Providing nationwide deployment of broadband services has become an important national agenda. The U.S. announced a National Broadband Plan and EU a Digital Agenda for Europe, both of which aim at providing access to 100 Mbps broadband services by 2020 to substantial numbers of households. The...

Deployment of broadband, particularly, FTTx, is now one of major policy objectives in many countries, including Japan, Korea, and the U.S., for example. The U.S. announced a National Broadband Plan which aimed at providing 100 million households with access to 100 Mbps broadband services by...

The Japanese mobile market has recently shown a remarkable growth in the last decade, with more than 106.2 million 3G (3rd Generation, or W-CDMA) subscribers and 4.4 million 2G (2nd Generation, or PDC) as of December 2009. This paper attempts to analyze factors promoting Japanese mobile phone,...

Japan has taken a worldwide lead in FTTH, with 15 million subscribers at the end of 2008. Japan has been the first country to experience this transformation. This paper analyzes the factors facilitating Japanese FTTH. Factors promoting Japanese broadband can be summarized as follows: (1)...

Broadband service showed a remarkable increase in Japan after 2000, with ADSL representing more than 14.5 million subscribers in 2006. Recently, Japan has taken a worldwide lead in FTTH, with 11.3 million subscribers at the end of December 2007. Japan has been the first country to experience...