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KDDI Announces au Cell-phone Subscriptions Exceed 20 Million

KDDI Corporation
Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company

2005/6/9

KDDI and Okinawa Cellular announced today that the number of subscribers to au cell-phone servicesb exceeded 20 million on June 7. Of the subscribers, more than 92% use 3G phones.

graph: au Cell-phone Subscriptions Exceed 20 Million

April 1999
Nationwide cdmaOne network completed
September 2000
Analog service terminated
April 2002
3G cellular service (CDMA 1X) launched
March 2003
PDC service terminated
November 2003
CDMA 1X WIN service launched

[1]  Totals for the end of March 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 are combined totals of the former IDO and eight former DDI Cellular operators.
[2]  The total for the end of March 2001 are the total of au, KDDI, and Okinawa Cellular.
[3]  Totals for the end of March 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 and June 7, 2005 are totals of KDDI and Okinawa Cellular.

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