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11th February 2003 |
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(TOKYO) -- Users of mobile phone Internet services in Japan have exceeded 60 million people, the Telecommunications Carriers Association announced on February 7 according to its survey of mobile phone companies.
This means that four out of five mobile phone users in Japan access the Internet via their phones. The number of subscribers to mobile phone Internet services was 60.23 million people at the end of January, accounting for 81.5% of the 73.9 million mobile phone subscribers overall at the end of January. Of mobile phone Internet service subscribers, 36.56 million people, or 60.7%, were signed up for the i-mode service of NTT DoCoMo Inc. Subscribers to the EZweb service of KDDI Corp and the Tu-Ka group totaled 11.94 million people, accounting for 19.8% of all mobile phone Internet service subscribers. Subscribers to the J-Sky service of J-Phone Co Ltd came to 11.71 million people, accounting for 19.4% of thetotal. The Nihon Keizai
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Users
of mobile phone Internet services in Japan have exceeded 60 million people,
the Telecommunications Carriers Association announced on February 7 according
to its survey of mobile phone companies. |
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