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Users of Cell Phones, PHS Systems Top 50 Million Mark in Japan
August 19, 1999 (TOKYO)
The total number of subscribers of cellular phones and personal handyphone system phones in Japan exceeded 50 million as of the end of July
1999.
This total breaks down to 44,808,000 cellular phone subscribers and 5,710,000 PHS subscribers.
By provider's share for the month of July 1999, NTT Mobile
Communications Network Inc. (NTT DoCoMo) increased its market share to 52.6 percentage points and to 56.2 percentage points, in June and
July, respectively, from its market share in May of 41.8 percentage points.
The "cdmaOne" service provided jointly by IDO Corp. and DDI-Cellular Group has continued to attract subscribers. The monthly increase for
July continued to exceed 300,000 subscribers, following good growth in June.
However, because there are a large number of switch-over subscribers from the existing personal digital cellular (PDC)-format service, such
increases still do not constitute a sizable growth of the cdmaOne service overall.
For IDO and DDI-Cellular, the sum total of the net increase of PDC and cdmaOne subscriptions is about 40 percent of the new subscribers of
cdmaOne.
Table: Growth in the number of cellular phone subscriptions in July 1999
Carrier July 1999
NTT DoCoMo 484,000
IDO (PDC) 31,900
IDO (cdmaOne) 81,400
DDI Cellular Group (PDC) 118,900
DDI Cellular Group(cdmaOne) 270,300
Digital Phone Group 148,300
TU-KA Cellular Group 41,500
Digital TU-KA Group 37,200
Total 861,800 |
