Status of Numbers of Subscribers to Telecommunications Services
(As of end of December 2008)
The outline of the results compiled on this occasion is given below.
1. Subscription telephones and ISDNThe total number of subscription contracts as of the end of December 2008 for subscription telephones and ISDN was 48.427 million, a 7.5% year on year decrease, with the declining trend continuing.
2. Number of IP phone usersThe number of IP phone users as of the end of December 2008 was 19.586 million. This marks a 16.8% increase from the same period of last year, with the upward trend continuing. The increase in the users of IP phones with the 0AB-J number structure (10 digits, starting with a zero) was especially noticeable, with a year on year increase of 51.9%.
3. Mobile phones and PHSThe number of contracts for mobile phones and PHS as of the end of December 2007 totaled 110.395 million, showing a 4.8% increase year on year, with the steady upward trend continuing.
* Since the unshown portion of the values has been adjusted upward or downward, there may be cases where totals do not add up accurately.
Subscription telephones and ISDN
The total number of subscription contracts for subscription telephones and ISDN was 48.427 million as of the end of December 2008, a drop of 1.9% compared to the previous quarter (the end of September 2008). In addition, the year on year (compared to the end of December 2007) drop was 7.5%.
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 19.586 million IP phone users as of the end of December 2008, an increase of 2.8% over the figure at the end of the previous quarter (compared to the end of September 2008), and an increase of 16.8% year on year (compared to the end of December 2007), showing a continuing upward trend.
The number of users of 0AB-J IP phones was up 8.6% over the previous quarter (compared to the end of September 2008), and up 51.9% year on year (compared December 2007).
The number of 050 IP phones was down 2.9% over the previous quarter (compared to the end of September 2008), and down 7.1% year on year (compared to the end of December 2007).
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 110.395 million as of the end of December 2008, an increase of 4.8% year on year. Penetration among the population stood at 86.4%.*
The number of mobile phone subscription contracts stood at 105.825 million and the number of PHS subscription contracts was 4.570 million. In addition, the number of third-generation mobile phone subscription contracts stood at 96.066 million, accounting for 90.8% 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 December 2008): 90.173 million contracts*
(Proportion to total of mobile phone contracts: 85.2%)
(* Total of iMode, EZweb, Yahoo! mobile, and EMnet)
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/
State of Japan’s Communications in Terms of Traffic
- State of Telecommunications Services Usage in FY2007 -
Background
MIC is looking to report on the state of telecommunications volume as related to telecommunications services provided by telecommunications carriers, as mandated by the Rules for Reporting on Telecommunications Business.
The results on traffic data have been compiled on fiscal year 2007 and are announced here.
Objective
The aim of this survey is to grasp usage trends based on data that is objective and reliable in order to investigate a framework for telecommunications services that are essential to people’s lives and socio economy activity and to deepen understanding of telecommunications services among the people by announcing the results.
Outline
This document is a compilation of data collected and analysis of data released by telecommunications carriers concerning the state of use of subscription phones, ISDN, IP phones, mobile phones and PHS in fiscal year 2007 (April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008) as mandated by the Rules for Reporting on Telecommunications Business (MPT Ordinance No. 46 of 1988).
1. Introduction(1) The purpose of the statistics
In order to investigate framework for telecommunications services that are essential to people’s lives and socio economy activity, it is vital to grasp usage trends based on data that is objective and reliable.
It is from this perspective that, in 1988, MIC formulated the Rules for Reporting on Telecommunications Business (MPT Ordinance No. 46 of 1988), requesting from telecommunications carriers reports on traffic related to voice services for use in formulating telecommunications policy.
Also, the fact of releasing this data to public users has been helping to deepen their understanding of telecommunications services.
(2) Carriers concerned by this reporting
Information is gathered from those telecommunications carriers that are concerned by the reporting data as mandated by the ordinance.
With regard to the breakdown, it is as below, including some carriers that operate subsidiary businesses.
Fixed communications related: 29 companies
Mobile communications related: 35 companies
IP phone related: 43 companies
International phone related: 13 companies
NB: Since the unseen portion of the values has been adjusted upward or downward, there may be cases where totals and figures in the breakdowns do not add up, or that rates of growth or decline as shown in the figures do not correspond exactly to the actual numbers.
2. Trends in subscription contracts
(1) The total for fixed communications (subscription phones and ISDN) showed a decline of 7.1% year on year to 51.23 million contracts. Subscription phones were down 7.0% year on year to 44.78 million contracts and ISDN was down 7.8% year on year to 6.45 million contracts.
