J-Phone was a great company that was able to meet the demands of Japan's insular mobile market and they had some good phones, too. I remember J-Phone being a really good company while I was living over in Japan.
When they switched to Vodafone, they really messed up by trying European ideas in a market where the language has no equivalent of the V sound...Japanese couldn't even SAY "Vodafone" correctly, why would they bother with a company whose phones are just copies of Europhones with blocky styling?
AU runs on the strength of its ultra-fast communication network and unique phones and DoCoMo is like Cingular in that it has the best signal coverage and 3G services available. Vodafone offered nothing that Au or NTT couldn't do better and Vodafone's prices were not competitive enough to make up the difference.
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J-Phone was a great company that was able to meet the demands of Japan's insular mobile market and they had some good phones, too. I remember J-Phone being a really good company while I was living over in Japan.
When they switched to Vodafone, they really messed up by trying European ideas in a market where the language has no equivalent of the V sound...Japanese couldn't even SAY "Vodafone" correctly, why would they bother with a company whose phones are just copies of Europhones with blocky styling?
AU runs on the strength of its ultra-fast communication network and unique phones and DoCoMo is like Cingular in that it has the best signal coverage and 3G services available. Vodafone offered nothing that Au or NTT couldn't do better and Vodafone's prices were not competitive enough to make up the difference.