (data: major competing groups and pricing competition overview)
    Unbundling of fixed line services
    KDDI: IP telephone over dry copper, KDDI Metal Plus
    Competition for basic voice telephony (main competitors)
  • Broad Band
    Broadbank internet access costs (international comparison)
    Development of Japans broad band markets (history, present market situation, trends)
    Market shares for ADSL subscriptions for the top five carriers (data for Sept 2004)
    Market shares for Broad-band internet subscriptions for the top six ISPs (data for March 2004)
    Internet access in Japan, subscriber numbers for FTTH, cable TV, DSL, Dial-up (ISDN), and mobile internet (logarithmic graphics, data for 2001-2004, projection for 2005)
    Internet access in Japan, subscriber numbers for FTTH, cable TV, DSL, Dial-up (ISDN), and mobile internet (cumulative graphics: data for 2001-2004, projection for 2005)
    Fixed line internet access in Japan, subscriber numbers for FTTH, CATV, DSL, Dial-up (ISDN) (cumulative graphics: data for 2001-2004)
    Broad band internet access in Japan, subscriber numbers for FTTH, CATV, DSL (cumulative graphics: data for 2001-2004, projection to 2005)
  • NTTs national optical IP Network
    Outline, investment size, strategy
    Projected numbers for FTTH lines provided by NTT (data for 2002-2010 (plan by NTT))
    FTTH subscription numbers (comparing Japan and European Union - EU, data for 2000-2005 and projections to 2010)
  • KDDIs broad band business and strategy
    KDDIs broad band services
    Triple play, Metal-Plus, Hikari-One
  • Softbank/YAHOO-BBs fixed line business and strategy
    Softbank/YAHOO-BBs strategy
    Softbank/YAHOO-BBs entering the FTTH market
  • Wireless communication markets
    Overview
    Most important recent trends
  • Wireless communications, Mobile phones, 3G, PHS...
    Wireless market reality in Tokyo
    Japans mobile phone companies (2006/2007)
    Comparing 3G and 2G subscriber numbers for DoCoMo, Vodafone, KDDI, TuKa for different radio transmission technologies (PHS, PDC, 3G, CDMA2000-1x, CDMAone etc.) (data for 2002-2006)
    Competition on Japans mobile phone market, total subscriber contract statistics for the major carriers, also showing the historic consolidation of the mobile communications industry (companies: Digital Phone Group, Digital TuKa, J-Phone, Vodafone, DDI-Pocket, DoCoMo-PHS, ASTEL, Cellular Group, IDO, KDDI/AU, DoCoMo) (subscriber numbers for the period 1998 to 2006, including historic data of merged operators)
    Market shares (in terms of subscriber contracts) of the four major operators: DoCoMo, KDDI/AU, J-Phone/Vodafone, TuKa (Graphics: data for 1998-2006)
    Mobile internet subscriber numbers (i-Mode, EZweb, Yahoo-Keitai / J-Sky / Vodafone-Live, data for 1999 - 2006)
    Monthly subscriber number growth (net growth, net loss) for DoCoMo, KDDI/AU, SoftBank. Willcom (graph showing data 2004-2006)
    Monthly subscriber number growth (net growth, net loss) for DoCoMo, KDDI/AU, SoftBank, Willcom (graph showing data June 2006 - November 2006)
  • 3G and 3.5G in Japan
    Overview
    Waves of disruptive innovation
    Overview of mobile 3G internet services including potential new market entrants from 2005 and beyond
    3G introduction in Japan (subscriber numbers for KDDI, DoCoMo-FOMA and Vodafone VGS, projection for new market entries for second wave, data: subscriber contract statistics for 2001-2006)
    3G subscriber data total and for FOMA, SoftBank 3G, KDDI-AU CDMA (data for 2002 - 2006)
    DoCoMos "FOMA chasm" (mobile subscriber statistics for 2001-2004 with focus and discussion of the temporary plateau in DoCoMos FOMA roll-out)
    The first wave of Japans 3G roll-out (2001-2005) (Graphics: conversion rate from 2G to 3G and 2.5G for the 3G carriers in Japan, data for 2001-2004, plus indication of potential new entrants from 2005 and beyond)
    Market shares of Japans 3G market (Graphics: market shares in terms of 3G subscription numbers, data for 2002-2004, logarithmic scale)
    Market shares of Japans 3G market (Graphics: market shares in terms of 3G subscription numbers, data for 2002-2004, linear scale)
    The first wave of Japans 3G roll-out (2001-2005) (table showing the 3G and planned or deployed 3.5G systems and upgrade path, and data transmission speeds for different carriers)
    3G imaging and video
    3G vs WiFi (hotspots)
    Picture mail and GPS
  • Mobile Phone Handset Markets
    Japans mobile handset markets: key points
    Japans handset market versus GSM markets - key differences
    i-mode handsets, typical characteristics
    Evolution of i-Mode phone displays 2000-2004
    Example: DoCoMo 3G FOMA 900i series (2004)
    Japans market for mobile phone (Graphics: handset sales per month, sales data for 2001-2004)
    Market shares of camera phone makers (data for 2001 and 2002)
    DoCoMo FOMA P2102V
    Demonstration of GPS integration (KDDI/AU)
    Biometric sensor integration, fingerprint sensor (DoCoMo F505i by Fujitsu)
  • The "AU design project" Design as Value
    Significance of the "AU design project"
    Summary of "AU design project" 2001-2006 (table showing major design models: talby, info.bar, ishicoro, GRAPPA 002, rotary, wearable, apollo and apollo02, etc )
    Details: Infobar, Infobar 2, cypres, kaos, vols, talby, PENCK
  • Sweets for the teenage and subteen market
    As an example of targeting segments
  • Phones for the silver market
    DoCoMo's RakuRaku series
    TuKa-S TK50-S
  • DoCoMo's 3G Phones
    DoCoMo's 900i series, 700i series, Concept Phone series
  • Mobile phone sales in Japan
    Overview
    Promoting the 900i series
    Carriers competing face-to-face (images from a typical mobile phone store, demonstrating the competition of carriers via handset presentation)
    Focus on the KDDI/AU (3G and 3.5G handsets) vs Vodafone handset competition (2G handsets)
    Demonstration of a typical suburban KDDI/AU store, showing 3G and 3.5G handsets on display
    Vodafone global standard 3G phones
    Why did the October 2004 re-launch of 3G fail?
