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Understanding The Japanese Wireless Market

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 25, 2002 @07:50AM from the simple-is-good dept.

Brent writes "In this installment of 'Secrets of the wireless elite,' you'll learn about the prevalent technologies in the Japanese market. In addition, it shows why publishing Web sites for wireless -- while not technically revolutionary -- is where the market is right now."

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Contents and Payment by e8johan · 2002-09-25 22:00 · Score: 4, Interesting

The reason the Japaneese use the wireless media so much is because they have good contents (in the meaning worth paying for) and a good, centralized system for distibuting the micro-payments to the contents providers.
This is the difference between the Japanees wireless market and the European and US markets. Why is this so? Because NTT DoCoMo has realized that they can't expect good contents if they take all the profit as our (EU+US) mobile service providers try to do.