infoPLANT Releases Survey Result on Mobile Phone Use.Tokyo Tokyo (tō`kēō), city (1990 pop. 8,163,573), capital of Japan and of Tokyo prefecture, E central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay. , Japan, Oct 5, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - Online market researcher infoPLANT conducted research regarding mobile phone use among 16,833 phone users (operators limited to NTT DoCoMo (NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc., Japan) Founded in 1991, NTT DoCoMo is a spinoff of Japan's NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) which provides wireless services, including cellular, paging, satellite and maritime and in-flight telephone services. , au, vodafone) from September 6 to 13, 2005. When asked how often they access Websites via mobile phones, 73.8% of the respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. answered "almost everyday", followed by "a few days a week (10.9%)", "four to five days a week (10.4%)", and "about one day a week (3.1%)". More than 70% men and women of every age group except men aged 50 or older and women aged 40 or older replied "almost everyday". When asked about if they use flat-rate packet service, 58.0% said they use service on the service-compatible handsets, while 12.3% answered they want to use the service although not using now the service on their service-compatible phones, and 20.8% replied they want to use the service although their phones do not support it, making the group that shows intention to use the service comprise 30% of the total. On the other hand, the group suggesting they would not use the service occupies less than 10%. Furthermore, 81.5% of the service users replied they access the Web over their phones almost everyday, compared to 57.5% among non-service users. When asked about how they use online applications on their phone after subscribing to the flat-rate packet service, 87.4% of the users replied they access the Websites more frequently, followed by 60.0% saying that they visit the sites longer, 45.6% that they download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. more applications, and 36.9% that they emails more often. Source: JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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