PROMPT REPORT on the number of subscribers of cellular telephone and PHS(Personal Handy-phone System) at the last day of December 2002 in Japan.

Cellular telephone		73,515,120 subscribers
PHS		5,568,154 subscribers
Total		79,083,274 subscribers

Contact Point : Tariff division,Telecommunications Bureau
E-mail : ido-tsushin@soumu.go.jp

*If you want to obtain data on Type I Telecommunications Business Carriers, number of subscribers in detail, visit TCA. (http://www.tca.or.jp/)