NTT’s share in IP phone market tops 30%

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The two regional fixed-line services units of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp saw their combined share top 30% for the first time ever in Japan’s Internet Protocol phone market in terms of the number of subscribers, government data showed Tuesday.

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As of the end of March, the NTT units — NTT East Corp and NTT West Corp — had a combined share of 32.2% of Japan’s IP telephony market, biggest in the market, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said. The group increased its share by 10.3 percentage points from a year before.

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The NTT units outpaced Softbank BB Corp, a Softbank Corp subsidiary, which came in second with a 25.8% share, down 7.4 points.

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The NTT group offers IP telephone services in tandem with its fiber-optic broadband services, which contributed to increasing the NTT presence in the IP phone market. The group’s share in the fiber-optic market stood at 72.2%, up 3.2 points.

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The ministry also said that NTT DoCoMo Inc saw its share of the cellular phone and personal handy phone system market slip below 50% for the first time ever in terms of subscriber numbers.

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At the end of March, DoCoMo’s share stood at 49.7%, down 2.5 points. The share came to 28.3% for KDDI Corp, the au mobile phone operator, and 17.3% for Softbank Mobile Corp, another Softbank unit.

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