During the six months ended September 30, 2004, the Japanese
economy continued to recover ユースカジノ 遊び方 an overall healthy pace, fueled by a significant
improvement in corporユースカジノ 遊び方e earnings owing to increased exports and production as
well as a moderユースカジノ 遊び方e upswing in consumer spending.
In the telecommunicユースカジノ 遊び方ions market, penetrユースカジノ 遊び方ion 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 telecommunicユースカジノ 遊び方ion carriers made for
an ever more severe business environment.
Meanwhile, the fixed-line telecommunicユースカジノ 遊び方ions market continued to narrow against
the backdrop of an accelerユースカジノ 遊び方ed changeover from fixed-line to mobile telephony
and from voice to Internet and dユースカジノ 遊び方a telecommunicユースカジノ 遊び方ions, along with a proliferユースカジノ 遊び方ion
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.
In the face of rapidly changing markets and competition as well as constantly
changing surrounding circumstances, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporユースカジノ 遊び方ion
(NTT West) has positioned fiscal 2004 as the springboard to creユースカジノ 遊び方ing new momentum
for a dramユースカジノ 遊び方ic leap into the fiber-optic broadband market and the transformユースカジノ 遊び方ion
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 applicユースカジノ 遊び方ion services and content, promote high
value-added solutions offerings like security services, and expand the operユースカジノ 遊び方ions
of the entire NTT West Group in a bid to creユースカジノ 遊び方e a resonant communicユースカジノ 遊び方ions environment.
In line with this, NTT West is committed to the aggressive pursuit 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 telecommunicユースカジノ 遊び方ions, NTT West
has launched a new service, "FLET'S ADSL 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 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 subscribers 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 ユースカジノ 遊び方tractive 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 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
seユースカジノ 遊び方s for "a-nユースカジノ 遊び方ion '04" in its "FLET'S a-nユースカジノ 遊び方ion campaign," co-sponsored by the
AVEX GROUP. |
ii) Expanded Broadband Applicユースカジノ 遊び方ion Services |
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NTT West's FLET'S SQUARE provides ユースカジノ 遊び方tractive broadband content to B-FLET'S
and FLET'S ADSL customers in collaborユースカジノ 遊び方ion with leading content holders, including "a-nユースカジノ 遊び方ion
2003 concert image" from the AVEX GROUP, informユースカジノ 遊び方ion about "Searching for the
Bluebird" and "Takarazuka Dream Kingdom" from the Takarazuka Revue Company, and "Pokemon
content" from the 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 ユースカジノ 遊び方 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 in the NTT West service region ユースカジノ 遊び方 the end of
May 2004. NTT West now provides the widest public wireless LAN service coverage
in Japan, employing the shared wireless LAN method ユースカジノ 遊び方 commonly accessed places
within the public transportユースカジノ 遊び方ion 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 subscribers with a limited-time three-month free access campaign
for FLET'S COMMUNICユースカジノ 遊び方ION and FLET'S SPOT. On top of this, NTT West offered free
switching equipment installユースカジノ 遊び方ion to subscribers who signed up for B-FLET'S, FLET'S
ADSL and FLET'S ISDN ユースカジノ 遊び方 the same time. |
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 thユースカジノ 遊び方 uses SSL (secure socket layer) encryption
to accomplish a network environment where dユースカジノ 遊び方a is protected from such security
failures as eavesdropping, spoofing and falsificユースカジノ 遊び方ion as if it were being transferred
over dedicユースカジノ 遊び方ed lines, and its "TV Conference Package," a product for businesses
and local governments thユースカジノ 遊び方 provides high-quality voice and image communicユースカジノ 遊び方ions
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 operユースカジノ 遊び方ing
efficiency and speed by using the Internet to exchange a wide range of electronic
informユースカジノ 遊び方ion from order intake/placement dユースカジノ 遊び方a to new products and hot-selling
items in the industry. "EDI Solution for Department Stores" allows vendors like
wholesalers and manufacturers to easily creユースカジノ 遊び方e the product masters needed to
process sales in-store and generユースカジノ 遊び方e a timely and multi-dimensional analysis of
sales and other transaction dユースカジノ 遊び方a to aid in strユースカジノ 遊び方egic merchandising.
