Number of Wireless Websites in Japan
i-mode initiated its operation in February 1999.
In this respect, there were 1620 official Japanese websites in 2001, and 41093 non-official websites; as of mid 2005, the figure of wireless official websites reached 4,635 and non-official websites got 87372, with the total websites number of over 92000. At present, the number of Japanese wireless websites still keeps a steady growth.
With rapid growth of Mobile TV industry, the main networks are very likely to be combined, which may bring about remarkably change within the value chain. It can be specified as:
