ISDN in Japan: Actors, status and expectations

Peter van der Staal, Volker Grassmuck and Keiko Hatta

Telecommunications Policy, 1995, vol. 19, issue 7, 531-544

Abstract: This article is concerned with the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) in Japan. It sketches the actors involved in ISDN networks and services and gives an account of their history, current status and realistic expectations. ISDN is developing steadily in Japan but at a pace that is confounding high initial expectations. The main impeding factors are the high investments with uncertain returns demanded from the privatized telecommunications industry, low interconnectivity and high prices of equipment, and competition from other technologies, media and services. ISDN is no longer considered as a goal in itself, but as a step to a fully digital multimedia infrastructure.

Date: 1995
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