I-mode Felica

News.com has a nice article precising NTT DoCoMo’s new mobile-wallet service called “I-mode Felica”. Operators in advanced mobile markets like Japan are looking at these kind of VAS to not only increase ARPUs but also stickiness / lockin of their subscribers.
“DoCoMo is moving to a post-I-mode business model based on Felica.” -Yasushi Yoshikawa, general manager, [...]

Mobile Gaming Market

This article on Indian gaming market estimates the mobile gaming market size to be around US$3 million in 2004. On an average 2,00,000 games were downloaded via the GSM/GPRS operators - Airtel, Hutch, Idea, and BPL.

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