The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has put together and published an outline of the share data for the 4th quarter of 2008 (end of March) as a part of the evaluations of competition in the telecommunications business field.

Fixed communications

With respect to the number of telephones subscribers, NTT East and West occupied 84.7% or a drop of 0.4 points to the total subscriptions, which continued its downward movement.

Regarding the number of telecommunications numbers allocated to IP telephony services, NTT Communications made up 38.9% of market share, SOFTBANK BB 20.2%, and KDDI, 12.9%.

Mobile Communications

Subscribers in the cellular phone and PHS market were largely made up of NTT Docomo subscribers at 48.7%, which continued its slight decline with a drop of 1.0%. KDDI made up 27.5% of the market share, and Soft Bank Mobile occupied 18.4% respectively.

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