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To: foundation who wrote (25284)	8/7/2002 8:31:11 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197208

KDDI Wins the Latest Heat of Japanese 3G Race (07/08/2002, BWCS Staff) Japanese mobile operator KDDI has once again outdone the country’s largest cellco, NTT DoCoMo, by attracting almost half a million new customers to its next-generation service. KDDI added 493,000 subscribers to its cdma2000 1X network in July to take its total 3G customer base to more than 1.64 million. DoCoMo, meanwhile, which launched the world’s first 3G services under the name FOMA in October last year, signed up just 12,900 subscribers last month, to give it a total of 127,400. KDDI’s success with next-generation services has been attributed to the fact that it offers roaming between its 2G and 3G networks on the same handset, while DoCoMo customers have had to carry a separate handset for 3G calls. There was some good news for the NTT subsidiary: DoCoMo is still by far the largest mobile operator in Japan and it added the most customers during July. The company attracted almost 300,000 new users across its 2G and 3G networks last month to give it 41.76 million customers. KDDI’s customer base rose from 12.69 million to just over 12.8 million, while the country’s third cellular operator, Vodafone-backed J-Phone, is hot on the heels of KDDI, adding 125,000 subscribers to end the month with 12.79 million users, although KDDI can claim an additional 2.9 million users on its DDI Pocket PHS network. bwcs.com ========== NTT DoCoMo won most subscribers in July 0 8:35 Wednesday August 7, 2002, Telecom.paper The battle for mobile subscribers in Japan continues as the biggest operator NTT DoCoMo secured the leading spot for July for the second month in a row, with a series of new camera-equipped phones luring users, data provided by wireless operators showed. The company said it added 290,000 cellphone subscribers in July, lifting its overall subscriber base to 41.76 million. Besides the regular cellphone service, DoCoMo also provides next generation services. It added 12,900 third-generation "FOMA" subscribers in July, bringing that total number to 127,400, and it added 571,000 subscribers to its "i-mode" mobile Internet service in July, for a total of 34.06 million, the company said. Second biggest mobile operator J-Phone won 125,000 new users. Its total subscriber base reached 12.795 million. J-Phone also said it added 144,200 subscribers to its "J-Sky" mobile Internet service in July, for a total of 10.790 million subscribers. KDDI Corp. said it added a net total of 104,200 cellphone subscribers in July, generating an overall cellphone subscriber base of 16.681 million. telecom.paper.nl

To: foundation who wrote (25284)	8/7/2002 8:55:09 AM
From: Ramsey Su	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197208

The house of cards falling fast. If my notes serve me right, Norway awarded 4 licenses back in late 2000 via beauty contest. I got down something like $3 per pop cost. Unlike UK and Germany, Norway's 3G cost is mainly building out the network, vs that ridiculous tax. So is it true that these beauty contest winners can walk at little or no penalty? Another country with beauty contest carriers is Finland. One of the winners, Sonera, has already made the decision to dump plans in Germany. Will they hang in Finland and waste money on a market with 5.2 million people? Even though I am a believer that wcdma will fail in its present form, I can't say I expect the speed that it is failing.