Status of Numbers of Subscribers to Telecommunications Services
(As of end of June 2007)
An overview of the result is provided in the following.
1. Subscription telephones and ISDNThe total number of subscription contracts as of the end of June 2007 for subscription telephones and ISDN was 54.217 million, a 5.6% year-on-year decrease, and this declining trend continues.
2. Number of IP phone usersThe number of IP phone users as of the end of June 2007 is 15.276 million. This is a 26.3% increase from the same period of last year, and this increasing trend continues. The increase in the users of IP phones with the 0AB-J number structure (10 digits, starting with a zero) is especially remarkable, a 145.0% year-on-year increase.
3. Mobile phones and PHSThe number of contracts for mobile phones and PHS as of the end of June 2007 totaled 103.078 million. This number represents a 5.6% year-on-year increase, and this steady increasing trend continues.
Subscription telephones and ISDN
The total number of subscription contracts as of the end of June 2007 for subscription telephones and ISDN was 54.217 million, a 1.7% decrease when compared to the end of March 2007.
In addition, the decline was of 5.6% on a year-on-year basis.
* The figures for the end of fiscal year 2006 have been corrected as a result of the figures being checked.
Note 1: Dry copper telephones: NTT East and West telephone service using metal circuits
Note 2: The subscription figures shown here do not include the number of subscribers to My Line.
Note 3: Parentheses indicate rate of growth or decline year-on-year.
Number of IP phone users
The number of IP phone users as of the end of June 2007 is 15.276 million, an increase of 5.5% over the figure at the end of March 2007. The increase over the same period last year was of 26.3%, and this upward trend continues.
Specially notable in this set of figures was the rate of increase in the number of 0AB-J IP users, which was up 19.0% over the end of March 2007, and 145% over the same period last year.
Note1: This reflects the total number of 050 and 0AB-J telephone numbers utilized by final users, and is not a rigorously accurate number of subscriptions.Note 2: Also, with regard to the portion for fiscal year 2003, a survey was conducted based on the Detailed Items for Implementation of Competition Review in the Telecommunications Business Field FY2004.
Note 3: The figures for the end of fiscal year 2006 have been corrected as a result of the figures being checked.
Mobile phones and PHS
The number of contracts for mobile phones and PHS as of the end of June 2007 totaled 103.078 million. This number represents a 5.6% increase year on year, and a penetration rate of 80.7%* of the population.
The subscription contract numbers per category were 98.056 million for mobile phones and 5.022 million for PHS.
In addition, of the subscription contracts for mobile phones, the proportion of contracts for 3rd generation mobile phones stood at 74.691 million, accounting for 76.2% of the total.
* The population used to calculate the penetration rate in the population uses the figures for nationwide population count (complete tabulation: 127.767994 million) in the 2005 Population Census announced by Statistics Bureau, MIC in October 2005.
(Reference)
Number of subscribers for IP connection services from mobile terminals (end of June 2007)
85.649220 million contracts*
(Proportion to total of mobile phone contracts: 87.3%)
(* Total of iMode, EZweb and Yahoo! mobile)
Note: For past figures for the number of contracts for mobile communications, please refer to the MIC Information and Communications Statistics Database (Communications and number of contracts) at: http://www.soumu.go.jp/johotsusintokei/english/