To provide a branching filter having a small size and a good filter characteristic, and electronic equipment using the branching filter.

The branching filter has a multi-layer package (20) accommodating therein a pair of surface acoustic wave filters (26) each having a different band center frequency and phase matching line for matching respective phases of the pair of the surface acoustic wave filters, a multi layer package is provided with a first ground pattern (37) with respect to the phase matching line on its mounting surface. As a ground layer with respect to the phase matching line is provided on the mounting surface of the multi layer package, this make it possible to easily and properly set the distance between one of the phase matching line and the ground pattern, to prevent from deterioration of a characteristic impedance of the phase matching line, and to improve the filter characteristic.