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Japan's KDDI adds the most mobile users in Nov
Wednesday December 7, 2:57 PM

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TOKYO, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Japanese telecoms operator KDDI Corp.'s main mobile unit gained more new users on a net basis than dominant NTT DoCoMo Inc. in November for the fifth straight month, an industry group said on Wednesday.
DoCoMo maintained a lead in adding new third-generation (3G) users.

Vodafone K.K., the No. 3 Japanese mobile operator, owned by Britain's Vodafone Group Plc , posted its largest increase in customers since June 2004, when it added 64,100 customers, according to the Telecommunications Carriers Association, which compiles data reported by the companies.

KDDI's main au mobile unit added 283,200 new customers in November and users of its high-speed 3G service rose by 335,300 to over 20 million, or about 95 percent of its customer base.

DoCoMo followed with 120,400 net new customers, with the total topping 50 million. It added more than a million 3G users in November, many of whom switched from its older mobile services. It ended the month with about 37 percent of its customers on 3G.

Vodafone K.K. gained 57,000 new customers and finished the month with over 15 million subscribers, helped by the introduction of flat-rate price plans and an expanded handset lineup.

Tu-Ka, a former wholly owned KDDI mobile subsidiary absorbed by the parent on Oct. 1, lost 146,900 subscribers as KDDI has started the process of shifting Tu-Ka customers to au.

Net customer growth is calculated by subtracting customers who left a service from the absolute number of new subscribers.

The industry had a total of 89.68 million subscribers in November, of whom 45.6 percent were on 3G services.

Details were as follows:
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
OPERATOR SEPT OCTOBER NOVEMBER TOTAL
DoCoMo 124,800 90,100 120,400 50,114,700
au (KDDI) 165,100 235,400 283,200 21,222,200
Tu-Ka (KDDI) 1,300 -91,600 -146,900 3,289,000
Vodafone 3,300 4,500 57,000 15,053,000
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TOTAL 294,500 238,400 313,700 89,678,900
NEW USERS OF THIRD-GENERATION SERVICES
OPERATOR SEPT OCTOBER NOVEMBER TOTAL
DoCoMo 891,800 814,300 1,003,900 18,588,300
au (KDDI) 249,700 302,200 335,300 20,184,800
Vodafone 163,500 141,300 186,500 2,081,400
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TOTAL 1,305,000 1,257,800 1,525,700 40,854,500
Note: Numbers are rounded. Data provided by the
Telecommunications Carriers Association.