February 28, 2025 Estimates for Internet Traffic in Japan Announcement of aggregate results as of November 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 November 2024 with the cooperation of Internet Service providers (Note 1), Internet Exchanges (IXs) (Note 2), and researchers (Note 3).

1 Main Points

As of November 2024, the total download traffic for subscribers (Note 4) of Japan’s fixed broadband Internet service (Note 5) was estimated at approximately 38.9 Tbps (about 259.8 GB per contract per month (Note 6)), an increase of 12.7% from the volume of the same month of last year.

2 Aggregation results

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

3 Related press release materials

For past press materials, please see the following web page.
・ Estimates for Internet Traffic in Japan
（https://www.soumu.go.jp/joho_tsusin/eidsystem/market01_05_03.html）

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: Includes some corporate subscribers
Note 6: One month is calculated as 30.4375 days.