Editing Communications in Japan (section)

===Telephone services===
'''Telephones and ISDN – main lines in use:''' 52.3981 million (2007)<ref name="soumu.go.jp">{{Cite web
| title = Status of Number of Subscribers to Telecommunications Services
| publisher = Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)
| url = http://www.soumu.go.jp/joho_tsusin/eng/Statistics/pdf/080227_1.pdf
| access-date = 19 March 2008 }}</ref>

'''[[IP phone]] lines in use:''' 16.766 million (2007)<ref name="soumu.go.jp"/>

'''Mobile and [[Personal Handy-phone System|PHS]] lines in use:''' 105.297 million (2007)<ref name="soumu.go.jp"/>
:''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 China, Philippines, Russia, and US (via [[Guam]])

====Mobile phone services====
{{Main|Mobile phone industry in Japan}}
There are four nationwide mobile phone service providers: [[NTT Docomo]], [[KDDI]], [[SoftBank]], and [[Rakuten Mobile]].