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In CommunicAsia 2009: Making Mobile TV Work

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

It is more than one motnh ago that I was in CommunicAsia  for a Mobile TV panel. Here are the main points we discussed about how to make the business case for Mobile TV work. Free-to-Air channels are a must … Continue reading →

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Japan: Mobile Phones and Fashion

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Each season Mobile Operators in Japan present their new handsets, often developed in exclusive by Japanese vendors as Hitachi, Sanyo, Panasonic or Kyocera. See these articles with details on the latest models announced by KDDI and Softbank: KDDI spring’08 phones and … Continue reading →

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KDDI LISMO: Best Mobile Music Service in the World

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Few people are aware about the huge success that KDDI, #2 mobile operator in Japan, has achieved in selling music to mobile phones. LISMO is the name of the music service available to KDDI au subscribers, that offers song downloads … Continue reading →

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Will iPhone succeed in Japan?

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Jose Miguel Cansado

No doubt, iPod is extremely successful in Japan, being one of the top selling iTunes stores. When iTunes Japan opened in August 2005, it sold one million songs in four days!! No wonder why the price of iPod in Japan … Continue reading →

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Japanese ebooks on mobile handsets

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Jose Miguel Cansado

TechCrunch reported a few days ago the success of “mobile phone ebooks” in Japan. See article I often fly to Tokyo for work. People there commute mainly on train. Japan has the best railway system in the world. Trains are … Continue reading →

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Japan, Globalization and Telecoms

Posted on December 8, 2007 by Jose Miguel Cansado

I have been in Tokyo this week, almost 2 years after I spent a few months living there. The Telecom market has evolved specially in mobile, with eMobile as a new 3G player and with Vodafone, unable to cope with … Continue reading →

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