The Growth of Internet in Japan (2000s)
The growth of
Internet access in Japan has mirrored the rest of the industrialized world in
which its Internet access is generally facilitated via wireless media,
especially hand-held telephones. In January 2001, national comparative Internet
access survey has calculated the percentage of a given country's population
that have Internet access around the world.
Surprisingly, Japan
did not even make them as top 10 among all the countries. Percentage of
individuals using internet in early 2000s is about only 29.9%. However,
according to Statista website, the percentage keep increasing year by year
until 2017.
In mid 2000s,
there are between 25,000 and 30,000 new subscribers per day were signing up to
the various wireless services offered by leading Japanese telecommunications
companies. This pace continued at a break-neck speed through 2001.
According to
Hiromi Abe, an analyst at Morgan Stanley in Tokyo, 82.4 percent of subscribers
to NTT DoCoMo i-Mode service cited e-mail as the major reason why they used the
service. Added with the “availability of Internet content which has been the reason
for purchasing i-Mode service” cited by 28 percent of users and the relative
utility of having both a cellular telephone and Internet access device bundled
into one package and the roots of i-Mode success become clear.
Though PC
ownership, by global standards remained low in Japan, the substitution of PCs
for handheld wireless access devices meant that Japan could finally catch up. This
is because of PCs being the primary means by which users in North America
access the Internet. By mid-2000, Yoshiko Motoyama estimated that Japan was two
years behind the United States in the development of the Internet, but was
expected to see convergence within the next couple of years.
REFERENCES
Animations [Digital image]. (2018). Retrieved from
November 5, 2018, from
Delamar, R.F. (2002).
Competition and the Development of the internet in Japan. First
i-mode
advertisement on the London Underground [Digital image]. (n.d.). Retrieved
Statista (2018). Percentage
of population using the internet in Japan from 2000 to 2017.
The Growth of Internet in Japan (2000s)
The growth of
Internet access in Japan has mirrored the rest of the industrialized world in
which its Internet access is generally facilitated via wireless media,
especially hand-held telephones. In January 2001, national comparative Internet
access survey has calculated the percentage of a given country's population
that have Internet access around the world.
Surprisingly, Japan
did not even make them as top 10 among all the countries. Percentage of
individuals using internet in early 2000s is about only 29.9%. However,
according to Statista website, the percentage keep increasing year by year
until 2017.
In mid 2000s,
there are between 25,000 and 30,000 new subscribers per day were signing up to
the various wireless services offered by leading Japanese telecommunications
companies. This pace continued at a break-neck speed through 2001.
According to
Hiromi Abe, an analyst at Morgan Stanley in Tokyo, 82.4 percent of subscribers
to NTT DoCoMo i-Mode service cited e-mail as the major reason why they used the
service. Added with the “availability of Internet content which has been the reason
for purchasing i-Mode service” cited by 28 percent of users and the relative
utility of having both a cellular telephone and Internet access device bundled
into one package and the roots of i-Mode success become clear.
Though PC
ownership, by global standards remained low in Japan, the substitution of PCs
for handheld wireless access devices meant that Japan could finally catch up. This
is because of PCs being the primary means by which users in North America
access the Internet. By mid-2000, Yoshiko Motoyama estimated that Japan was two
years behind the United States in the development of the Internet, but was
expected to see convergence within the next couple of years.
REFERENCES
Animations [Digital image]. (2018). Retrieved from
November 5, 2018, from
Delamar, R.F. (2002).
Competition and the Development of the internet in Japan. First
i-mode
advertisement on the London Underground [Digital image]. (n.d.). Retrieved
Statista (2018). Percentage
of population using the internet in Japan from 2000 to 2017.
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