Japan's Mobile Net Users to Reach 86 Million by 2005: IDC
March 26, 2001 (TOKYO) -- International Data Corp. Japan recently announced its survey's findings on the number of Internet users in 2000 in Japan as well as the projected number of users in 2005. The report said that the number of mobile Internet users will be 86.3 million in 2005.
The survey classified the Internet usage environment into "home," "small business," "medium and large-sized business," "government-related," "education," and "mobile," and counted the number of users by each environment.
The survey attributed the largest number of users in 2000 was home users, accounting 24.1 million, followed by mobile users who use Internet-capable mobile phones, 23.4 million. Medium and large-sized business users trails after at 11 million, small business users at 3 million, education-related users at 2 million, and government-related users at 0.5 million.
IDC projects that the number of users, on the whole, will increase by 28.5 percent a year on average. Also it predicts that the rapidly growing mobile users will become the driving force of the Internet market by 2001, overtaking home users.
Broken down into each category, IDC foresees the number of mobile users to rise to 86.3 million, home users to 73 million, small business users to 20 million, medium- and large-sized business users to 37 million, education related users to 11 million, and government-related users to 3 million.
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