i-mode users outside Japan exceeded two million at the end of January 2004 and continue to grow rapidly. Services are currently available through seven i-mode operators in Belgium, Germany, Taiwan, Holland, Spain and Italy. In addition, Greece is scheduled to get i-mode prior to the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Including Japan, more than 42 million users are now using i-mode services globally.
Currently more than 1000 content providers outside Japan delivers localized content portfolios in eight languages, including content providers such as Disney and CNN.
To date, i-mode operators outside Japan deliver services using ten handsets from four handset vendors: NEC, Mitsubishi, Vitelcom, and Toshiba. Other handset vendors, such as Samsung, Siemens, Sagem and Panasonic are scheduled to release new i-mode handsets in Europe and Asia during 2004.
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