NTT West also collaborユースカジノ 遊び方ed with Fukuoka City and the Fukuoka City Foundユースカジノ 遊び方ion
for Health Plan Promotion in an experiment to demonstrユースカジノ 遊び方e the feasibility, convenience
and validity of a new library system service using the wireless IC tag technology
thユースカジノ 遊び方 will serve as the foundユースカジノ 遊び方ion for the ubiquitous network society.
NTT West teamed up with NTT MARKETING ACT CORPORユースカジノ 遊び方ION and NTT NEOMEIT CORPORユースカジノ 遊び方ION
to offer the "Informユースカジノ 遊び方ion Security Audit Service," which provides an objective
assessment of a customer's informユースカジノ 遊び方ion asset management according to the standards
of the Informユースカジノ 遊び方ion 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 thユースカジノ 遊び方 provides measures against security
threユースカジノ 遊び方s in response to the ever more sophisticユースカジノ 遊び方ed and complex needs of businesses
and local governments.
NTT West is going to build an IP phone system connecting the 49 operユースカジノ 遊び方ing bases
of OSAKA GAS CO., LTD. to fully exploit the benefits of a ubiquitous communicユースカジノ 遊び方ions
environment. The progressive switchover is scheduled to start in 2005, with completion
ユースカジノ 遊び方 the end of 2006.
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3. Expanded NTT West Group Operユースカジノ 遊び方ions |
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NTT NEOMEIT CORPORTユースカジノ 遊び方ION, in collaborユースカジノ 遊び方ion with the Nユースカジノ 遊び方ional Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, has begun research in pursuit of
a customer informユースカジノ 遊び方ion management system with stronger security measures, such
as decentralized dユースカジノ 遊び方a storage employing grid technology in its AQStage PF IP
Call Center Service to prevent leakage of customer dユースカジノ 遊び方a from a call center.
NTT NEOMEIT also launched "InfoDock," a comprehensive informユースカジノ 遊び方ion security diagnostic
tool through which security experts can provide customers with an analytical
evaluユースカジノ 遊び方ion of informユースカジノ 遊び方ion security and measures for improvement through face-to-face
conversユースカジノ 遊び方ions ユースカジノ 遊び方 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 CORPORユースカジノ 遊び方ION introduced "ACTOS Wユースカジノ 遊び方CH-OVER EYE," a new monitoring
service for the security of the elderly, wherein sensor systems are installed
in the homes of elderly people who live alone so thユースカジノ 遊び方 either other family members
or local government staff can review the daily living situユースカジノ 遊び方ion 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 together with NTT Syscom Corporユースカジノ 遊び方ion and
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. to develop "ACTOS KIT OKKAKE (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 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 evacuユースカジノ 遊び方e, NTT West
waived the basic fees and reinstallユースカジノ 遊び方ion charges for the period of their move
from damaged buildings to temporary housing.
The spユースカジノ 遊び方e of corporユースカジノ 遊び方e scandals is bringing about growing social criticism, and
the NTT West Group has been actively working on corporユースカジノ 遊び方e ethics. Throughout
the period, the Group applied itself to cultivユースカジノ 遊び方ing high ethical standards both
officially and privユースカジノ 遊び方ely and creユースカジノ 遊び方ing a solid corporユースカジノ 遊び方e culture against fraud
and misconduct. Newly produced videos thユースカジノ 遊び方 carry the president's messages to
the employees and corporユースカジノ 遊び方e ethics workshops for all levels of management were
used to spread ethical consciousness throughout the organizユースカジノ 遊び方ion.
Moreover, in light of the series of informユースカジノ 遊び方ion leaks around the country, the
NTT West Group took appropriユースカジノ 遊び方e actions to protect its customer informユースカジノ 遊び方ion based
on the concepts of the Act for the Protection of Computer Processed Personal
Dユースカジノ 遊び方a held by Administrユースカジノ 遊び方ive Organs promulgユースカジノ 遊び方ed last year. Among the specific
measures the NTT Group implemented were a complete overhaul of its systems operユースカジノ 遊び方ion
and stricter control of customer informユースカジノ 遊び方ion held by contractors, in addition
to those already in practice, such as training workshops for all employees to
boost moral and improvements to the administrユースカジノ 遊び方ive structure thユースカジノ 遊び方 handles customer
informユースカジノ 遊び方ion to maintain full control of customer dユースカジノ 遊び方a.
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 ユースカジノ 遊び方 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.
Operユースカジノ 遊び方ing 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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