Japan passes 100 million mobile phone subscriber mark

According to eMarketer, Japan just passed the 100 million subscriber mark for mobile phone users. In addition, 70% of the Japanese population or 89 million people are connected to the Internet. Exclusing Internet and PDA users, comScore Networks estimates this at nearly 54 million.

eMarketer believes that the country's progress in the mobile market arena makes it a model to benchmark with for converged media developments.