{"id":15212,"date":"2011-09-08T03:01:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=15212"},"modified":"2011-09-08T03:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:01:35","slug":"mobile-subscribers-in-japan-the-latest-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/mobile-subscribers-in-japan-the-latest-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Subscribers In Japan: The Latest Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/mobile-subscribers-in-japan-the-latest-numbers\/logo-tca\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15215\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15215\" title=\"logo tca\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/logo-tca.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Telecommunications Carriers Association (TCA) of Japan has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tca.or.jp\/english\/database\/2011\/08\/index.html\">released<\/a> a set of statistics on Japan&#8217;s mobile market today, showing that the country had 122.44 million cell phone subscribers last month (out of a total population of 128 million). According to the organization, Japan&#8217;s carriers added 569,200 new customers between July and August.<br \/>\nBreaking down the number to individual carriers, the TCA said that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Softbank Mobile gained 239,000 new subscribers on a net basis in August, bringing the total to 26.62 million<\/li>\n<li>NTT Docomo came in second with 182,100 subscribers gained (total: 58.79 million)<\/li>\n<li>Emobile gained 75,000 new customers (total: 3.42 million)<\/li>\n<li>KDDI au attracted 73,000 subscribers (total: 33.53 million)<\/li>\n<li>Willcom gained 55,100 subscribers (total: 4.1 million)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_number_of_mobile_phones_in_use\">Wikipedia<\/a> (which uses slightly outdated numbers for some countries), these statistics make Japan the seventh largest mobile market in the world.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecommunications Carriers Association (TCA) of Japan has released a set of statistics on Japan&#8217;s mobile market today, showing that the country had 122.44 million cell phone subscribers last month (out of a total population of 128 million). According to the organization, Japan&#8217;s carriers added 569,200 new customers between July and August. Breaking down the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/mobile-subscribers-in-japan-the-latest-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobile Subscribers In Japan: The Latest Numbers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17,24],"tags":[947,1942,2376,2659,3436,3531],"class_list":["post-15212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","category-news","tag-docomo","tag-kddi","tag-mobile","tag-ntt","tag-softbank","tag-subscribers","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}