State of Number of Subscriptions of Telecommunications Services

1.Subscribed telephone and ISDN

  The total number of telephone and ISDN subscriptions has been on a downward trend and was 35.168 million as of the end of June 2012. This is an 8.8% decrease compared with the same period the previous year. The total number of telephone and ISDN subscriptions of NTT East and NTT West was 30.649 million and has been on a downward trend.
 

2.Number of IP phone uses

  The number of IP phone uses was 29.218 million as of the end of June 2012, and it has been on a consecutive upward trend. It marked an increase of 10.6% compared with the same period of the previous year.
  Particularly, the number of uses of 0AB~J-IP phones marked a significant increase of 16.8% compared with the same period of the previous year.
 

3.Mobile phone and PHS

  The total number of mobile phone and PHS subscriptions was 134.607 million as of the end of June 2012 and this is a steady increase of 7.5% compared with the same period of the previous year. The penetration rate of mobile phones alone has continued to be over 100%, and has now reached 101.4%.
 
 

(Unit: One million subscriptions)
	Telephone and ISDN subscriptions	IP phone			Mobile phones and PHS
		Total	0AB~J-IP phones	050-IP phones
As of the end of June 2012	35.168	29.218	21.772	7.446	134.607
As of the end of June 2011	38.549	26.418	18.643	7.776	125.24
Number of increase/decrease	-3.382	2.800	3.129	-0.330	9.367
(Increase/decrease rate)	(-8.8%)	(10.6%)	(16.8%)	(-4.2%)	(7.5%)

 *The total of values and the total of breakdowns may not correspond as values less than the unit of indication are rounded