Japan currently possesses one of the most advanced communication networks in the world.

Telephones - main lines in use: 60.3 million (1997) This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Telephones - mobile cellular: 88.1 million (July 2004) Cellular redirects here. ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Telephone system: excellent domestic and international service according to CIA World Factbook

domestic: All major city to city lines are now fiber-optic and replacing copper wires to the home has started. Several IP phone companies have also begun their services providing low or fixed price phone services.

international: satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region), and 1 Inmarsat (Pacific and Indian Ocean regions); submerged cables to Mainland China, Philippines, Russia, and US (via Guam)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 190, FM 88, shortwave 24 (1999) Fiber Optic strands An optical fiber in American English or fibre in British English is a transparent thin fiber for transmitting light. ... What to say? Its a phone, but it encodes voice and transmits it via IP, using one of several CODECs, including G.711, G.728, and G.729. ... Intelsat is the worlds largest commercial satellite communications services provider. ... INMARSAT, is an international telecommunications company founded in 1979, originally as an intergovernmental organisation. ... In this map of China, the light-coloured areas represent Mainland China, while yellow coloured area refers to Taiwan. ... ... Am is the present-tense, first-person, singular form of the verb to be, the copula of the English language. ... The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... A Grundig Shortwave receiver Shortwave radio operates between the frequencies of 3,000 kHz and 30 MHz (30,000 kHz) and came to be referred to as such in the early days of radio because the wavelengths associated with this frequency range were shorter than those commonly in use at... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Radios: 120.5 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 7,108 (plus 441 repeaters; note - in addition, US Forces are served by 3 TV stations and 2 TV cable services) (1999)

Televisions: 86.5 million (1997)

Internet Service

• Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 357 (1999)
• Internet Service Providers via Cable Network: 334 (June 2004)
• Number of Portable Phone Users with the Internet Access: 71,044,000 (June 2004)

Number of Broadband Users by Access (April 2005) An Internet service provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... Broadband in general refers to data transmission where multiple pieces of data are sent simultaneously to increase the effective rate of transmission. ...

• Number of the xDSL Users: 13,675,840 lines
• Number of the FTTH Users: 2,852,205 lines
• Number of the CATV Service Users: 2,959,712 lines

Number of Broadband Users by Access (June 2004) Digital Subscriber Line, or DSL, is a family of technologies that provide a digital connection over the copper wires of the local telephone network. ... Fiber to the Home (FTTH) is a technology that allows Telephone, Cable TV and High Speed Internet to be accessed via one fiber cable. ... Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional... Broadband in general refers to data transmission where multiple pieces of data are sent simultaneously to increase the effective rate of transmission. ...

• Number of the xDSL Users: 12,068,718 lines
• Number of the FTTH Users: 1,417,483 lines
• Number of the CATV Service Users: 2,702,000 lines
• Number of the Dial-up Users: 17,730,000 lines

Number of Broadband Users by Access (June 2002) Digital Subscriber Line, or DSL, is a family of technologies that provide a digital connection over the copper wires of the local telephone network. ... Fiber to the Home (FTTH) is a technology that allows Telephone, Cable TV and High Speed Internet to be accessed via one fiber cable. ... Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional... In telecommunication, the term dial-up has the following meanings: Dial-up access, typically to the Internet A service feature in which a user initiates service on a previously arranged trunk or transfers, without human intervention, from an active trunk to a standby trunk. ... Broadband in general refers to data transmission where multiple pieces of data are sent simultaneously to increase the effective rate of transmission. ...

• Number of the xDSL Users: 3,300,926 lines
• Number of the FTTH Users: 84,903 lines
• Number of the CATV Service Users: 1852000 lines
• Number of the Dial-up Users: 20,390,000 lines

Country code (Top-level domain): JP Digital Subscriber Line, or DSL, is a family of technologies that provide a digital connection over the copper wires of the local telephone network. ... Fiber to the Home (FTTH) is a technology that allows Telephone, Cable TV and High Speed Internet to be accessed via one fiber cable. ... Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional... In telecommunication, the term dial-up has the following meanings: Dial-up access, typically to the Internet A service feature in which a user initiates service on a previously arranged trunk or transfers, without human intervention, from an active trunk to a standby trunk. ...

See also : Japan