(keitai-l) Re: i-mode usage likely overstated

I wouldn't be surprised if many other business users, like me, have i-mode
on their phone but have to exercise some discretion to use the i-mode and
i-mail services. My company does have to pay per packet, so the usage should
be directly related (ie. i-mail to colleague, changing flight times, testing
the company's i-mode page, etc.) or peripherally related (ie. financial
news, brief email to spouse, etc.) to the business. Given this constraint,
voice is the most common.

I realize that such a corporate market is not the largest for i-mode, but I
cannot believe it is insignificant either. I am surprised that the numbers
below are not higher, but it depends on the wording of the survey. If I have
used the online content only once, then I guess I have to say I use i-mode
for that purpose.

Regards


---
  Gregory Tucker
  Tokyo, Japan
  mailto:tuckerg@acm.org

  These opinions are my own.

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> [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of Jonathan Shore
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 12:54 PM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) i-mode usage likely overstated
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> Not sure if you've seen this - Tim Clark's internet report of Jan
> 30th has a
> section entitled:  "Internet-enabled mobile phone user numbers
> overstated".
> Not sure if I can repost it here (can be found on tkai.com) so
> I'll provide
> a summary.
>
> Basic summary:
>
>     - yomiuri shimbun survey 40% of users don't use their phones to access
> internet
>     - 26% of i-mode subscribers don't use phones for online
> content or email
>     - i-mode penetration much higher because of "default" bundling with
> phone handsets
>
> Would be interesting to know how many of the 17M use i-mode content sites
> regularly.  Certainly voice and email are the biggest apps, but how big is
> i-mode content relative to the subscriber numbers.
>
> ---
> Jonathan Shore
> E-Publishing Group K.K.
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