The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will greatly improve mobile phone "out of the range"

Even now, even though cellular phones have become widespread, there are places where "cellular phones are unable to communicate" in some parts of rural areas, but the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications seems to make a major improvement.

It may be good news for those who were having trouble getting the radio waves when going home to the parents' house or on business trips to the district.

Details are as follows.
Portable 'Out of service' population, reducing to 50,000 people Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications drastically policy - 47 NEWS (Yona no Toshi news)

According to the report of Kyodo News Agency, Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications announced policy to reduce the number of people living in the area where mobile phones can not communicate from about 300,000 as of the end of March 2008 to about 50,000 by the end of March 2011 It seems to have made it.

This is to install simple base stations and satellite mobile phones that cost only about one-fifth of installation cost by utilizing the subsidies of the national government and local governments, and we plan to summarize new plans next February I will.

Incidentally NTT DoCoMo on January 6, 2009It is said that the population coverage rate of FOMA high-speed area has reached 100%However, since "population coverage rate" is calculated based on whether communication is possible at the location where the corresponding municipal office is located, there seems to be an area where communication can not be made even within the same municipality.