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What you need to know: This weblog captures key data points about the global telecoms industry. I use it as an electronic notebook to support my work for Pringle Media.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Smartphone Sales Lift KDDI


KDDI, one of Japan's largest telcos, said its operating revenues rose 5.7% year-on-year to 902.12 billion Japanese yen (11.34 billion US dollars) in the quarter ending December 31, 2011.  KDDI said the increase was due in part to rising sales of smartphones - the operator sold 1.63 million smartphones in the quarter compared with 390,000 in the same quarter a year earlier.

KDDI also said that its mobile data ARPU rose 8.2% year-on-year to 2,510 yen in the quarter, but voice ARPU fell 26% to 1,960 yen. The operator plans to spend 450 billion yen on capex in the year ending March 31, up marginally from the year before. source: KDDI presentation

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