A forerunner of the mobile Internet, i-mode is fading in Europe

I-mode was praised for featuring cutting-edge software and services from the mobile operator NTT DoCoMo and for putting the Internet into the hands of more than 30 million customers in Japan.

But on Tuesday, the British unit of O2 said it would phase out its i-mode service - used by only 250,000 consumers in Britain - by mid-2009. IHT reports.

"A forerunner of the mobile Internet, i-mode is fading in Europe, market participants and experts say. I-mode, which still has nearly 50 million Japanese subscribers, was unable to attract even eight million users in all of its 17 franchises outside Japan."

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