They say the 19th of every month is toku no hi (トークの日), Day of Talk, because 19 is 10 plus 9 and they are read as to(10) ku (9). Toku means English word talk. This day was decided by NTT (Nippon denshin denwa kabushikigaisha: 日本電信電話株式会社) Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation in 1986. They wanted people to talk by the phone.
NTT started the mobile phone service in 1987. Since 2000 mobile phones have become multifunction. The top three mobile phone service companies are NTT Docomo (54,320,000 contracts, 48.9%), au by KDDI (30,610,000 contracts, 28.8%), and Softbank mobile (20,120,000 contracts, 18.2%).
How often do you use the phone or the mobile phone? I use more emails and test messages than phones themselves, but I use SKYPE every day at home to talk friends abroad.
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