DIALING FOR DOLLARS.

This article reports on the rapidly growing mobile-music market in Japan. Mobile phones are overwhelmingly the digital-download medium of choice for Japanese consumers and will likely remain so as new music services and bigger capacity handsets are launched during the next several months in 2006. Japan's three major telecoms, NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and Vodafone, along with such companies as Apple, Microsoft and Softbank are forging alliances and jockeying for position in the market.