<nettime> Where are the world's wireless internet users?

["ben moretti" <bmoretti@chariot.net.au>]

[the graphs on this page are well worth looking at. b]

http://www.eurotechnology.com/imode/

Where are the world's wireless internet users? 

81% (25 million) of the world's mobile internet users are 
in Japan now! and with the introduction of 3G broadband mobile
services in spring 2001 Japan is leading the world in mobile communications.
Can you afford to ignore Japan? 
 
NTT-DoCoMo's imode (i-mode, mobile internet access): 
16,574,000 imode subscribers (21 December 2000, 
increasing 50,000-60,000/day)

Japan's mobile telephone subscribers: 
54,109,000 subscribers (31 Dec 1999; cell: 48,475,000 
+ PHS: 5,634,000)

54,774,000 subscribers (31 Jan 2000; cell: 49,102,000 
+ PHS: 5,671,000)

56,849,000 subscribers (31 Mar 2000; cell: 51,141,000 
+ PHS: 5,708,000)

62,185,000 subscribers (31 Oct 2000; cell: 56,318,000 
+ PHS: 5,867,000)

 

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