October 13, 2004
Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs,
Posts and Telecommunications



Information about the Spread of DSL services
(Prompt report current as of the end of September 2004)



  NTT West Area NTT East Area
Lines provided by NTT
East and NTT West
2,118,852 lines 2,620,324lines
Lines provided by other
carriers
3,675,328 lines 4,325,060 lines
Sub Total 5,794,180 lines 6,945,384 lines
Total 12,739,564 lines
* All lines in the above chart are provided using NTT East and NTT West terminal circuits.


cumlative number of subscribers

Number of DSL subscribers at the end of each month
  Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec.
2000 19 62 211 399 760 1,235 1,605 2,122 2,537 3,171 5,347 9,723
2001 16,194 34,372 70,655 112,182 178,737 291,333 400,760 510,339 650,796 921,867 1,204,564 1,524,564
2002 1,787,598 2,076,302 2,378,795 2,699,285 3,028,556 3,300,926 3,610,199 3,915,740 4,223,216 4,639,545 5,117,867 5,645,728


* The information contained in this press release is also planned to be published on the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications' Web site at
< http://www.soumu.go.jp/joho_tsusin/whatsnew/dsl/>.