June 18, 2021 Announcement of Quarterly Data on the Number of Telecommunications Service Contracts and Market Share (FY2020 Q4 (End of March))

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has recently summarized the number of contracts of telecommunications services and the market share in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020 (as of the end of March). This announcement is based on reports from telecommunications carriers under the Rules for Reporting on Telecommunications Business (Ministerial Ordinance of MPT No. 46 of 1988).

Main points

1. Mobile communications

(Note: The number of contracts is adjusted after intra-group transactions unless otherwise specified.)

1. Mobile communications (mobile phone, PHS, BWA)

• Number of mobile communications contracts (mobile phone, PHS, and BWA contracts; the same applies hereafter): 195.12 million (up 1.4% from the previous quarter, up 4.6% from the same quarter of the previous year, and 270.10 million in simple total)
• Number of mobile phone contracts: 194.33 million (up 1.7% from the previous quarter and up 5.2% from the same quarter of the previous year)
• Number of 3.9-4th generation mobile phone (LTE) contracts: 154.37 million (down 2.3% from the previous quarter and up 1.1% from the same quarter of the previous year); Number of 5th generation mobile phone contracts: 14.19 million (an increase of 8.74 million from the previous quarter)
• Number of PHS contracts: 0.66 million (down 39.3% from the previous quarter and down 59.2% from the same quarter of the previous year)
• Number of BWA contracts: 75.05 million (up 0.9% from the previous quarter and up 5.4% from the same quarter of the previous year)
• Share of mobile communications contracts per business operator:
  • NTT Docomo: 36.9% (no change from the previous quarter and down 0.4 points from the same quarter of the previous year; 42.3% including those related to service provision to MVNOs)
  • KDDI Group: 27.1% (down 0.3 points from the previous quarter and down 0.5 points from the same quarter of the previous year; 30.9% including those related to service provision to MVNOs)
  • SoftBank: 21.1% (down 0.3 points from the previous quarter and down 0.7 points from the same quarter of the previous year; 25.2% including those related to service provision to MVNOs)
  • Rakuten Mobile: 1.5% (up 0.6 points from the previous quarter and up 1.5 points from the same quarter of the previous year)

2. MVNO

• Number of MVNO service contracts^*: 26.12 million (up 1.0% from the previous quarter and up 5.6% from the same quarter of the previous year)
• Percentage of mobile communications contracts: 13.4% (down 0.1 points from the previous quarter and up 0.1 points from the same quarter of the previous year)

• *
  Figures exclude the number of MVNO contracts of mobile network operators (MNO).

2. Fixed communications

1. Data communications

• Number of fixed broadband service contracts: 42.68 million (up 0.9% from the previous quarter and up 3.6% from the same quarter of the previous year)
• Number of fixed ultra-high-speed broadband service^*1 contracts: 39.61 million (up 1.2% from the previous quarter and up 6.8% from the same quarter of the previous year)
• Number of FTTH contracts: 35.02 million (up 1.4% from the previous quarter and up 5.8% from the same quarter of the previous year)
• Share of FTTH contracts per business operator (classified by telecommunication equipment owner [including those related to the provision of wholesale telecommunications services^*2])
  • Nippon Telegraph & Telephone East and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone West (hereafter referred to as NTT East and West): 64.4% (down 0.3 points from the previous quarter and down 1.0 points from the same quarter of the previous year)
  • KDDI Group: 11.6% (down 0.1 points from the previous quarter and down 0.5 points from the same quarter of the previous year)
  • OPTAGE: 4.5% (no change from the previous quarter and down 0.2 points from the same quarter of the previous year)
• Share of FTTH contracts per business operator (classified by service provider):
  • NTT East and West: 20.9% (down 0.6 points from the previous quarter and down 2.6 points from the same quarter of the previous year)
  • NTT Docomo: 20.1% (no change from the previous quarter and up 0.5 points from the same quarter of the previous year)
  • KDDI Group: 9.7% (no changes from the previous quarter and the same quarter of the previous year)
  • SoftBank: 11.5% (up 0.2 points from the previous quarter and up 0.5 points from the same quarter of the previous year)
• The number of FTTH contracts provided using wholesale telecommunications services is 18.56 million. Out of them, 15.25 million contracts were provided using wholesale telecommunications services of NTT East and West, accounting for 43.5% of the total number of FTTH contracts (up 0.4 points from the previous quarter and up 1.6 points from the same quarter of the previous year)

• *1
  A total of FTTH and CATV Internet (coaxial/HFC) services with a downlink communications speed of 30 Mbps or more.
• *2
  Telecommunications services provided by telecommunications carriers for use in the telecommunications business.

2. Voice communications

• Number of landline contracts: 52.84 million (down 0.5% from the previous quarter and down 1.5% from the same quarter of the previous year)
• NTT East and West’s share of landline contracts: 65.1% (down 0.2 points from the previous quarter and down 0.8 points from the same quarter of the previous year)
• Number of IP phone numbers used: 44.67 million (up 0.1% from the previous quarter and up 1.2% from the same quarter of the previous year), of which the number of 0ABJ numbers used was 35.68 million (up 0.3% from the previous quarter and up 1.3% from the same quarter of the previous year)
• Share of the 0ABJ numbers used for IP phones per business operator:
  • NTT East and West: 52.4% (no change from the previous quarter and down 0.1 points from the same quarter of the previous year)
  • KDDI Group: 32.4% (down 0.3 points from the previous quarter and down 0.8 points from the same quarter of the previous year)