Nokia pulls out of Japan
November 27, 2008
By Ken Worsley
Earlier today, the Nikkei announced that Nokia will cease shipping handsets to DoCOMo and Softbank from January 2009. Although Nokia holds a 38% share of the global mobile handset market, it’s share in Japan’s mobile market is just under 0.5%.
Developing software for the Japanese market - and DoComo’s iMode in particular - is simply costing Nokia too much money.
Yet, Reuters is reporting that Nokia intends to launch its own MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) system sometime in 2009.
This story was also picked up by blog omJapan.
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