Softbank 4th-quarter net profit doubles

well done softbank!!

great, now use some of that money and come up with some better phone designs. Softbank have the most boring lineup in Japan.

Softbank, well done, though your profit announcement is in 'Technology' coloumn, readers do notice and admire your services.

The company said it added 530,000 subscribers in March, outpacing rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc and KDDI Corp for the 11th straight month. They did outpace DoCoMo, but AU got roughly the same number of new customers in March. True, KDDI was still bleeding TU-KA subscriptions badly until April but from now on new lean KDDI can compete with Softbank neck in neck and with 30% market share they're well ahead. Anyway, the market in Japan is far from saturated but I don't see how Softbank is poised to be number 1 even locally once it comes to snatching subsribers from each other. After a short slump even DoCoMo is steadily gaining more new customers than losing old ones.