Yesterday Japan’s Telecommunications Carriers Association (TCA) announced mobile phone subscriber statistics for October. It did not contain much surprise to see KDDI (9433.T) made a leap to becoming No. 2 carrier in Japan since we expected it would benefit from being a new vendor to Apple’s IPhone. But it was a surprise to see Softbank (9984.T) not giving up any ground as it was losing its exclusivity. Total new subscribers for October 589,200 was 13% lower than September but still a healthy 17.6% above the same period last year. Softbank kept its leadership in dominating the new subscribers, 19 months…