KDDI

KDDI

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KDDI, also known as KDDI Corporation, is a publicly owned company headquartered in Japan. Founded in 1984, it employs approximately 2,100 individuals and reported $39.1B in revenue as of 2024. The company functions as a Japanese telecommunications provider, with its main product being telecoms.

2024 Revenue

Founded

1984

Headcount

2,097

Headquarters

Japan

Primary Segment

Telecoms

Ownership

Publicly Owned

Deployments

1

News Summary:

On March 22, 2026, major mobile phone carriers, including KDDI, announced the April 1 rollout of the Japan Roaming service. This new service will allow users to connect to other carriers’ networks during large-scale outages, representing an industry-wide effort to manage disruptions following a major KDDI outage in 2022. Previously, on March 19, KDDI, owner of Telehouse, acquired the 1.1 million square foot Inventory Estate in London’s Docklands, also known as the Republic campus. KDDI purchased the property from LaSalle Investment Management and Trilogy Real Estate for approximately £250 million ($333.8 million). The acquired site holds planning permission for a large data center development, potentially adding a sixth data center to Telehouse’s Docklands campus.

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KDDI offers 6 products in the connectivity and cloud and media and telecoms services industries. KDDI's product portfolio comprises of media and TV services, enterprise cloud, telecoms and broadcast television and radio.

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KDDI's revenues were $39.1B in 2024. Caretta Research has split KDDI's revenue into 6 different product categories, the largest of which is enterprise broadband and voice, which represents 65% of KDDI's revenue.

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2026

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18th

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