(2) The number of IP phone numbers in use was up 21.1% year on year to 17.54 million.
(3) The total for mobile communications (mobile phones and PHS) was up 5.5% year on year to 107.34 million contracts. Mobile phones were up 6.2% year on year to 102.72 million, and PHS was down 7.3% year on year to 4.61 million.
NB: With regard to the number of IP phone numbers in use, year on year change for the number of IP phone numbers in use, and year on year change for ISDN, the figures as given in the prompt reports (October 10, 2008) have been corrected.
3. Trends in domestic telecommunications
(1) The total number of communications for fiscal year 2007 was down 2.3% year on year to 117.11 billion.
(2) The total duration in time of communications in fiscal year 2007 was down 2.1% year on year to 4.24 billion hours.
Average number of calls and duration of communications per contract per day
Note 1: The top line shows the number of calls per day, the middle line shows the duration of communications per day, and the bottom line (in brackets) shows the average duration per communication.
Note 2: When making the calculations, the number of contracts was used as the operating value.
4. The number of communications within domestic telecommunications
(1) Looking at domestic communications by type of call, calls from fixed telephones were down 8.4% year on year to 54.63 billion calls, IP phone calls were up 25.7% year on year to 7.29 billion, mobile phone calls were up 1.4% year on year to 53.36 billion, and PHS calls were down 3.7% year on year to 1.82 billion.
(2) The ratio of communications calls by type of call shows calls from fixed telephones at 46.7%, those from mobile phones (including PHS) at 47.2%, and those from IP phones at 6.2%. The proportion of calls made from fixed telephones has been declining, with the proportion of IP phones increasing.
5. The duration of communications within domestic telecommunications
(1) Looking at the duration of domestic communications by type of call, calls made from fixed telephones accounted for 1,835 million hours, a drop of 11.0% year on year, calls made from IP phones were up 17.8% year on year, totaling 350 million hours, calls made from mobile phones were up 4.5% year on year, totaling 1,899 million hours, and calls made from PHS phones were up 1.5% year on year, totaling 153 million hours.
(2) The ratio of duration of communications by type of call shows calls from fixed telephones at 43.3%, calls from mobile phones (including PHS) at 48.4%, and calls from IP phones at 8.3%. As seen in the figures for the number of calls, the percentage of calls made from fixed telephones is declining, whereas the percentage for mobile phones and IP phones is increasing.
6. The state of reciprocal communications within domestic telecommunications
(1) Looking at the state of reciprocal communications within domestic communications in terms of numbers of communications, the proportion going from fixed to fixed terminals was 40.0%, with the proportion going from mobile to mobile terminal at 35.2%, and the proportion from IP phone to IP phone at 0.7%.
(2) Looking at the state of reciprocal communications within domestic communications in terms of duration of communications, the proportion going from fixed to fixed terminal was 38.0%, with the proportion going from mobile to mobile terminal at 39.3%, and the proportion from IP phone to IP phone at 1.1%.
Note 1: The “fixed terminal” category in the recipient column includes subscription phones, ISDN and pagers.
Note 2: For IP phones, mobile phones and PHS in the recipient column, it is not possible to distinguish between subscription phones, ISDN or public phones on the call side.
Note 3: The upper row shows the number of calls and the lower row (in parentheses) shows the percentage of total call numbers.
The state of reciprocal communications (duration of calls)
Note 1: The “fixed terminal” category in the recipient column includes subscription phones, ISDN and pagers.
Note 2: For IP phones, mobile phones and PHS in the recipient column, it is not possible to distinguish between subscription phones, ISDN or public phones on the call side.
Note 3: The upper row shows the number of calls and the lower row (in parentheses) shows the percentage of total call numbers.
7. Trends in international calls
(1) The number of calls in fiscal year 2007, including both outgoing and incoming, totaled 1,293.1 million calls, a decrease of 9.6% year on year. In addition, the duration of communications, including both outgoing and incoming, totaled 6,385.7 million minutes, an increase of 6.8% year on year.
(2) The average duration per call in fiscal year 2007 was 45 seconds later than in the previous fiscal year, for 4 minutes and 56 seconds.
(3) The number of outgoing calls in fiscal year 2007 totaled 739.6 million, with incoming calls totaling 553.5 million. In addition, the duration of outgoing calls totaled 4,287.5 million minutes, with incoming calls totaling 2,098.2 million minutes.
Average duration per call
Trends in the number of international calls by outgoing and incoming call
Trends in the duration of international calls by outgoing and incoming call
