A shape measuring apparatus for measuring an outer surface of a measurement object, includes: a photo-sensor unit including two photo-sensors each provided with a number of pixels, first and second signal processing sections which executes combination processing to light reception signals outputted from the photo-sensors. Such systems share common facilities including a router function, messaging function, and a common voice communications channel. For a large number of MBMS users being counted, the method will select a point-to-multipoint broadcast. The first server identifies events in the second server that affect or are of interest to services of the first server.