2008 Asia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Japan

• Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
• Facts, figures and statistics;
• Industry and regulatory issues;
• Infrastructure;
• Major Players, Revenues, Subscribers, ARPU;
• Internet, VoIP, IPTV;
• Mobile Voice and Data Markets;
• Broadband (FttH, DSL, cable TV, wireless);
• Convergence and Digital Media.

1. Key Statistics

2.1 Overview of Japan’s telecom market

2.2 Fixed-line and mobile phones in Japan

2.3 Internet, broadband and wireless Internet in Japan

2.3.1 Japan Internet Providers’ Association (JAIPA)

2.4 Television broadcasting in Japan

2.5 Telecommunications carriers

3. Regulatory Environment

3.1 Major stages of reform

3.2 The MPHPT / MIC

3.3 Telephone numbering plan

3.4 Mobile Number Portability (MNP)

3.5 Interconnection arrangements

3.5.1 Fixed-mobile interconnection

3.6 History of regulatory developments

3.6.1 Telecommunications Business Law of 1985

3.6.2 Years 1992 - 1999

3.6.3 Year 2000

3.6.4 Year 2001

3.6.5 Year 2002

3.6.6 Year 2003

3.6.7 Year 2004

3.6.8 Year 2005

3.6.9 Year 2006

3.6.10 Year 2007

4. Fixed Network Market

4.1 Market overview

4.1.1 Dialing parity

4.1.2 Analysis of Local Loop Unbundling (LLU)

4.2 Domestic services

4.2.1 Planned discontinuation of domestic fixed-line telephony in Japan

4.2.2 Local calls

4.2.3 National long-distance calls

4.2.4 International calls

5. Major Operators

5.1 Operating environment

5.1.1 Regulatory environment

5.2 Overview of major operators

5.2.1 NTT Corporation

5.2.2 KDDI Corporation

5.2.3 Softbank Corporation

6. Telecommunications Infrastructure

6.1 Overview of infrastructure developments in Japan

6.1.1 The push to develop Next Generation Network (NGN) standards

6.1.2 Opening up the last mile

6.2 Regulatory issues

6.2.1 Policy on national information superhighway

6.2.2 Government’s IT Basic Strategy

6.2.3 Government plan for ubiquitous networks

6.3 Major national infrastructure players

6.3.1 Crosswave Communications

6.3.2 KDDI Corp

6.3.3 NTT Corp

6.3.4 Softbank

6.3.5 Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) and Kansai Electric Power (KEPCO)

6.3.6 Willcom (formerly DDI Pocket)

6.3.7 Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ)

6.3.8 Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM)

6.3.9 China Network Communications

6.4 Broadband networks

6.5 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)

6.5.1 Market overview

6.5.2 Development patterns

6.5.3 Fibre-to-the-Curb (FttC)

6.6 IPv6

6.7 International submarine cable infrastructure

6.7.1 Overview

6.8 Satellite infrastructure

6.8.1 Overview

6.8.2 Plans for powerful broadband satellite for 2015

6.8.3 Japanese satellite provides Internet access at 1.2Gb/s

6.8.4 Global Multimedia Mobile Satellite Communications (GMMSC)

6.8.5 Inmarsat

6.8.6 Asia Pacific Mobile Telecommunications (APMT)

6.8.7 Japan’s Space Development Plan

6.8.8 Major satellite operators

6.9 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

6.9.1 Overview

6.9.2 Major VoIP providers

6.9.3 Regulatory environment for IP telephony

7. Broadband Market

7.1 Overview

7.1.1 Mega Consortium / Broadband Consortium Japan (BB Japan)

7.1.2 Impact of broadband on voice market

7.2 Cable modems

7.2.1 Market overview

7.2.2 Regulatory issues

7.3 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)

7.3.1 Market overview

7.3.2 Major DSL providers

7.4 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH)

7.4.1 Market overview

7.4.2 Major FttH players

7.5 Broadband over powerline (BPL) / powerline communications (PLC)

7.6 Wireless broadband

7.6.1 Wireless LAN (WLAN)

7.6.2 Major WLAN providers

7.6.3 World Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX)

7.6.4 Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN)

7.6.5 Ultra Wideband (UWB)

7.6.6 Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS)

7.6.7 Broadband Internet via satellite

7.7 Global LAN Ethernet

8. Convergence

8.1 Overview of media convergence

8.2 Triple play models

8.3 Digital TV

8.3.1 Overview

8.3.2 Broadband TV

8.3.3 Cable TV (CATV)

8.3.4 Satellite TV

8.3.5 Digital Terrestrial TV (DTTV)

8.4 E-Services

8.4.1 Overview

8.4.2 E-commerce

8.4.3 E-Cash

8.4.4 E-Banking

8.4.5 Online trading

8.4.6 E-Government

8.4.7 E-Entertainment

9. Mobile Communications

9.1 Overview of Japan’s mobile market

9.1.1 Background

9.1.2 Mobile statistics

9.1.3 Market developments

9.1.4 New entrants into the mobile market

9.1.5 IP mobile telephony to hit the Japanese market around 2008

9.2 Mobile technologies

9.2.1 PDC

9.2.2 CDMA

9.2.3 PHS

9.2.4 Third Generation (3G) mobile

9.2.5 Fourth Generation (4G) mobile

9.2.6 Mobile handset market

9.3 Major mobile operators

9.3.1 Brief company descriptions

9.4 Mobile services

9.4.1 Overview

9.4.2 Mobile Enterprise Alliance Japan

9.5 Mobile voice services

9.5.1 Prepaid cards

9.5.2 Mobile satellite services (MSS)

9.6 Mobile data services

9.6.1 Analysis - mobile data market

9.6.2 Mobile Internet

9.6.3 Short Message Service (SMS)

9.6.4 Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)

