During the six months ended September 30, 2004, the Japanese
economy continued to recover at an overall healthy pace, fueled by a significant
improvement in corporate earnings owing to increased exports and production as
well ユースカジノ 遊び方 moderate upswing in consumer spending.
ユースカジノ 遊び方 telecommunications market, penetration and expansion of broadband access
services like ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) and optical lines are
gaining momentum in step with the advanced and diversified demands of users in
an increasingly globalized world. Nevertheless, intensifying competition for
customers in both prices and services among telecommunication carriers made for
an ever more severe business environment.
Meanwhile, the fixed-line telecommunications market continued to narrow against
the backdrop of an accelerated changeover from fixed-line to mobile telephony
and from voice to Internet and data telecommunications, along ユースカジノ 遊び方 proliferation
of IP phone services for businesses. The shrinking market combined with the launch
of direct connection phone services using dry copper has ushered in full-scale
competition.
ユースカジノ 遊び方 face of rapidly changing markets and competition as well as constantly
changing surrounding circumstances, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation
(NTT West) has positioned fiscal 2004 as the springboard to creating new momentum
for a dramatic leap into the fiber-optic broadband market and the transformation
of its revenue structure from telephone-based to IP-based. Toward this end, NTT
West has been aggressive in its efforts to take full advantage of the characteristics
of fiber optics to enrich its application services and content, promote high
value-added solutions offerings like security services, and expand the operations
of the entire NTT West Group in a bid to create a resonant communications environment.
In line with this, NTT West is committed to the aggressive pursuit of:
1. ユースカジノ 遊び方 Broadband Business
i) ユースカジノ 遊び方 Access Services |
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In response to customer demand for high-speed telecommunications, NTT West
has launched a new service, "ユースカジノ 遊び方 MORE SPECIAL," with a downstream speed
of up to 47 Mbps and upstream speed of up to 5 Mbps, in addition to the five
existing ユースカジノ 遊び方 plans: MORE 40, MORE 24, MORE, 8M PLAN and 1.5M PLAN.
Also, in order to make the FLET'S service available to a wider range of customers,
NTT West offered special plans limited to new subscribers during specified periods:
a one-month free service campaign for B-FLET'S, a three-month free service campaign
for ユースカジノ 遊び方. NTT West likewise introduced attractive special discount programs
in April 2004 for continuing B-FLET'S and ユースカジノ 遊び方 users: "FLET'SATTO(amazing)
DISCOUNT" and "FLET'SZUTTO(continuous) DISCOUNT."
ユースカジノ 遊び方, NTT West has mounted multifaceted promotional campaigns through
marketing alliances with home appliance volume retailers and tie-ups with Internet
Service Providers, as well as offered customers the chance to win special VIP
seats for "a-nation '04" in its "FLET'S a-nation campaign," co-sponsored by the
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ii) ユースカジノ 遊び方 Application Services |
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NTT West's FLET'S SQUARE provides attractive broadband content to B-FLET'S
and ユースカジノ 遊び方 customers in collaboration with leading content holders, including "a-nation
2003 concert image" from the AVEX GROUP, information about "Searching for the
Bluebird" and "Takarazuka Dream Kingdom" from the Takarazuka Revue Company, and "Pokemon
content" from the Pokemon Company.
Meanwhile, to respond to growing customer demand for lower calling charges and
high quality IP phone service comparable to fixed-line phones, ユースカジノ 遊び方 launched "HIKARI
DENWA(fiber-optic phone)," ユースカジノ 遊び方 IP phone service for multi-family dwellings
targeted at users subscribing to B-FLET'S Condominium Type. This service allows
customers to keep their existing telephone numbers, make emergency calls to 110,
118 and 119 services, and access toll-free numbers.
The number of access points for FLET'S SPOT, the main pillar of NTT West's ubiquitous
network service, exceeded 1,500 ユースカジノ 遊び方 NTT West service region at the end of
May 2004. NTT West now provides the widest public wireless LAN service coverage
in Japan, employing the shared wireless LAN method at commonly accessed places
withユースカジノ 遊び方 public transportation network (JR-West Nozomi Line stops, etc.) since
June 2004.
ユースカジノ 遊び方, in order to make its service available to many more customers, NTT
West targeted new subscribers with a limited-time three-month free access campaign
for FLET'S COMMUNICATION and FLET'S SPOT. On top of this, NTT West offered free
switching equipment installation to subscribers who signed up for B-FLET'S, FLET'S
ADSL and FLET'S ISDN at the same time. |
2. ユースカジノ 遊び方 Solution Business |
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ユースカジノ 遊び方 prosol Series provides customized system solutions to a wide range
of customers according to their type of business. To enhance its lineup of Internet
VPN Solutions on its N.prosol menu, the optimum total network solution, NTT West
added the "SSL-VPN Solution," a product that uses SSL (secure socket layer) encryption
to accomplish a network environment where data is protected from such security
failures as eavesdropping, spoofing and falsification as if it were being transferred
over dedicated lines, and its "TV Conference Package," a product for businesses
and local governments that provides high-quality voice and image communications
cheaply and swiftly via broadband lines like B-FLET'S.
