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The Vodafone Address Book service makes life easier for Vodafone K.K. subscribers. The service protects their valuable phone contact information and offers several convenient features that include, simplifying the transfer of information from phone to phone, adding contacts online and even notifying them of upcoming birthdays and special events through Short Message Service (SMS). Because all the information is stored online as well as on their phone, users who choose the service will gain the assurance that their phone contact data will be protected if their handset is lost or broken. They can ... add or update contacts online from the convenience of their PC with the confidence that all contact information will be synchronized over-the-air with their handset through Nokia Intellisync Sync Server technology.
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Vodafone K.K., the Japan unit of Vodafone Group Plc, lost customers for the second straight month in February while larger rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KDDI Corp. showed solid gains, an industry group said on Monday. Vodafone, Japan’s third-largest mobile operator, lost 53,200 customers in February, leaving it with 15.1 million customers, according to the Telecommunications Carriers Association. The company has lagged its rivals in providing attractive content, services and phone functions. Net customer growth is calculated by subtracting customers who left the service from the absolute number of new subscribers. DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, logged the biggest gain with 246,100 new customers as users switched from older services to third-generation (3G) services, which offer high-speed Internet connections. KDDI’s main au (pronounced AY-U) mobile unit, Japan’s second-largest operator, added 183,700 new customers.
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Vodafone K.K., a leading cellular operator in Japan and a subsidiary of the Vodafone Group, has announced the inclusion of OKI's face recognition midddleware into the Vodafone 904SH mobile phone. Expect the Vodafone 904SH to be launched in late April 2006 in Japan. OKI's new security technology is labelled as FSE or Face Sensing Engine. It enables instant face recognition using the parent mobile's onboard camera.
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Vodafone K.K., the Japan unit of Vodafone Group Plc, reported on Tuesday a fifth straight monthly net loss in customer numbers despite an increase in users of its advanced 3G service. Vodafone, Japan’s third-largest mobile operator, lost 39,900 customers in May, finishing the month with less than 15 million subscribers. KDDI Corp.’s au subsidiary, Japan’s second-largest mobile operator, added 181,900 customers in May, winning a tight race over industry leader NTT DoCoMo Inc., which expanded its user base by 177,500 to 49.25 million. The industry had a total of 87.74 million subscribers in May, up 308,900 from April.
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Vodafone Japan has added a new function to its MMS service for 3G handsets which displays mails written in foreign languages. At the time of launch on 3 April 2006, customers will be able to send mails in Japanese to China Mobile and China Unicom customers, and ... receive mails written in Chinese from customers using these same operators. Vodafone K.K. plans to expand this capability to more countries and regions that use non-English languages.
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Vodafone Group today confirmed a rumored sale of its Japanese unit, Vodafone K.K. to Softbank for $15.4 billion. Vodafone K.K. is the third largest carrier in Japan but has been struggling financially.
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