“Can’t get your hands of the iPhone 5S?” Brooke Crothers reports for CNET. “Neither can Japan’s largest carrier, which is suffering mightily as a result.”
“NTT DoCoMo lost a net total of 66,800 subscribers in September, the worst loss ever, according to a report in Japan’s Nikkei on Monday,” Crothers reports. “And DoCoMo lost 133,100 subscribers based on the mobile number portability (MNP) system, the report said. DoCoMo blamed its subscriber-based problems on the double whammy of customers, who were waiting for the new iPhone, putting off purchases, and the subsequent scarcity of the 5S after it was announced.”
“The iPhone has been reshaping Japan’s telecommunications market — one of the largest in the world — as it gains in popularity,” Crothers reports. “DoCoMo’s problem is that it was late to the Apple phone game: the 5S and 5C are its first phone products from Apple.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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