Title: Comparative Analysis of Wireless Internet Service

The Internet is unprecedented in its impact on the world community of industries, institutes, and individuals. Meanwhile, the world also became increasingly mobile. Both of the trends the success of the Internet and the growth of mobile communications created opportunity to add mobility to Internet accessibility. The convergence of wireless and the Internet is already underway. Wireless Internet is a form of data communications that allows mobile users to use their mobile handheld devices to access services and information through wireless and Internet network. Because of this definition, we excluded fixed wireless communications, satellite communications, and wireless LAN in our scope of study. Wireless Internet services are provided in some countries like Japan and the UK. Because wireless Internet service in Japan is regarded the world’s first successful case, the success of Japan relative to Europe has been covered in lots of articles [1][2]. In these articles, while Japanese case is dealt with in order to envision the future of wireless Internet service, they lack the implications for other countries. And, for the European case, many of the criticism are focused on WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) even though there may be other underlying factors that bring different outcomes between Japan and Europe. The study starts from the notion that comprehensive analysis of wireless Internet service will be helpful for the future development of wireless Internet service in many countries. The scope of the study is the wireless WAN Internet access provided in Japan and Europe because both cases are the most developed in the wireless Internet area. Finally, as a result of the study, we propose some critical success factors and implications for other countries.