August 9, 2024 Estimates for Internet Traffic in Japan
Announcement of aggregate results as of May 2024

 The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) now publishes the results of the traffic (data volume) survey conducted for Japan’s fixed broadband internet services. In order to understand the actual situation, the survey was carried out in May 2024 with the cooperation of Internet Service providers (Note 1), Internet Exchanges (IXs) (Note 2), and researchers (Note 3).

Main points

 As of May 2024, the total download traffic for subscribers (Note 4) of Japan’s fixed broadband Internet service (Note 5) was estimated at approximately 36.0 Tbps (about 241.6 GB per contract per month (Note 6)), an increase of 18.1% from the volume of the same month of last year.

Aggregation results

 The results of traffic aggregation in May 2024 are as shown in the attached PDF document.
 In addition, the aggregate data related to this press release is available on the Information & Communications Statistics Database
(https://www.soumu.go.jp/johotsusintokei/field/data/gt010108.xlsx ), which opens in a new window.

• Note 1:
  Internet Initiative Japan Inc., NTT Communications Corporation, NTT DOCOMO Inc., OPTAGE Inc., KDDI Corporation, JCOM, Inc., SoftBank Corp., NIFTY Corporation, and BIGLOBE Inc.
• Note 2:
  Internet Multifeed Co., Equinix Japan K.K., Japan Internet Xing Co., Ltd., BBIX, Inc., and 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:
  Fixed broadband services for individual users (FTTH, DSL, CATV, and FWA)
• Note 5:
  Including some corporate subscribers
• Note 6:
  One month is calculated as 30.4375 days.