posted 13 March 2003 10:02 PM
Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. found in their recent broadband survey that 54.9 % of 1092 companies responded
to the survey said that they are interested in using IP videoconferencing if the cost is low and inexpensive enough. The question was"What application would you like to use for broadband?74% of 1092 companies responded to the survey was a company with 999 employees or fewer number.
10% from construction, 34% from manufacturing, 4.9% from insurance and finance, 17.6% from retails or whole sales etc..
Broadband users (ADSL,FTTH,Cable) number in Japan is around 8.8 million or more as of the end of February last month.
Still ADSL(1.5M,8M,12M) shows strong growth and the month of February gained new 470,000 subscribers reaching the level of 6.58 million.
FTTH(10Mbps/100Mbps)is around 230,000, Cable is around 2 million.(as for these FTTH and cable, the numbers are as of January 31)
Japan's economic growth for the past 10 years has been around 1% on average with 10% growth in household income(4% economic growth in 80s on average), and said to be in a terrible state with heavy amount of bad loans, but broadband business is going very strong.
We see some companies are using ADSL as they can get 3Mbps downstream with 700kbps upstream for example, enough for 384kbps IP video if they are subscribed to one of these ADSL services(also depending on your location from the Central Office).
keis
This message has been edited by Keisuke Hashimoto on 14 March 2003
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