Vodafone Quitting Japan

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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On the flip side

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Just about all Japanese handset makers are quitting the European market because their small, sleek, feature-packed phones designed for Japanese customers don't jive with the large, clumsy phones that typify the phones of European manufacturers. (Except Sony-Ericsson which seems to still have a finger in the European pie.)

Another flash, value-destroying brand swap?

[winston_pr]

Vodafone+Yahoo = Yodafone