Since 2003, MIC has been requesting telecommunications carriers to report on their telecommunications business, as part of the competition review in the telecommunications business field. This time, MIC has compiled the latest data on the competitive situation concerning the entire telecommunications market.
The outline of the data is as follows:
[Outline]
- Fixed communications
i) |
With respect to the number of telephones subscribers,
NTT East (48.7%) and NTT West (49.1%) occupy 97.8% of the
total subscriptions. |
ii) |
As regards the number of telecommunications numbers allocated
to IP telephony services, SOFTBANK BB occupies 43.4%, NTT
Communications, 24.5% and KDDI, 13.4%. These top three carriers
occupy 81.3% of the total telecommunications numbers allocated
to IP telephony services. |
- Mobile communications
With respect to the number of cellular telephones and PHSs subscribers,
NTT DoCoMo's share is 54.7%, au Group, 21.7% and Vodafone, 16.2%.
The share of au Group has been increasing continuously.
- Internet
i) |
As for the number of DSL services subscribers, NTT East
(20.7%) and NTT West (17.4%) occupy 38.1%, and SOFTBANK
BB occupies 34.9%. These top three carriers occupy 73.0%
of the entire DSL market. |
ii) |
With regard to the number of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)subscribers
for single family homes and corporate users, NTT East (37.0%)
and NTT West (37.6%) occupy 74.6%, and the power utility
group occupies 22.3%. With respect to those for apartments
and condominiums, NTT East (22.1%) and NTT West (12.9%)
occupy 35.0%, and USEN occupies 20.3%. |
- Others
i) |
As for traffic volumes (the communication number and the
communication time), NTT Group occupies more than 60% of
the fixed communications market, NTT DoCoMo Group occupies
more than 60% of the cellular telephone market and KDDI
occupies nearly 30% of the international communications
market. These three hold the top share in the respective
market. |
ii) |
With respect to share of optical subscriber lines, although
the share of NTT (NTT East and NTT West) still remains high,
their share has been declining in some areas in western
Japan. |
Note: Detailed data are available at URL: http://www.soumu.go.jp/joho_tsusin/kyousouhyouka.html
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