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KDDI announces subscribers to 3G cellular phones exceed 18 Million
April 9, 2005
KDDI announced that the total number of subscribers for 3G cellular phones provided by KDDI exceeded 18 million on April 6, 2005.
KDDI launched CDMA 1X au cellular phones On April 1, 2002, enabling the use of nationwide services exclusive to 3G cellular phones, such as "Movie Mail", "Photo Mail", and EZ "Chaku Uta(R)".
CDMA 1X WIN, based on the CDMA 1x network, launched in Novemebr 2003, enabling high speed data communications of up to 2.4Mbps, and allows the popular 3G EZweb services EZMovie and EZ Chaku Uta. In addition, CDMA 1X WIN hosts a series of rich services dedicated to CDMA 1X WIN, including EZChannel, an service that automatically distributes various genres of program, and Live Camera, a service that delivers desired video content in real time.
KDDI is the only one of the three 3G operators in Japan to use the CDMA2000 3G standard.
Japan's largest mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, has 11.5 million 3G subscribers. While the smallest Japanese operator, Vodafone Japan, has 917,000 3G subscribers.
Both NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone Japan are using the WCDMA 3G standard.
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