    From Vodafone to SoftBank
    Nokia mobile phone sales in Japan
  • Mobile internet and i-mode
    Why was i-mode born in Japan, not in Europe or USA
    The i-mode eco-system (graphics showing the interplay of the integrated i-Mode value chain orchestrated by DoCoMo)
    i-mode in a nutshell
    Market shares in Japan's mobile internet (data for i-Mode, EZweb, YAHOO-Keitai for 2001-2006)
    Cumulative total subscriber numbers in Japan's mobile internet (data for i-Mode, EZweb, YAHOO-Keitai for 2001-2006)
    Total subscriber numbers in Japan's mobile internet (data for i-Mode, EZweb, YAHOO-Keitai for 2001-2006)
    Month-to-month growth in Japan's mobile internet (data for i-Mode, EZweb, YAHOO-Keitai for 2004-2006)
  • EZweb - the official menu
    Evolution of the official menu (top) 2005 and 2006 (including GOOGLE mobile search)
    English menu, global site
    AU m-commerce portal portfolio
    AU auctions
  • SoftBank and YAHOO-Keitai
    Leveraging YAHOO for the SoftBank brand
    YAHOO-Keitai replaces Vodafone Live
    + YAHOO-Keitai = SoftBank campaign
  • m-Commerce, mobile payments and m-Transactions
    M-commerce and M-transactions (data and extrapolation for 2000-2010)
    m-Commerce, m-Content and m-Advertising in Japan to reach US$ 10 billion by 2005 (data for 2001-2005)
    i-Mode supports a range of m-Commerce and m-Transactions (overview of transaction classes)
    i-mode premium sites - a billion dollar market, figure of combined revenue of i-mode premium pay sites (data for 1999-2003)
    Around 50% of i-mode users subscribe to at least one pay site, figure with subscription data (data for 1999-2003)
  • Music, Mobile Music
    Characteristics and trends
    comulative total of downloaded music (comparing chaku uta, chaku uta full and iTunes)
    Mobile music compared to total music market
    Mobile music market size in Japan
    Poke Melo Joysound
    Full songs - chaku uta full
  • AU Listen Mobile service LISMO
    Characteristics and trends
    AU mUsic port
    LISMO music store
    Mobile music market size in Japan
  • Location based services and GPS
    Characteristics and trends
    EZnaviwalk
    3D navi
    i-Area
  • Mobile payments and keitai credit
    Overview and trends
    Overview of e-money, and electronic transaction and credit systems
    DoCoMo's investments in banks and credit card companies
    Japan's credit card and cash payment markets (data for 1990 - 2010 projection
    Japan's credit card market
    Details, grapics, and implications of DoCoMo's investments
  • iD - DoCoMo's credit brand
    DoCoMo's iD mobile credit platform
    DCMX - DoCoMo as a credit card operator
    QuicPay contactless offline payments
  • FeliCa Wallet phones
    Wallet phone introduction, introductory models (data July 2004)
    Initial transaction partners for i-Mode/FeliCa (data July 2004)
    What are wallet phones? Overview
    Multi-application smartcards integrated into mobile phones (graphics showing the system overview)
    Cash register POS with Edy reader / writer
    Edy in Felica wallet phones
  • Mobile-TV
    Phones for mobile-TV (examples by SHARP and SONY-Ericsson
    Overview, 1-seg broadcast vs streaming over IP
    Three alternative screens
    Mobile digital TV and internet
  • Prepaid Mobile phones
    Prepaid mobile phones in Japan (statistics for Sept 2004, graphics for DoCoMo, AU, Vodafone/SoftBank, and TuKa)
  • Fixed-mobile integration and mobile wireless LAN integration and wireless VOIP
    3G - wireless LAN and 3G - fixed line integration
    DoCoMo "Passage Duple", combining FOMA 3G and wireless LAN, N900iL handset including photograph
    Wireless VOIP, discussion
  • Japan's telegram market
  • Summary

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