
The information that I could find on the web about
Sprint's new '3G' high-speed data service was a little short on solid information, so I spoke with Kevin Packingham, Senior Manager of Business Marketing for SprintPCS' new Vision service. I sought him out because Ubiquitous, affordable high speed wireless data services are something of a holy grail for tech-savvy road warriors like myself, so I received each morsel of information about Sprint's new service with great interest. Mr. Packingham spoke over the phone and he clarified many of the questions that I had about the new service.
> NTT DoCoMo is the market leader in Japan, with over 34.6
> million 2.5G i-mode users and around 140,000 3G users.
A typo that should have been "34 million 2G/2.5G i-mode users". All German and Dutch i-mode handsets however currently offer up to 115 kbps by default.
In general one can easily say Japan is very far ahead with regard to mobile communications compared to western countries.