For those of you who are interested, I pulled up some figures on Internet
usage in Japan from some Japanese whitepapers last week - talking about
traditional access here - not mobile internet access.
Here are the figures (feb 2000)
2.6 million hosts
19.3 million users
Which makes 14.1 percent of the population. Making Japan number 6 for
percentage of the population using the Internet in the Asia-Pacific region.
For Internet population using the Internet no.2, after the states.
Country Population Percentage
Australia 31.7
Singapore 28.7
Hong Kong 26.7
New Zealand 26.4
Taiwan 18.1
Japan 14.1
Korea 8.0
Malaysia 3.8
Thailand 1.6
Source: Japan Internet Whitepaper Proceedings, 2000
Cheers
stu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jani PATOKALLIO" <jpatokal@iki.fi>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:23 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Frustration makes way for...
> Victor Pikula wrote:
> > http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2677504,00.html
> >
> > Just a small quote:
> > "... What's going to change between now and 2004 that will make this
> > different? The Docomo phone?"
>
> And there's more!
>
> "The fact is, all conceptual arguments regarding using the
> cell phone as an access device are based on the
> popularity of such phones in Japan, where there is very
> little personal computer usage."
>
> Very little indeed!
[excessive quoting removed]
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Received on Tue Jan 30 16:43:52 2001