Japan had a 5G coverage of 98.1 percent of the population as of March 2024. The rollout of commercial 5G services by Japan's major mobile carriers NTT Docomo, KDDI, and SoftBank started in March 2020. Rakuten Mobile, which became the country’s fourth major carrier in 2020, started its 5G rollout in September of that year. As a breakdown of the 5G coverage by prefecture shows, almost all of the 47 prefectures in Japan had a 5G coverage of over 90 percent by March 2024.
5G coverage of the population in Japan from 2022 to 2024
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Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan). (August 30, 2024). 5G coverage of the population in Japan from 2022 to 2024 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 02, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1548593/japan-5g-coverage/
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Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan). (2024). 5G coverage of the population in Japan from 2022 to 2024. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: March 02, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1548593/japan-5g-coverage/
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