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Broadband subscribers in Japan, end of June 2004.
DSL 12,068,718 (11,819,177)
Fiber 1,417,483 (1,327,775)
Cable 2,702,000 (2,661,000)
Total 16,188,201 (15,807,952)
New subscribers for the month below 400,000 for the first time since September 2002. July will likely see a further drop.
Study reported in the Nikkei last week breaks down numbers for March 2004 by market share:
1. Softbank 35.8%
2. NTT East 20.4%
3. NTT West 16.1%
4. eAccess 13.4%
5. Acca Networks 10.4%
NTT's combined share is larger, but Softbank seen as the market leader. eAccess boosted sales when it introduce a 40Mbps service ahead of rivals (see http://www.too-much.tv/glocomish/2004/02/more_from_the_n.html), but dropped back again since and its market share on the year dropped 0.1%.