Mobile phones are gradually making land-line telephones a thing of the past in Japan. For the first time, fixed-line telephones accounted for less than half of all calls made in a fiscal year, losing out to mobile units and Internet-based services, a government report said this week.
Calls placed from fixed-line phones at home, offices or public phones fell 6.4 percent to 59.6 billion, some 49.7 percent of the total calls made in Japan between April 2006 and the end of March 2007, the report said. Mobile and Internet calls accounted for 50.3 percent.
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