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Japan Mobile Users Make 260,000 Years of Calls

Japanese mobile phone users made a quarter of a million years' worth of calls last year, the government said on Wednesday.

A total of 59.17 billion calls were made from cellphones in the 12 months to April 1, 2012, with conversations lasting 2.27 billion hours, a communications ministry official said. The figure is equivalent to 259,132 years.

The total number of hours of talking actually fell 1.8 percent from a year earlier, said a spokeswoman.

The ministry has carried out the survey every year since 1992 to help with decisions on infrastructure investment.

Source: Agence France Presse


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