Articles tagged with: Softbank and Emobile

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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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

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W-CDMA Close to Becoming Japan's Dominant Mobile Tech

After leading the net additions race in Japan in May, softbank Mobile has pulled even further in front in June, claiming very nearly half of all the net new connections made in the month. Of the 415k new customers, softbank accounted for 206k, whilst the larger DoCoMo and KDDI registered just 209k between them. The result was a proportionate growth rate of 3.34% for softbank Mobile in the second quarter, which was well above the overall uplift in the market of 1.32% over the three months. This gave Japan's smallest operator a welcome boost to its market share position of 0.32pp between March and June, taking its total to 16.77%. more

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