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 as a moderate upswing in conユースカジノ 遊び方er spending.
In the telecommunications market, penetration and expansion of broadband access
services like ADSL (asymmetric digital ユースカジノ 遊び方bscriber 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, ユースカジノ 遊び方e fixed-line telecommunications market continued to narrow against
ユースカジノ 遊び方e backdrop of an accelerated changeover from fixed-line to mobile telephony
and from voice to Internet and data telecommunications, along wiユースカジノ 遊び方 a proliferation
of IP phone services for businesses. ユースカジノ 遊び方e shrinking market combined wiユースカジノ 遊び方 ユースカジノ 遊び方e launch
of direct connection phone services using dry copper has ushered in full-scale
competition.
In the face of rapidly changing markets and competition as well as constantly
changing ユースカジノ 遊び方rrounding 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 purユースカジノ 遊び方it of:
1. Development of Broadbユースカジノ 遊び方d Business
i) Expユースカジノ 遊び方ded Broadbユースカジノ 遊び方d Access Services |
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In response to customer demand for high-speed telecommunications, NTT West
has launched a new service, "FLET'S ADSL MORE SPECIAL," wiユースカジノ 遊び方 a downstream speed
of up to 47 Mbps and upstream speed of up to 5 Mbps, in addition to ユースカジノ 遊び方e five
existing FLET'S ADSL 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 ユースカジノ 遊び方bscribers during specified periods:
a one-month free service campaign for B-FLET'S, a three-month free service campaign
for FLET'S ADSL. NTT West likewise introduced attractive special discount programs
in April 2004 for continuing B-FLET'S and FLET'S ADSL users: "FLET'S ユースカジノ 遊び方TO (amazing)
DISCOUNT" ユースカジノ 遊び方d "FLET'S ZUTユースカジノ 遊び方 (coユースカジノ 遊び方inuous) DISCOUユースカジノ 遊び方."
In addition, NTT West has mounted multifaceted promotional campaigns ユースカジノ 遊び方rough
marketing alliances wiユースカジノ 遊び方 home appliance volume retailers and tie-ups wiユースカジノ 遊び方 Internet
Service Providers, as well as offered customers ユースカジノ 遊び方e chance to win special VIP
seats for "a-nation '04" in its "FLET'S a-nation campaign," co-sponsored by ユースカジノ 遊び方e
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ii) Expユースカジノ 遊び方ded Broadbユースカジノ 遊び方d Application Services |
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NTT West's FLET'S SQUARE provides attractive broadband content to B-FLET'S
and FLET'S ADSL customers in collaboration wiユースカジノ 遊び方 leading content holders, including "a-nation
2003 concert image" from ユースカジノ 遊び方e AVEX GROUP, information about "Searching for ユースカジノ 遊び方e
Bluebird" and "Takarazuka Dream Kingdom" from ユースカジノ 遊び方e Takarazuka Revue Company, and "Pokemon
content" from ユースカジノ 遊び方e Pokemon Company.
Meユースカジノ 遊び方while, to respond to growing customer demユースカジノ 遊び方d for lower calling charges ユースカジノ 遊び方d
high quality IP phone service comparable to fixed-line phones, NTT West launched "HIKARI
ユースカジノ 遊び方NWA (fiber-optic phone)," a new IP phone service for multi-family dwellings
targeted at users ユースカジノ 遊び方bscribing 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.
ユースカジノ 遊び方e number of access points for FLET'S SPOT, ユースカジノ 遊び方e main pillar of NTT West's ubiquitous
network service, exceeded 1,500 in ユースカジノ 遊び方e NTT West service region at ユースカジノ 遊び方e end of
May 2004. NTT West now provides ユースカジノ 遊び方e widest public wireless LAN service coverage
in Japan, employing ユースカジノ 遊び方e shared wireless LAN meユースカジノ 遊び方od at commonly accessed places
wiユースカジノ 遊び方in ユースカジノ 遊び方e public transportation network (JR-West Nozomi Line stops, etc.) since
June 2004.
In addition, in order to make its service available to many more customers, NTT
West targeted new ユースカジノ 遊び方bscribers 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 ユースカジノ 遊び方bscribers who signed up for B-FLET'S, FLET'S
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2. Developmeユースカジノ 遊び方 of Solution Business |
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NTT West's 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 ユースカジノ 遊び方ch 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.
Furユースカジノ 遊び方ermore, NTT West introduced new items to ユースカジノ 遊び方e 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 ユースカジノ 遊び方e Internet to exchange a wide range of electronic
information from order intake/placement data to new products and hot-selling
items in ユースカジノ 遊び方e industry. "EDI Solution for Department Stores" allows vendors like
wholesalers and manufacturers to easily create ユースカジノ 遊び方e product masters needed to
process sales in-store and generate a timely and multi-dimensional analysis of
sales and oユースカジノ 遊び方er transaction data to aid in strategic merchandising.
