Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
EuroTechnology offers the following analysis: “iPhone's main competitors in Japan will be SHARP and KDDI's design series, at least for the forseeable future - an entirely different story than in any other country in the world... Competing in Japan will be an entirely different story for the iPhone.”
“Japan's cell phone is entirely different than anywhere else in the world - recently some people including Japanese Government officials have used the nickname "Galapagos islands" for Japan's insular and very advanced cellphone market.”
“Indeed, our company in a project for the European Union Government documented in details how Japan's cellphone services are 3-5 years ahead of Europe's, i.e. a large range of cellphone services common in Japan have not yet been introduced in Europe.”
“For this reason, while the current 2G iPhone is at the high priced top-end in the US or in Europe, in Japan the 2G iPhone does not even work, because Japan has no GSM and essentially has not been selling any 2G phones any longer for a couple of years now. Many mobile services, which Japanese phone users have become accustomed to, are missing from the current 2G iPhone.”
“Japan therefore will be a benchmark, and we expect that selling the iPhone in Japan together with Japanese customer feedback will help Apple to dramatically accelerate iPhone development. Competing in Japan will make the iPhone stronger we believe.”
6 more sleeps to go before the 3G iPhone is unveiled. With so much seemingly already known about the 3G iPhone, Steve Jobs must be keeping one heck of a surprise up his sleeve for his “one more thing”!
David Bass
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