2008 Asia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Japan

1. Key Statistics

2. Telecommunications Market

• 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