Official Announcement of Quarterly Data on the Number of Telecommunications Service Subscriptions and Market Share (FY2012 Q2 (End of September 2012)

Major points

1. Fixed communications

(1) There is little change in the number of subscribers of fixed telephones (subscribed telephones of NTT East and West, landline phones, 0ABJ-IP phones and CATV telephones), now standing at 56.84 million (a decrease of 0.2% over the previous quarter).
　　The fixed telephone market share of NTT East and West has been on a downward trend, now standing at 77.9% (a decrease of 0.6% over the previous quarter).

(2) The number of IP phone numbers continues to increase, now standing at 29.83 million (an increase of 2.1% over the previous quarter). Among these, the number of 0ABJ-IP phone numbers continues to increase and now stands at 22.51 million (an increase of 3.4% over the previous quarter). The market share of the number of 0ABJ-IP phone numbers of NTT East and West continues to decrease and stands at 63.9% (a decrease of 0.7 % over the previous quarter), while that of KDDI continues to increase up to 21.4% (an increase of 1.1 % over the previous quarter).
　　Also, the number of 050-IP phone numbers continues to decrease to 7.31 million (a decrease of 1.9% over the previous quarter). There is a slight change in the market share of NTT Communications with an increase of 0.5% from the previous quarter to 39.9%, while Softbank BB shows 38.4% share, down 0.6% over the previous quarter).

2. Mobile communications

　　The number of subscribers of mobile communications (including MVNO) continues to increase to 136.43 million (an increase of 1.4% over the previous quarter). The number of mobile phone subscribers also continues to increase to 131.62 million (an increase of 1.3% over the previous quarter). Also, the number of PHS subscriptions continues to increase and has now reached 4.81 million (an increase of 2.3% over the previous quarter).
　　The subscription share of mobile phones and PHS of NTT DoCoMo continues to decrease, standing at 44.6% (a decrease of 0.3% over the previous quarter), while the market share of KDDI is nearly unchanged, standing at 26.5% (unchanged over the previous quarter). In addition, the market share of Softbank Mobile is on an upward trend, standing at 22.3% (an increase of 0.2% over the previous quarter).
　　The number of MVNO subscriptions increased to 5.55 million (an increase of 6.3% over the previous quarter).
　　

3. Internet connections

(1) The number of broadband service (*2) subscriptions continues to increase, now standing at 46.539 million (an increase of 11.3% over the previous quarter).
(2) The number of 3.9G mobile phone packet communication service subscriptions has been dramatically increasing up to 7.289 million (an increase of 101.5% over the previous quarter).
(3) The number of BWA subscriptions has been dramatically increasing to 4.013 million (an increase of 31.7% over the previous quarter).
(4) The number of FTTH subscriptions continues to increase, now standing at 23.20 million (an increase of 1.6% over the previous quarter). While the FTTH market share of NTT East and West decreased to 73.4% (a decrease of 0.5% over the previous quarter), that of power line communications carriers has been almost unchanged, standing at 8.9% (a decrease of 0.1% over the previous quarter) and that of KDDI increased to 10.6% (an increase of 0.6% over the previous quarter).
(5) The number of DSL subscriptions continues to decrease to 6.046 million (a decrease of 4.7% over the previous quarter). As for the market share, Softbank BB stayed at 39.1% (an increase of 0.2% over the previous quarter) while NTT East and West remained nearly unchanged with 34.7% (a decrease of 0.1% over the previous quarter).
(6) The number of FTTH subscriptions across all prefectures has been increasing, while in all prefectures the number of DSL subscriptions has been decreasing.

*1 The MIC has evaluated competition in the telecommunications business field since FY2003 and officially announced quarterly data on the status of competition based on information gathered from carriers as part of the evaluation.

*2

Broadband services		FTTH access services, DSL access services, CATV access services, FWA access services,BWA access services, and 3.9G mobile telephone packetcommunication access services
	FTTH access services	Access services connecting to networks viaoptical fiber lines (including VDSL, etc. using telephone lines in some apartments of collective housing, etc.)
	DSL access services	Access services (ADSL, etc.) connecting to networks viatelephone lines (metal lines)
	CATV access services	Access services connecting to networks viacable television lines.
	FWA access services	Access services for wireless network connections of fixed user terminals.
	BWA access services	Access services connecting to networks viabroadband wireless access systems using 2.5GHz band (WiMAX, etc.).
	3.9G mobile telephone packetcommunication access services	Access services connecting to networks via 3.9G mobile communications systems (LTE) using mobile telephones, etc.

Previous Reports (“Quarterly Data on Telecommunications Service Contract Numbers and Market Share Published”)
-Official Announcement of Quarterly Data on the Number of Telecommunications Service Subscriptions and Market Share (FY2012 Q1 (End of June 2012)) (press release of September 27, 2012)
-Official Announcement of Quarterly Data on the Number of Telecommunications Service Subscriptions and Market Share (FY2011 Q4 (End of March 2012) (press release of June 22, 2012)