Very interesting information with regard to the NTT Docomo I-mode wireless internet service... The adoption rate of this service has been overwhelming.... as many of you may know. The really eyepopping nature of accelerating subscriber rate is unreal over the past year....
Find the following brief background as well as a couple of recent articles updating the adoption rate...
NTT Docomo has approximately 36 Million cellular phone customers... I-mode wireless internet service was launched in February 1999... nearly 2 years ago. Current subscribers number approximately 17,000,000.... FROM ZERO 2 years ago... That would mean that they have connected nearly 50% of their voice customers to the I-mode internet service...
Note that the the CURRENT subscriber rate is well over 1,500,000 people PER month...
nttdocomo.com
TOKYO, JAPAN, May 27,1999 --- The convenience and simplicity of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service, which enables users to access Internet services via their cellular telephones, has proven to be a major hit among consumers, according to the results of a survey compiled recently by DoCoMo.
The number of i-mode customers exceeded 220,000 as of May 23, just some three months after the service had been launched on February 22. DoCoMo, the world's largest mobile telecommunications operator, expects its i-mode customer base to continue growing at an accelerated pace, to possibly as many as three million by the end of the fiscal year in March 2000.
nttdocomo.com
TOKYO, JAPAN, March 17, 2000 -- NTT DoCoMo today announced that on March 15 it registered the five millionth subscriber to its i-mode service, which provides direct access to the Internet via cellular phones.
DoCoMo launched the i-mode service just 13 months ago. It previously forecasted that subscribers would total about 4.8 million users by the end of March, so i-mode's popularity has exceeded even DoCoMo's high expectations.
nttdocomo.com
TOKYO, JAPAN, August 7, 2000---The number of subscribers to NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service topped 10 million on August 6, 2000. The service was launched 532 days ago on February 22, 1999. Currently, 591 companies are providing information services through i-mode. This is a nine-fold increase from the 67 firms that were signed on with the service at the time of its launch. In addition, there are about 1,000 official i-mode Web sites, along with another 18,700 independent sites, according to OH! NEW i-search, an i-mode search engine.
i-mode subscriptions have progressed as follows:
February 22, 1999Service launchedAugust 8, 1999Exceed 1 million
October 18, 1999Exceed 2 million
December 23, 1999Exceed 3 million
February 12, 2000Exceed 4 million
March 15, 2000Exceed 5 million
April 15, 2000Exceed 6 million
May 26, 2000Exceed 7 million
June 24, 2000Exceed 8 million
July 15, 2000Exceed 9 million
August 6, 2000Exceed 10 million |
