End of the line

2008-7-3  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

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-- Adverstisement --

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.

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