Abstract

NTT DoCoMo is Japan's biggest mobile service provider. They added extra value into cellular phone as "telephone", and contributed to the explosive spread of the mobile phone in Japan. They have still led Japan as a country with the world's largest mobile Internet. The mobile phone now changes our lifestyles or work styles, and has a great influence also on business. In 1997, NTT DoCoMo created the company vision towards the year 2010, "Mobile Frontier". It consists of five concepts, named "MAGIC", and indicates the mobile phone figure in the future as a whole. I regard it as a guideline of this paper, and examine the direction of mobile evolution by researching the following topics: the present situation, the issues needed to realize each concept, and the future. At first, I state the background of the mobile phone spread in Japan and the cultural aspects peculiar to Japan. After that, I examine the mobile evolution along with the five concepts. The objective of this paper is to refer to and understand the vision of a leading company in the telecommunication field, and consider mobile communications' influence and applications in the future. The goal is to expand knowledge in the present situation of the mobile phone and the trend towards future mobile, and to examine the direction the Mobile Frontier aims.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Enu Ti Ti Dokomo (Firm); Broadband communication equipment industry--Japan; Cell phone equipment industry--Japan; Cell phone systems--Japan; Mobile communication systems--Japan

Publication Date

2003

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Department, Program, or Center

Information Sciences and Technologies (GCCIS)

Advisor

Hartpence, Bruce

Advisor/Committee Member

Berenbaum, Alec

Comments

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works in December 2013. Physical copy available at RIT library at: HD9696.B764 K354 2003

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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