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Vodafone Quitting Japan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-listening-to-your-target-audience dept.

dimension6 writes "Reuters is reporting that Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone operator, is quitting business in Japan. Vodafone has been having a difficult time since they entered the Japanese market, a result of many blunders such as introducing Nokia brick phones where flip-phones are the norm and being slow to adopt 3G technology widely used by its competitors. Vodafone claimed that being part of the most advanced mobile phone market helped boost their sales elsewhere, but few Japanese-market phones have made it to other countries. The Japanese Vodafone division is likely to be bought by Softbank, the largest ISP in Japan."

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  1. Amazing by quokkapox · · Score: 2, Funny
    Vodafone+Yahoo = Yodafone?
    Vodafone+Yahoo = Voodoo! [from slashdot.jp site]

    Amazing... Over there they moderate each other up for different, yet equally stupid jokes.

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  2. Re:Trend? by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe it was an implicit Soviet Russia joke?

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  3. Re:For those with Japanese language skill by DimJim · · Score: 2, Funny

    Omg! Slashdot Japan, how did i miss that.

    Does anyone know what jokes are repeated there? My Japanese seems to be litte rusty.

    Everyone seems to have a lowId there, is that where all the old slashdotters go to die?

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  4. Re:But they said by sparkydevil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Things are easy when you are Big in Japan. Becoming big is the hard bit.

  5. Re:Brick phones?? by david.heyman · · Score: 2, Funny

    2) Screen getting greasy because you put it against your ear
    Perhaps you should stop stufing french fries in your ear.

  6. Re:I believe they should have stayed in it by slavemowgli · · Score: 3, Funny

    But the idea that an American company can't do well in Japan is false, look at Apple:

    Of course, Vodafone is actually a British company.

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