TOKYO-KDDI Corp. signed up more subscribers than its Japanese rivals during November, according to statistics from the Telecommunications Carriers Association in Japan.
KDDI added 239,3000 cellular users compared with 63,800 new NTT DoCoMo Inc. customers and 35,500 Vodafone K.K. new subscribers. KDDI also outpaced its rivals in new third-generation subscribers, signing up 509,400 CDMA2000 1x users compared with 289,3000 W-CDMA subscribers by NTT DoCoMo and just 4,600 W-CDMA new customers for Vodafone K.K.
KDDI also added more wireless Internet subscribers than its competitors, adding 248,500 EZWeb customers during November. NTT DoCoMo added 128,800 i-mode subscribers, and Vodafone added 35,200 new Vodafone Live! customers.
However, DoCoMo is still the market leader with 45.251 million total subscribers, followed by KDDI with 15.687 million and Vodafone with 14.659 million. But KDDI has 11.17 million 1x subscribers compared with nearly 1.63 million W-CDMA subscribers for DoCoMo. Vodafone has 93,200 3G subscribers.
