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Japan's mobile phone users made 260,000 years' worth of calls in 2011

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Can anybody explain how this statistic has any bearing on our daily lives.

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"with conversations lasting 2.27 billion hours".

Wow, some of those chats were looooong!!

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NeverSubmit and Marcellito, these statistics are very important for estimating the system's load and availability and the remaining resource.

As you might (not) know, the radio spectrum is a limited resource, and it's management falls into the responsibility of the government. If not carefully monitored, chaos and disaster scenarios can occur. Just imagine not being able to make a phone call because of an overload. Technically, only about less than 10 % of the running phones are actually used to make a phone call at any given moment. The networks can take about 25%, and this can be shown as a number of years worth of conversation / year.

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2011 was a peak year for a well known reason, no wonder 2012 is more radio-silent.

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Is this a lot or a little?

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Its roughly 22 hours/person/year or 3.6 minutes/ day , assuming 100 Million out of 120 Million of Japanese population uses cell phone.

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NeverSubmit and Marcellito, these statistics are very important for estimating the system's load and availability and the remaining resource.

note that I said "our" daily lives.

These statistics may be useful for the technicians in Docomo but what are we, the general public supposed to do about it.

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and people in Japan wrote the equivalent of 100,000,000,000 kilometres with pens or pencils or markers, down from 120,000,000,000 kilometres the previous year which indicates that people are writing less.

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Big fricking do... that ends up being just 3 minutes a day for every person, or maybe 6 minutes a day for every active cellphone user. At normal data rates, that's just 4MB/day, which is practically nothing. I usually consume or four dozen times that a day.

And before people think it's off topic, the entire reason why they released this info is because of how it affects their networks on a data level.

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I would have enjoyed knowing the star system travel distance / time equivalency....lol.

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I wonder how many thousands of years people wish they could have back.

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