KDDI is Japan's second largest provider of a full-range of telecommunication services and is the major competitor to NTT, the government owned incumbent. It provides both business and residential customers with integrated "global" and "seamless" services with its core concepts of "Mobile & IP."

In the next-generation mobile communications area, KDDI successfully launched CDMA2000 1x service on April 1, 2002 and the total number of subscribers of its third generation cellular service topped the four million mark in less than nine months after the launch. The CDMA2000 1x service has a wireless Internet environment and allows downstream data transmission at speeds of up to 144kbps with the Internet connection service Ezweb.

KDDI is also planning to start CDMA2000 1x EV-DO to meet the growing demand for faster and less expensive wireless Internet connection in 2003.

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