Mobile Contents Forum (MCF) just released their 2010 report – interesting quasi-official numbers as always! http://bit.ly/IzIgpU

While this PDF is only available in Jpn.. the machine quick machine translation below is from the opening paragraph. That first chart shows mobile content and commerce results – with 16,550 Billion JPY or $20B USD – strong continued yearly growth. The other interesting point was, according to ComScore, an est. 3.9M active iPhones and 4.6M Android devices in Japan as of March 2011. [Eds]

Machine Translation

Mobile Content Forum Institute 2010 general report (from January to December) in Market survey was conducted for the relevant market content. Relevant market as mobile content, incoming a fee to deliver digital content, including sound system, game system and the market “mobile content”, That are configured in the field with three product sales system, system services, and transaction system to market “mobile commerce” Will announce the results.

According to the Telecommunications Carriers Association, the number of subscribers of mobile phone contracts 2,125 100 000 000 million at the end of June 2011, Internet-enabled mobile phone use of content that can be ten thousand of which 9,868 contracts, third-generation (3G) The mobile has 99% of the total number of contracts and contract 100000000 2,003 million. Current user of the smartphone suddenly has been expanding. Number of users for each OS is 12 2010. According to the “MobiLens” comScore data whereas at the time of the month was 2,170,000 users 3,780,000 users, is that Android iPhone, when in March 2011. At this point the increase is 120,000 3,900,000 users iPhone, an increase of 2.43 million and 4.6 million users in Android, Android in particular the user has been increasing rapidly.

This time, the market size is not included, as other market segments of mobile-related content, this including promotional campaigns, such as using mobile advertising and sweepstakes or in the pure novelty, such as advertising picture I “Advertising and Promotion mobile market”, mobile content site construction, operation and management system with a focus on the “mobile solutions market.”

Related posts:

1. D2C Annual Mobile Ad Trends Report
2. MCF Releases 2011 Japan Mobile Report
3. Japan Smartphone Research Report
4. Mobile Content Forum 2010 Awards
5. 10M Smartphones in Japan – Comscore

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