Status of Numbers of Subscribers to Telecommunications Services
(As of the end of September 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 September 2007 for subscription telephones and ISDN was 53.330 million, a 6.1% 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 September 2007 was 15.949 million. This is a 22.7% 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 113.2% year-on-year increase.
3. Mobile phones and PHSThe number of contracts for mobile phones and PHS as of the end of September 2007 totaled 104.290 million. This number represents a 5.7% year-on-year increase, and this steady increasing trend continues.
Subscription telephones and ISDN
The total number of subscription contracts for subscription telephones and ISDN was 53.330 million as of the end of September 2007, a drop of approximately 1.6% compared to the previous quarter (the end of June 2007). The year on year (compared to the end of September 2006) drop was 6.1%.
Note 1: Dry copper telephones: NTT East and West telephone service using metal circuits
Note 2: These subscription figures shown here do not include the number of subscribers to My Line.
Note 3: Parenthesis indicate rate of growth or decline year on year.
Number of IP phone users
There were 15.949 million IP phone users as of the end of September 2007, an increase of 4.4% over the figure at the end of the previous quarter (compared to the end of June 2007), and an increase of 22.7% year on year (compared to the end of September 2006), showing a continuing upward trend.
The particularities of the results of this survey were that users of 0AB-J IP phones increased noticeably, showing a 15.0% increase of the previous quarter (compared to the end of June 2007), and an increase of 113.2% year on year (compared to the end of September 2006).
Note 1: 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: With regard to the portion for FY2003, a survey was conducted based on the Detailed Items for Implementation of Competition Review in the Telecommunications Business Field FY2004.
Mobile phones and PHS
The number of contracts for mobile phones and PHS totaled 104.290 million as of the end of September 2007, an increase of 5.7% year on year. Penetration among the population stood at 81.6%.*
The number of mobile phone subscription contracts stood at 99.334 million and the number of PHS subscription contracts was 4.956 million.
In addition, the number of third-generation mobile phone subscription contracts stood at 79.323 million, accounting for 79.9% 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 September 2007):
86.532192 million contracts*
(Proportion to total of mobile phone contracts: 87.1%)
(* 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/