Japan: Lessons In Growth

Flat-rate data pricing, snazzy phones and an insatiable consumer appetite for high-tech services, are all contributing to Japan’s mobile internet boom…a very good story explaining the story in Japan.
A professor at Hitotsubashi University, Prof. Jeffrey Funk, is writing in a book on the subject, “Mobile Disruption”, and has used the concepts of “disruptive technology” and “network effects” to understand the Japanese mobile internet wave.
His paper on NTT DoCoMo’s disruptive effect can be downloaded here (PDF file)…other papers on the Japanese market can be found on his personal home page

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