Furthermore, NTT West introduced new items to the lineup for "C.prosol," a total
solution for optimizing commerce (commercial transaction cycles) for business.
NTT West's "Shared EDI Solution for Liquor Businesses" promises increased operating
efficiency and speed by using the Internet to exchange a wide range of electronic
information from order intake/placement data to new products and hot-selling
items ユースカジノ 遊び方 industry. "EDI Solution for Department Stores" allows vendors like
wholesalers and manufacturers to easily create the product masters needed to
process sales in-store and generate a timely and multi-dimensional analysis of
sales and other transaction data to aid in strategic merchandising.
NTT West also collaborated with Fukuoka City and the Fukuoka City Foundation
for Health Plan Promotion in an experiment to demonstrate the feasibility, convenience
and validity of ユースカジノ 遊び方 library system service using the wireless IC tag technology
that will serve as the foundation for the ubiquitous network society.
NTT West teamed up with NTT MARKETING ACT CORPORATION and NTT NEOMEIT CORPORATION
to offer the "Information Security Audit Service," which provides an objective
assessment of a customer's information asset management according to the standards
of the Information Security Audits of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
NTT West also worked together with Trend Micro Inc. to introduce the "Training
in Fighting Spam," ユースカジノ 遊び方 security service that provides measures against security
threats in response to the ever more sophisticated and complex needs of businesses
and local governments.
ユースカジノ 遊び方 going to build an IP phone system connecting the 49 operating bases
of OSAKA GAS CO., LTD. to fully exploit the benefits of a ubiquitous communications
environment. The progressive switchover is scheduled to start in 2005, with completion
at the end of 2006.
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3. Expanded ユースカジノ 遊び方 Group Operations |
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ユースカジノ 遊び方 CORPORTATION, in collaboration with the National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, has begun research in pursuit of
a customer information management system with stronger security measures, such
as decentralized data storage employing grid technology in its AQStage PF IP
Call Center Service to prevent leakage of customer data from a call center.
NTT NEOMEIT also launched "InfoDock," a comprehensive ユースカジノ 遊び方 diagnostic
tool through which security experts can provide customers with an analytical
evaluation of ユースカジノ 遊び方 and measures for improvement through face-to-face
conversations at the customer's office.
ユースカジノ 遊び方, NTT NEOMEIT has added "AQStage Call S" to its existing lineup of
services, an economical and easy-to-install IP phone service for small- and medium-sized
businesses, and "AQStage Shared Public Wireless LAN Access Point Service," which
houses multiple wireless LAN carriers in a single public wireless LAN access
point and promotes solutions and services for radio interference problems.
NTT MARKETING ACT CORPORATION introduced "ACTOS WATCH-OVER EYE," a new monitoring
service for the security of the elderly, wherein sensor systems are installed
ユースカジノ 遊び方 homes of elderly people who live alone so that either other family members
or local government staff can review the daily living situation from a distance
via personal computer and an e-mail message can be transmitted to a pre-registered
contact if a problem is detected.
ユースカジノ 遊び方 has likewise worked together with NTT Syscom Corporation and
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. to develop "ACTOS KITOKKAKE(surveillance)
CAMERA MENU," an image distribution system combining broadband lines and wireless
IC tag technology. ユースカジノ 遊び方 GROUP offers this solution package mainly
to kindergartens and nursery schools. |
On top of the above, for customers who could not
use their telephones due to building damage from typhoons and those who had no
access to their telephones because they had been ordered to evacuate, ユースカジノ 遊び方
waived the basic fees and reinstallation charges for the period of their move
from damaged buildings to temporary housing.
The spate of corporate scandals is bringing about growing social criticism, and
the ユースカジノ 遊び方 Group has been actively working on corporate ethics. Throughout
the period, the Group applied itself to cultivating high ethical standards both
officially and privately and creating a solid corporate culture against fraud
and misconduct. Newly produced videos that carry the president's messages to
the employees and corporate ethics workshops for all levels of management were
used to spread ethical consciousness throughout the organization.
Moreover, in light of the series of information leaks around the country, the
NTT West Group took appropriate actions to protect its customer information based
on the concepts of the Act for the Protection of Computer Processed Personal
Data held by Administrative Organs promulgated last year. Among the specific
measures the NTT Group implemented were a complete overhaul of its systems operation
and stricter control of customer information held by contractors, ユースカジノ 遊び方
to those already in practice, such as training workshops for all employees to
boost moral and improvements to the administrative structure that handles customer
information to maintain full control of customer data.
As a result of the above efforts, the principal marketing results as of September
30, 2004 were: the number of subscriber telephone lines installed stood at 25.65
million; in INS-Net services, the number of INS-Net 64 lines installed totaled
3.98 million; and the number of ユースカジノ 遊び方 and B-FLET'S came to 2.12 million
and 0.58 million respectively.
Operating revenues for the first six months of the fiscal year ending March 31,
2005 was 129.1 billion yen, recurring profit, 53.4 billion yen, and net income,
31.5 billion yen. |
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