Mobile phone industry in Japan other email services have also introduced "emoji" that can be sent and received from mobile handsets as well as computers. Mobile phone industry in Japan The Japanese mobile phone industry is one of the most advanced in the world. As of July 31, 2013 there were 139,180,300 mobile phones in use in Japan. This is 110 percent of Japan's total population according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. In Japanese, are often referred to as simply or for short. There are four cellular service operators in Japan. Willcom is the last PHS Personal Handy-phone System service operator. DoCoMo
Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access (FOMA) is the brand name of the W-CDMA-based 3G telecommunications services being offered by the Japanese telecommunications service provider NTT DoCoMo. It is an implementation of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) and was the world's first 3G service to commence operation. NTT DoCoMo also offers HSPA services branded FOMA High-Speed (FOMAハイスピード), which offers downlink speeds up to 7.2 Mbit/s and uplink speeds up to 5.7 Mbit/s. NTT DoCoMo developed the W-CDMA air interface, which is a form of DS-CDMA (Direct Sequence CDMA), in the late 1990s. It was later