State of Number of Telecommunications Service Subscriptions

  The outline is as follows.
 

1.Subscribed telephones and ISDN

  The total number of telephone and ISDN subscriptions has been on a downward trend and was 34.328 million as of the end of September 2012. This is an 8.9% decrease compared with the same period of the previous year. The total number of telephone and ISDN subscriptions of NTT East and NTT West was 29.903 million and has also been on a downward trend.
 

2.Number of IP phone uses

  The number of IP phone uses was 29.827 million as of the end of September 2012, and it has been on a consecutive upward trend. It marked an increase of 10.3% compared with the same period of the previous year.
  Particularly, the number of uses of 0AB~J-IP phones marked a significant increase of 15.9% compared with the same period of the previous year.
 

3.Mobile phones and PHS

  The total number of mobile phones and PHS subscription was 136.787 million as of the end of September 2012, and this is a steady increase of 7.5% compared with the same period of the previous year. The number of 3.9G mobile phone subscriptions was 7.289 million, accounting for 5.5% of the total number of mobile phone subscriptions.

 

(Unit: 10,000)
	Subscription telephones and ISDN	IP phones			Mobile phones and PHS
		Total	0AB~J-IP phones	050-IP phones
As of the end of September 2012	3,432.8	2,982.7	2,251.2	731.5	13,678.7
As of the end of September 2011	3,766.0	2,704.8	1,941.8	763.0	12,728.1
Number of increase/decrease	-333.2	277.9	309.4	-31.5	950.6
(Increase/decrease rate)	(-8.9%)	(10.3%)	(15.9%)	(-4.1%)	(7.5%)

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