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Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Japan

Mobile number portability created winners and losers in only two months – the main business challenge for Japanese operators is to avoid a price war.

KDDI is the clear winner in the first round, DoCoMo suffers a setback, and SoftBank (which acquired Vodafone-Japan) did better than expected.

Today we released the 23rd edition of our JCOMM-Report – about 250 pages of overview and analysis of Japan’s telecom sector.

KDDI gains 524,000 subscribers in Oct & Nov 2006. DoCoMo for the first time ever since it was founded experienced a net loss of subscriptions.

Net gain/loss of Japan's mobile operators at introduction of mobile number portability (MNP)
Net gain/loss of Japan’s mobile operators at introduction of mobile number portability (MNP)

KDDI gains 600,000 new EZweb subscribers, Japanese operators earn much from mobile internet – subscription data show even better results for KDDI‘s EZweb.

gain/loss of subscriptions by Japanese mobile internet services during introduction of mobile number portability (MNP)
gain/loss of subscriptions by Japanese mobile internet services during introduction of mobile number portability (MNP)

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