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Summary A total of 59.17 billion calls were made from cellphones in the 12 months to April 1, 2012.
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.
