Japan mobile users make 260,000 years of calls

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.