IDC's Japan Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker is designed to meet clients' demand for detailed information on the domestic mobile phone market. The service provides timely and comprehensively valuable information in a variety of converge areas, from shipment condition, market trends, and technology improvements, all of which are crucial components in evaluating the market and are absolutely necessary to the decision-making process in difficult business situations. Moreover, the delivery of detailed information significantly contributes to the basic strategy and tactical planning in Japan's mobile phone market.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the technology areas and segmentations that follow. Measurement for this tracker is in shipments and factory revenue.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Smartphone
• Feature phone

Segmentations:

• Unit shipment by operator (NTTDoCoMo, auKDDI, SoftBank Mobile) and by vendor
• Air interface (CDMA, EV-DO, WCDMA, HSDPA, LTE) by operator and by vendor
• Form factor (converged or traditional) by operator and by vendor
• OS (Linux, Symbian, iOS, Windows Mobile, Android, BlackBerry, etc.) by operator and by vendor

Geographic Scope

• Japan

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated quarterly and include one year of historical data, two years of quarterly forecasts, and an additional five years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the country level. Examples of the segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:

• Unit shipment by air interface (CDMA, EV-DO, WCDMA, HSDPA, LTE)
• Unit shipment by OS (Linux, Symbian, iOS, Windows Mobile, Android, BlackBerry, etc.)

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis with tools such as pivot tables. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Historical data: Week 8–9 after period closes
• Forecast data: Week 9–10 after period closes