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Japan’s Softbank regains lead in new user signups

Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 6th, 2009

Japan’s 3rd largest carrier, Softbank Corp, signed up 115,100 new subscribers in August leapfrogging the island nation’s largest carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. with 112,900 new subs, and KDDI, the second largest carrier, with 77,800 new customers. Softbank is currently Japan’s sole iPhone provider and it’s a safe bet that Apple’s popular smartphones (3G and 3GS) helped [...]

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iPhone in Japan not just a launch day wonder

Posted in iPhone in Japan on Aug 17th, 2009

According to a new survey conducted by GFK, the iPhone 3GS in Japan is maintaining its momentum from its “lines around the block” June ’09 launch in Japan. The new video enabled iPhone is going over big in Japan. According to a  survey conducted last month, iPhone 3GS ranked as the bestselling handset in Japan [...]

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Softbank CEO gives props to iPhone

Posted in iPhone in Japan on Jul 30th, 2009

Two major Japanese wireless carriers announced quarterly earnings today, and amidst the flurry of numbers and “analyst speak,” iPhone drew considerable attention and was featured in many post earnings write-ups. Japan’s largest wireless provider, NTT DoCoMo (50 million subscribers) saw their April-June quarterly profit slip 15% from the prior year. In contrast, Japan’s exclusive seller [...]

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Japanese iPhone fans line up for iDay

Posted in iPhone in Japan on Jun 25th, 2009

The iPhone 3GS goes on sale tomorrow in Japan There are already long lines at Softbank storefronts awaiting iPhone 3GS launch on June 26. See more photos > iPhone VelVet Society / Hideki Francis Onda’s VelVet Society Thanks to Boxerconan at AAPL Sanity and greenaapl.exblog.jp for the heads up and links translation

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Japanese line up to pre-order iPhone 3GS

Posted in iPhone in Japan on Jun 17th, 2009

via Boxerconan over at AAPL Sanity and GeenAAPL.exblog.jp … “There are 20 people on line at one of the local Softbank Stores in Tokyo (not the flagship store).” Note that this only for pre-order of iPhone 3GS. The iPhone 3GS won’t be available in Japan until June 26th. [thanks to iphonefan for links] photo source Update via Boxerconan: “They [...]

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