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Japan Telecommunications Report Q1 2011
Business Monitor International, Dec 2010, Pages: 99
Business Monitor International's Japan Telecommunications Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, telecommunication associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on Japan's telecommunications industry.
BMI’s latest update of Japan’s telecommunications market provides latest mobile, 3G and fixed line figures for the quarter ended September 2010, and which led to a revision in forecasts. No new data was provided for the broadband subscriber market, the latest available being for the three months ended March 2010 by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).
There were a total of 113.191mn 3G subscribers in Japan at the end of September 2010, which accounted for 94.8% of the total mobile subscriber base at 119.447mn. Over the year ended September 2010, the number of 3G subscribers rose by 8.5% y-o-y (compared with an 8.9% y-o-y rise in Q210), while in terms of the overall mobile subscriber base, it was up by 4.7% y-o-y (Vs. 4.2% y-o-y increase ended Q210). As reiterated previously, the closure of 2G networks and the growth in smartphone handsets on the market, combined with flat-rate data packets are helping to boost 3G subscriber growth.
Operators such as NTT DoCoMo are already looking to launch commercial super 3G services by YE10, called long term evolution (LTE). The operator announced in November 2010, that it is on track to launch commercial LTE services in December 2010, pledging a further investment of JPY305bn (US$3.78bn) in the next-generation technology over the next three years. The next-generation technology will initially be available on data modems for personal computers in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.
A major competitor to LTE is WiMAX 2. South Korea-based Samsung Electronics demonstrated its WiMAX 2 technology based on the IEEE 802.16m standard with speeds of up to 330Mbps at a Japanese trade conference in early October 2010. The company partnered with Japan's UQ Communications to showcase full high-definition 3D videos on the trial WiMAX system over Samsung's commercial mobile WiMAX base station, which is the same as those deployed by WiMAX operators worldwide. However, Samsung's first commercial solutions of WiMAX 2 will only be introduced by end-2011.
Meanwhile, the two regional units of NTT, NTT East and NTT West said in November 2010 that they will migrate all fixed-line phones over to Internet Protocol (IP) phones by around 2025. The migration from the public switched telephone network to the IP network will come as service lives expire for circuit switches for fixed phone services and broadband internet networks are spreading. In related news, rival operator Softbank Mobile had announced in the previous month of October 2010, that Japan should build a new broadband super highway, which could help to reinvigorate the world's third largest economy. Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son called for a five-year plan to replace all telecoms' metal cable lines (fixed lines) in Japan for fibre optics, in a joint private effort that would save up to US$8bn a year.
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