
NTT DoCoMo has announced that it added 251,000 subscribers in N December 2005, taking its total subscriber base to over 50.3 million. Second-placed operator KDDI has announced that it has signed up 348,300 subscribers, taking its total subscriber base to over 21.5 million. Meanwhile, Vodafone Japan lost 173,100 GSM subscribers in December, but gained 236,800 WCDMA subscribers to take its total subscriber base to over 15.1 million as of end-December 2005.