9.6.5 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)

9.6.6 Push-to-Talk (PTT)

9.6.7 BlackBerry

9.7 Mobile content and applications

9.7.1 Content for mobile market

9.7.2 Global Positioning System (GPS)

9.7.3 M-commerce / m-cash

9.7.4 Mobile gaming

9.7.5 Mobile conferencing

9.7.6 Mobile videoconferencing / mobile video

9.7.7 Mobile TV and radio

9.7.8 Mobile ringtone and music downloads

9.7.9 QR code readers

9.7.10 Mobile books

9.7.11 Mobile Applications

10. Glossary of Abbreviations

Table 1 - Country statistics Japan - 2008

Table 2 - Telecom revenue and investment statistics - 2006

Table 3 - Telephone network statistics - September 2007

Table 4 - Internet user statistics - December 2007

Table 5 - Broadband statistics - September 2007

Table 6 - Mobile statistics - December 2007

Table 7 - National telecommunications authorities

Table 8 - Subscribers and penetration: fixed-line versus mobile - 1993 - 2007

Table 9 - Internet subscribers, cable modem, DSL and FttH - 2002 - 2007

Table 10 - Number of telecommunications carriers in Japan - November 2007

Table 11 - MYLINE subscribers by category - January 2008

Table 12 - Internet, broadband, IP telephony and telecoms statistics for Japan - 2004 - 2007

Table 13 - NTT revenue, net profit, CAPEX and EBITDA - 2000 - 2008

Table 14 - NTT revenue by segment - 2004 - 2007

Table 15 - NTT subscribers and annual change - September 2007

Table 16 - Operating revenue - 2000 - 2007

Table 17 - NTT DoCoMo subscribers - January 2008

Table 18 - NTT DoCoMo operating revenue and annual change - 1996 - 2007

Table 19 - NTT DoCoMo ARPU, MOU, Churn - 2004 - 2007

Table 20 - NTT DoCoMo Investment in International Operators - March 2008

Table 21 - NTT Data revenue and annual change - 1995 - 2008

Table 22 - KDDI revenue and net income - 1996 - 2008

Table 23 - KDDI proportion of revenue by segment - 2001 - 2007

Table 24 - au subscribers by technology and market share - 1997 - 2007

Table 25 - KDDI ARPU, MOU and Churn - 2001 - 2007

Table 26 - TU-KA subscribers and market share - 1997 - 2007

Table 27 - ADSL and FttH subscribers - 2005 - 2008

Table 28 - Softbank revenue and operating profit - 1995 - 2007

Table 29 - Softbank proportion of revenue by segment - 2007

Table 30 - Softbank revenue, EBITDA, CAPEX - 2005 - 2007

Table 31 - Softbank operational data: millions of subscribers - 2005 - 2007

Table 32 - Softbank ARPU, MOU and Churn - 2001 - 2007

Table 33 - VoIP subscriber growth - 2003 - 2007

Table 34 - VoIP subscribers and market share by operator - September 2007

Table 35 - VoIP subscribers by number category - September 2007

Table 36 - Broadband subscriber growth - 2000 - 2007

Table 37 - Broadband subscribers and households - September 2007

Table 38 - Broadband subscribers and annual change by access type - September 2007

Table 39 - Broadband subscribers and market share by access type - September 2007

Table 40 - Cable modem broadband subscribers - 1998 - 2007

Table 41 - DSL broadband subscribers - 1999 - 2007

Table 42 - DSL subscribers and market share by operator - September 2007

Table 43 - Softbank’s broadband capacity and lines in service - 2002 - 2006

Table 44 - FttH broadband subscribers - 2002 - 2007

Table 45 - FttH subscribers and market share by operator - 2007

Table 46 - ‘New type’ WAN - subscribers - 2002 - 2007

Table 47 - ‘New type’ WAN Services Subscriptions - September 2007

Table 48 - FWA subscribers - 2002 - 2007

Table 49 - Softbank and the world’s leading IPTV operators’ subscribers - 2006

Table 50 - Cable TV subscribers - 2002 - 2007

Table 51 - Cable TV operators - 1998 - 2007

Table 52 - J-COM subscribers by service - 2000 - 2008

Table 53 - BS and CS subscribers - 2003 - 2007

Table 54 - Number of satellite broadcasters - 2003 - 2006

Table 55 - SKY PerfecTV! subscribers - 1998 - 2007

Table 56 - Mobile subscribers - 1995 - 2008

Table 57 - Mobile subscribers by system - 2008

Table 58 - cdmaOne subscribers - 1999 - 2008

Table 59 - CDMA2000 1x subscribers - 2002 - 2008

Table 60 - WCDMA subscribers - 2003 - 2008

Table 61 - PHS subscribers by carrier - 2004 - 2008

Table 62 - PHS subscribers - 1995 - 2008

Table 63 - 3G mobile subscribers by operator - January 2008

Table 64 - NTT DoCoMo’s WCDMA subscribers - 2001 - 2008

Table 65 - Mobile operators, technology and subscribers - January 2008

Table 66 - Prepaid mobile subscribers - January 2008

Table 67 - Mobile wireless Internet subscribers by providers - January 2008

Table 68 - Mobile wireless Internet subscriber growth - 2000 - 2008

Exhibit 1 - Major members of MYLINE Carriers Association - January 2008

Exhibit 2 - Significant telecoms operators in Japan

Exhibit 3 - NTT Group structure - January 2008

Exhibit 4 - Softbank operations

Exhibit 5 - Major global/regional submarine cables with landing point in Japan - 2006

Exhibit 6 - Types of telecom convergence

Exhibit 7 - Japanese satellite TV - overview of broadcasters