mocoNews - iPhone Helps Japan's Softbank Record Biggest Amount Of Net Adds In May

It seems that even the Japanese with their much more feature packed phones can not resist the iPhone. According to TeleGeography, in the iPhone has helped Japan's third largest carrier Softbank get a net addition of all the Japanese networks during the month of May. Japanese industrial groups Telecommunications Carriers Association (TCA) to the new data that showed on Friday Softbank Mobile gained 105,000 new net profits in May. The carrier said that the popularity of the iPhone 3G has helped increase sales, but also contributed to the network of three long iPhone sales campaign that began in February. During their "iPhone for All" campaign, Softbank offered free 8GB iPhone from new subscribers signing up to a two-year contract, a 16-GB model for $ 118. In the iPhone a maximum data also fell in price from $ 62 per month to $ 46.50 a month.

Net adds in the other Japanese carriers were as follows: eMobile, the fourth-largest carrier, added a net 67,700 users, the dominant Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), added 61,700 new users; KDDI, the country's second largest network added 51,900 new users.