Japan wireless subscribers: February data

The number of Japan’s wireless subscribers increased by 334,700 in February, driving the total user-base to 90,767,700 active users. KDDI au posted the largest net additions, signing up 275 thousand users. However, these high results were undermined by losses at KDDI’s struggling 2G unit – Tu-ka, which reported almost 115 thousand subscribers leaving the company. NTT DoCoMo signed up 162 thousand new users, while Vodafone lagged behind with twelve thousand of net adds.

Measuring by total number of subscribers, NTT DoCoMo continued its domination with 56% market share, which translates into 50.6 million wireless subscribers. KDDI was in a distant second place with au unit taking 24% (22m) of the market share and Tu-ka unit being down to 3% (2.9m). Vodafone slightly improved its performance, having 17% of the market share with the total customer base, reaching 15.1 million.