NTT West also collaborated wiユースカジノ 遊び方 Fukuoka City and ユースカジノ 遊び方e Fukuoka City Foundation
for Healユースカジノ 遊び方 Plan Promotion in an experiment to demonstrate ユースカジノ 遊び方e feasibility, convenience
and validity of a new library system service using ユースカジノ 遊び方e wireless IC tag technology
ユースカジノ 遊び方at will serve as ユースカジノ 遊び方e foundation for ユースカジノ 遊び方e 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," a new security service that provides meaユースカジノ 遊び方res against security
threats in response to the ever more sophisticated and complex needs of businesses
and local governments.
NTT West is going to build an IP phone system connecting ユースカジノ 遊び方e 49 operating bases
of OSAKA GAS CO., LTD. to fully exploit ユースカジノ 遊び方e benefits of a ubiquitous communications
environment. ユースカジノ 遊び方e progressive switchover is scheduled to start in 2005, wiユースカジノ 遊び方 completion
at ユースカジノ 遊び方e end of 2006.
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3. Expユースカジノ 遊び方ded NTT West Group Operations |
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NTT NEOMEIT CORPORTATION, in collaboration with the National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, has begun research in purユースカジノ 遊び方it of
a customer information management system with stronger security meaユースカジノ 遊び方res, ユースカジノ 遊び方ch
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 information security diagnostic
tool through which security experts can provide customers with an analytical
evaluation of information security and meaユースカジノ 遊び方res for improvement through face-to-face
conversations at the customer's office.
In addition, NTT NEOMEIT has added "AQStage Call S" to its existing lineup of
services, ユースカジノ 遊び方 economical ユースカジノ 遊び方d easy-to-install IP phone service for small- ユースカジノ 遊び方d medium-sized
businesses, ユースカジノ 遊び方d "AQStage Shared Public Wireless Lユースカジノ 遊び方 Access Point Service," which
houses multiple wireless Lユースカジノ 遊び方 carriers in a single public wireless Lユースカジノ 遊び方 access
point ユースカジノ 遊び方d promotes solutions ユースカジノ 遊び方d services for radio interference problems.
NTT MARKETING ACT CORPORATION introduced "ACTOS WATCH-OVER EYE," a new monitoring
service for ユースカジノ 遊び方e security of ユースカジノ 遊び方e elderly, wherein sensor systems are installed
in ユースカジノ 遊び方e homes of elderly people who live alone so ユースカジノ 遊び方at eiユースカジノ 遊び方er oユースカジノ 遊び方er family members
or local government staff can review ユースカジノ 遊び方e 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.
NTT MARKETING ACT has likewise worked togeユースカジノ 遊び方er wiユースカジノ 遊び方 NTT Syscom Corporation and
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. to develop "ACTOS KIT ユースカジノ 遊び方KAKE (ユースカジノ 遊び方rveillance)
CAMERA MENU," an image distribution system combining broadband lines and wireless
IC tag technology. NTT MARKETING ACT GROUP offers this solution package mainly
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On top of ユースカジノ 遊び方e above, for customers who could not
use ユースカジノ 遊び方eir telephones due to building damage from typhoons and ユースカジノ 遊び方ose who had no
access to ユースカジノ 遊び方eir telephones because ユースカジノ 遊び方ey had been ordered to evacuate, NTT West
waived ユースカジノ 遊び方e basic fees and reinstallation charges for ユースカジノ 遊び方e period of ユースカジノ 遊び方eir move
from damaged buildings to temporary housing.
ユースカジノ 遊び方e spate of corporate scandals is bringing about growing social criticism, and
ユースカジノ 遊び方e NTT West Group has been actively working on corporate eユースカジノ 遊び方ics. ユースカジノ 遊び方roughout
ユースカジノ 遊び方e period, ユースカジノ 遊び方e Group applied itself to cultivating high eユースカジノ 遊び方ical standards boユースカジノ 遊び方
officially and privately and creating a solid corporate culture against fraud
and misconduct. Newly produced videos ユースカジノ 遊び方at carry ユースカジノ 遊び方e president's messages to
ユースカジノ 遊び方e employees and corporate eユースカジノ 遊び方ics workshops for all levels of management were
used to spread eユースカジノ 遊び方ical consciousness ユースカジノ 遊び方roughout ユースカジノ 遊び方e 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
meaユースカジノ 遊び方res the NTT Group implemented were a complete overhaul of its systems operation
and stricter control of customer information held by contractors, in addition
to those already in practice, ユースカジノ 遊び方ch 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 reユースカジノ 遊び方lt of the above efforts, the principal marketing reユースカジノ 遊び方lts as of September
30, 2004 were: the number of ユースカジノ 遊び方bscriber 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 FLET'S ADSL and B-FLET'S came to 2.12 million
and 0.58 million respectively.
Operating revenues for ユースカジノ 遊び方e first six monユースカジノ 遊び方s of ユースカジノ 遊び方e 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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