The Japanese mobile phone industry has demonstrated growth for the second consecutive year
Japanese Wimax services provider UQ Communications will begin offering services in several underground stations, from Akasaka station to Fukuokakuko station, on the Kuko line of Fukuoka city subway from the end of March.
Prestigious Award Recognises GSMA Operator Members for Contributions to Japan’s Recovery Following Massive 2011 Earthquake; GSMA Announces Disaster Response Programme to Aid the Mobile Industry in Preparedness and Recovery
Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo is teaming up with third party software developer Jasper Wireless to wirelessly connect machine-to-machine (M2M) and consumer electronics devices across Japan.
Amazon.com will start selling its Kindle e-book readers in Japan as early as April for over JPY 20,000.
Disney Mobile has operated as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in Japan since 2008, selling Disney-themed phones with partners such as Softbank (see farther below).
Panasonic has begun providing Wimax services as an MVNO in Japan.
Maximum Downlink Speeds of 37.5 Mbps Create a Mobile Communications Environment With Low Latency
Japanese trading company 丸紅株式会社 / Marubeni will enter the mobile market via a joint venture with Japan Communications.
会社案内 | So-net 会社情報 / Sony Communication Network Corporation (So-net) is a Media Company and Service Provider in Japan that provides its customers with FTTH, ADSL and an MVNO service with maximum download traffic speed of 14Mbps for ¥2,770 a month from October using NTT DoCoMo’s Network.
Solar power development company Mobile Media has launched a new Smart Solar’s MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) using Japan Communications Inc. MVNE solution to enable a SIM-only communication solution/terminal applications for Japan.
エヌディエス(TikiTiki)/ Enudiesu (TikiTiki) is a new MVNO using NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA network and is a communications-based service that provides a single SIM card 「Tikiモバイル Liteプラス / “Tiki Mobile Lite Plus”.
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PLDT Global Corporation (PGC), in cooperation with Docomo Pacific, launched its Mobile Virtual Network Operation (MVNO) business to Filipinos in Guam in June.
Japan Communications inc., and Hitachi Information Systems have announced an agreement to support a Cloud Based MVNE services for MVNOs in Japan.
Japanese MVNE/O which uses NTT DoCoMo’s 3G network and WiFi Provider Tesa schedules launch of new bundle Light Tab + Fair
As Japan’s mobile telecommunications market continues to mature in line with the rise in cellular penetration rate, competition among operators remains intense in such areas as acquisition of subscribers and further improvement of service offerings.
G-Book is a Japanese MVNO Service offered by Toyota Motor Corporation’s Media Division; Toyota Media Services which is a telematics subscription service for Toyota- and Lexus-branded vehicles.
B-Mobile “Fair”, is a new Japanese MVNO (owned by Japan Communications Inc.,) which operates “other sub-brands” under the Name B-Mobile has recently launched a data only Fair 1 GB SIM product with official orders to be taken from the 15th of April, 2011.
R-STREAM launches a new MVNO on NTT DoCoMo network and offers services under the brand name “R-Sky” with unique handset and/or SIM only proposition.