The total number of contracts for fixed systems in both subscription telephony and ISDN services decreased by 2.6% compared to the previous fiscal year, resulting in a decrease for the second consecutive year.
By contrast, dry copper telephony marked a significant increase of approximately 6.8 times the number of subscription contracts at the end of fiscal year 2004, and CATV telephony showed a strong increase of 15.9% compared to the previous fiscal year.
(1000 contracts)
| Type |
End of Fiscal
Year 2001 |
End of Fiscal
Year 2002 |
End of Fiscal
Year 2003 |
End of Fiscal
Year 2004 |
End of
September 2005 |
End of
December 2005 |
End of
Fiscal Year 2005 |
| Subscription telephony |
50,998
(-2.4%) |
51,162
(0.3%) |
51,592
(0.8%) |
51,626
(0.1%) |
51,414 |
51,142 |
50,577
(-2.0%) |
| (Breakdown) |
Dry copper
telephony |
- |
- |
1
(-) |
383
(38,200%) |
1,414 |
1,958 |
2,613
(582.2%) |
CATV
telephony |
- |
- |
574
(-) |
853
(48.6%) |
909 |
952 |
989
(15.9%) |
| ISDN |
10,327
(6.5%) |
9,610
(-6.9%) |
8,627
(-10.2%) |
7,981
(-7.5%) |
7,753 |
7,639 |
7,498
(-6.1%) |
| (Breakdown) |
Dry copper
ISDN |
- |
- |
- |
23
(-) |
87 |
114 |
157
(582.6%) |
| Total |
61,325
(-1.0%) |
60,772
(-0.9%) |
60,219
(-0.9%) |
59,607
(-1.0%) |
59,167 |
58,781 |
58,075
(-2.6%) |
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| Note) |
Dry copper telephony refers to telephone services using metallic lines laid by NTT East and NTT West.
The number of contracts here does not include the number of My Line registrations.
Figures in parentheses indicates the increase/decrease compared with the previous year.
MIC has been tallying the data for each quarter term since September 2005.
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| (Contact) |
Persons in charge: Yokote, Assistant-Division Chief; Takenaka, Subdivision Chief, Service Section
Tariff Division, Telecommunications Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
TEL: 03 5253 5845
FAX: 03 5253 5848 |
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