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Subscriptions to au Cellular Service Exceeds 15 Million
Tokyo, Japan, August 20, 2003—KDDI is pleased to announce that the au cellular service provided by KDDI and Okinawa Cellular Telephone exceeded 15 million subscribers as of Friday, August 15.
In April 1999, the former IDO Corporation and former DDI Cellular group completed the deployment of a nationwide cdmaOne network, and started providing a seamless nationwide cellular service to customers. Furthermore the 3G service (CDMA2000 1x) that was launched in April 2002, provides a fast mobile Internet access environment underpinned by high-speed data communications. This is a communication standard that makes it possible to use EZweb, an Internet access service and to have connections to other providers, at 144kbps or less for downlink connections and 64kbps or less for uplink. Going forward, au is committed to providing 3G services to customers that are highly convenient.
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April 1999 |
Completion of the nationwide cdmaOne network |
September 2000 |
Termination of analog cellular service |
April 2002 |
3G (CDMA2000 1x) service launched |
March 2003 |
Termination of PDC standard service |
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The figure at the end of end March 1999 is the total of former IDO and 8 operators in the DDI Cellular group. |
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The figure at the end of March 2001 is the total of au, KDDI and Okinawa Cellular. |
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The figure at the end of March 2002 and March 2003 is the total of KDDI and Okinawa Cellular. |
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