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Articles tagged with: Docomo and Softbank
Softbank still leading Japanese market for annual net additions
The total Japanese customer base was up 0.37m in August to 109.27m. Annual growth stood at 4.6%, down from 5.6% a year earlier. more
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Japanese Operators Planning $10 Billion Spend on LTE Upgrades
The four Japanese mobile phone networks are expected to collectively spend one trillion yes (US$10 billion) over the next five years on so-called 3.9G based network upgrades, reported Bloomberg News, citing the local Nikkei newspaper. more
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Nokia to Stop Selling Mobile Phones in Japan
Nokia has announced that it is to withdraw from the Japanese market - citing a miserly market share of just one percent as the reason. The company's luxury phone subsidiary, Vertu will continue to sell in the country though - and has been reported to be considering setting up a Vertu MVNO. more
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Nokia Looking to Set up its Own MVNO in Japan
Nokia is reportedly considering another move into the network operator's own territory by launching an MVNO of its own in Japan. The company has already been busy pushing its mobile content platform, Ovi - to the ire of some network operators. more
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121 Million Mobile Users in Japan by 2011
A new report from the ROA Group says that the number of mobile users in Japan will increase to 121 million by 2011 and the penetration rate in the Japanese market will grow to 95.4% by 2011. more
Related Tags: wimax, mobile-wimax, lte, kddi, long-term-evolution, Japan
Asia-Pacific CDMA Growth Slows to an All-Time Low
GSM continues to increase its dominance of the Asia Pacific market. Of the 99m new connections made in the quarter, only 13m chose any other standard and of those, 11.3m went for the GSM-enhancement, W-CDMA. Nearly 80% of all customers in the region now use GSM - 1.232bn out of 1.545bn - with CDMA the only other real contender. At the end of June, there were 191.3m customers connected to the various forms of this standard slightly up on the 189.4m at the end of March. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, w-cdma, cdma, lg, ev-do
3G now Almost Four-Fifths of Japan's Subscriber Base
SoftbankÃ's run of market-leading performances for monthly net additions has reached an astounding 16 months, with August the fourth month in a row in which it was the only operator to record a six-figure gain. It did not quite match the level of dominance achieved in June and July, when it took more than half of the total net additions in the market, but the August share of 42.2% was nonetheless impressive. In real terms, SoftbankÃ's monthly gain was 163.6k, which took its total subscriber base to 19.49m. more
Related Tags: w-cdma, emobile, kddi, cdma2000-1x, cdma2000, ev-do, Japan
700 Million Mobile Phones to be NFC Enabled Within 5 Years
A new analysis of the NFC mobile payments opportunity forecasts that 700 million mobile subscribers globally will have phones equipped with NFC contactless technology by 2013. NFC will enable users to make payments with their mobile phones for relatively low value purchases (such as refreshments, tickets and food). more
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NTT DoCoMo: Have Not Given Up On Possible iPhone Offer
BANGKOK -(Dow Jones)- NTT docomo, Japan's dominant mobile operator, has not given up the possibility of offering Apple's iPhone in Japan, an executive said Wednesday. more
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IN DEPTH: Chinese growth dips as India marches on
China, India, Pakistan, Japan and South Korea are amongst the largest markets in Asia and The Mobile World holds monthly data for all five. At the end of July, the five markets had a combined total of 1.122bn mobile customers, approximately 30% of the global total. Between them they added 140.6m new connections in the first seven months of 2008 alone, and 233.8m were added in the twelve months ending 31st July 2008. more
Related Tags: w-cdma, china-mobile, telenor, seven, orascom, China