Japan wireless subscribers: September 2006 data

TCA's mobile phone market data for September revealed that Japan's wireless user base has increased by 315,000 users since August, totaling in 93,812,400 wireless subscribers. On the wireless carrier front there were winners and losers, with KDDI au getting 312,500 subscribers while KDDI's another brand - 2G carrier TU-KA - lost 151,700. But TU-KA can be hardly called a loser as KDDI's goal is to transform TU-KA's 2G user base to au's 3G services. Meanwhile DoCoMo managed to sign up 126,300 new users and Softbank continued Vodafone's tradition of adding the fewest of customers among three carriers (I exlude TU-KA from this competition) - it recorded only 23,400 net additions in September.

Source: TCA