February 21, 2024 Aggregation and Provisional Calculation of Internet Traffic in Japan Announcement of traffic aggregation results for November 2023

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has compiled and now publishes the results of the traffic (data volume) survey conducted for Japan’s fixed broadband internet. In order to understand the actual traffic situation, the survey was carried out in November 2023 with the cooperation of Internet Service Providers (Note 1), Internet Exchanges (Note 2), and researchers (Note 3).

Main points
As of November 2023, the total download traffic for subscribers (Note 4) of Japan’s fixed broadband Internet service (Note 5) was estimated at approximately 34.5 Tbps (about 232.4 GB per contract per month (Note 6)), an increase of 18.1% from the volume of the same month of last year.

Note 1: Internet Initiative Japan Inc., NTT Communications Corporation, NTT DOCOMO Inc., OPTAGE Inc., KDDI Corporation, JCOM Co., Ltd., SoftBank Corp., NIFTY Corporation, and BIGLOBE Inc.
Note 2: Internet Multifeed Co., Equinix, Inc., Japan Internet Xing Co., Ltd., BBIX, Inc., and the WIDE Project
Note 3: ESAKI Hiroshi (Professor, University of Tokyo), KATO Akira (Professor, Keio University), SEKIYA Yuji (Professor, University of Tokyo), CHO Kenjiro (Research Director, IIJ Research Laboratory), and FUKUDA Kensuke (Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics)
Note 4: Including some corporate subscribers
Note 5: Fixed broadband services for individual users (FTTH, DSL, CATV, and FWA)
Note 6: One month is calculated as 30.4375 days.

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