{"id":328,"date":"2008-12-23T03:34:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T10:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/?p=328"},"modified":"2008-12-23T03:34:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T10:34:04","slug":"japanese-ministry-of-communications-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/23\/japanese-ministry-of-communications-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Ministry of Communications report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIC &#8211; Japanese Ministry of Internal affairs and Communications recently issued a Statistics report on Subscribers to Telecommunications Services. The report is interesting, but not very surprising:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The total number of contracts for subscriber telephones (and ISDN) is decreasing, as of the end of Sep. 2008 was 49.539 Million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-329\" title=\"Landline phones - Japan \" src=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/landline.jpg\" alt=\"Landline phones - Japan \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mobile Phones (and PHS) are on the rise, with 109.420 Million Subscribers. The only PHS provider is Willcom:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331\" title=\"Mobile Users Japan \" src=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/mobile1.jpg\" alt=\"Mobile Users Japan \" \/><\/p>\n<p>The only part that was a bit surprising is the adoption of IP telephony. In the past I have suggested my wife to use a 050 IP phone for our communication with Japan, and she objected claiming that Japanese do not want to call 050 phones as they are &#8220;strange&#8221; and &#8220;different&#8221; than the normal numbering plan. Guess what, she was wrong:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The number of IP phone users as of the end of September 2008 was 19.047 million. This is an 18.2%<br \/>\nincrease from the same period of last year, and this increasing trend continues. The increase in the<br \/>\nusers of IP phones with the 0AB-J number structure (10 digits, starting with a zero) is especially<br \/>\nremarkable, with a 60.6% year-on-year increase<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332\" title=\"IP Phones usage - Japan \" src=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ipphones.jpg\" alt=\"IP Phones usage - Japan \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIC &#8211; Japanese Ministry of Internal affairs and Communications recently issued a Statistics report on Subscribers to Telecommunications Services. The report is interesting, but not very surprising: The total number of contracts for subscriber telephones (and ISDN) is decreasing, as of the end of Sep. 2008 was 49.539 Million. Mobile Phones (and PHS) are on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/23\/japanese-ministry-of-communications-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Japanese Ministry of Communications report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}