To enable each user to always refer to required up-to-date information free of charge or at a low price and to enable an information provider to acquire new media as advertisement media and distribute information acting as an effective advertisement means.

Portable telephone terminal equipment 2 is connected to an information distribution server 1 for providing distributing information in each portable telephone base station 3 in the queuing time of the equipment 2 through a portable telephone exchange network 4 and the server 1 is constituted of a distributing information updating part 11 for receiving distributing information whose validity term and distribution area are restricted from an information provider, storing the received information in a distributing information storage part 12 and instructing the updating of the contents, a distributing information transmission part 13 for transmitting the distributing information stored in the storage part 12 to the target area only in the validity term and a customer information management part 14 for managing and charging the utilization history of an information category selected in each portable telephone terminal equipment user.