(keitai-l) Re: SMS vs mobile email

From: Gerhard Fasol <fasol_at_eurotechnology.com>
Date: 11/29/05
Message-ID: <438C6A17.8090708@eurotechnology.com>
Nick May wrote:
> On 29 Nov 2005, at 16:46, Gerhard Fasol wrote:
> 
>>The numbers of emails/day/person and similar basic usage
>>data in Japan are figures which every serious mobile industry
>>professional in Japan has at the back of his head.
> 
> and my - such a big one, too...

this was bad humor... sorry...
I wanted to sound funny.. but wasnt...

> Does anyone - "serious mobile industry professional" or not -  have  
> (free) figures for the number of SMS messages that ARE sent in Japan  
> on a daily basis?

On FOMA you have the choice of email or SMS.
Only DoCoMo will have all the precise figures,
I have not seen DoCoMo figures for SMS, although
DoCoMo does publish the email volume in detail,
and thats were I have the data from for our
(free) blog.

My personal guess is that the SMS volume on FOMA is
close to zero. I did not send or receive an SMS
on my FOMA phone for years. Probably most Japanese
FOMA users don't even know what this SMS in their
FOMA phone is.

> It isn't exactly un-common on JPhone/Voda - "free" has its own  
> special magic...

You can ask Vodafone about their mail statistics - maybe they
tell you.

Gerhard


> Nick
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Received on Tue Nov 29 16:47:52 2005