Mobile phone shipments drop 58% in Japan

You don’t have to look far to find signs of the poor economic climate.  The global climate is as bad as it’s been in a very long time and it seems each day we hear another indication that points to how bad it really is.  Forbes has reported that mobile phone sales are down 58% in Japan, a staggering decrease in phone shipments.  Japan is typically one of the hottest markets globally and this decrease is staggering.  This huge drop in phone shipments makes the recent Nokia decision to pull out of Japan understandable.

We often complain in the US about the business model we have to live with where carriers subsidize the phones in exchange for long contracts.  We might want to think twice about that according to Forbes based on what experts blame for the Japanese phone slump:

The figures underscore the deepening slump in Japan’s mobile phonemarket following the industry-wide introduction of a new business modelunder which carriers charge more for handsets in return for lowercalling fees.

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