Japanese operators add 487,000 mobile subsJapan ended June with a total of 98.06 million mobile users, up from 97.58 at end-May. NTT DoCoMo added 88,800 new subscribers in June, of which 54,000 were 2in1 subscribers. The company ended the month with a total of 52.86 million mobile users, which includes 66,800 2in1 subscribers. Rival KDDI ended the month with a total of 28.71 million customers, comprising 28.11 au users and 599,700 TU-KA subscribers. For the au service the operator signed-up 207,700 new customers and the TU-KA service shed 74,500 subscribers. Softbank Mobile attracted 204,800 new subscribers ending June with 16.44 million customers. Newcomer eMobile ended the month with 60,200 subscribers.
Of NTT DoCoMo’s net adds in June, 745,300 chose the company’s WCDMA services which brings DoCoMo’s WCDMA base to a total of 37.85 million. Softbank Mobile added 527,100 WCDMA customers and ended the month with a total of 9.22 million. KDDI’s au service includes 27.56 million CDMA 1X customers, after adding 222,000 new CDMA 1X subscribers during the month. eMobile’s customer base consists entirely of WCDMA subscribers.
TT DoCoMo further added 58,700 i-mode customers in June to bring its total to 47.73 million. Rival KDDI added 137,100 EZweb customers to reach a total of 24.09 million, and Softbank Mobile’s Yahoo! Keitai user base rose to 13.84 million after adding 222,400 new users.
The number of PHS customers in Japan fell to 5.02 million at the end of May, down by 6,400 as NTT DoCoMo shed 28,400 PHS subscribers. NTT DoCoMo plans to terminate its PSH service in 2008 and currently has 374,000 PHS users. Willcom, however, added 22,000 new customers to reach a total of 4.65 million.
