Vodafone Japan Mobile Phone Users Up Net 125,200 Oct-Dec"

TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- The Japanese unit of UK mobile phone firm Vodafone Group said Tuesday it added a net 125,200 subscribers to its mobile phone service in the October-December quarter.

Vodafone K.K. had about 15.1 million users as of the end of December, the company said.

"Vodafone K.K. benefited from the introduction of new flat-rate tariff plans and a steady improvement in the range and quality of its third-generation handsets," the company said in a statement.

Subscribers to its third-generation cellular phone service rose a net 564,600 during the quarter to about 2.3 million.

-By Natsuo Nishio, Dow Jones Newswires; 813-5255-2929;natsuo.nishio@dowjones.com

-Edited by Tomoko Hosaka

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Posted to the site on 24th January 2006