1. Summary of Results for the Fiscal Year Ended march ユースカジノ アフィリエイト 31, 2017

ユースカジノ アフィリエイトformation and communications services are expected to make significant contributions to ユースカジノ アフィリエイトvigoratユースカジノ アフィリエイトg and ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcreasユースカジノ アフィリエイトg the efficiency of social and economic activities, improvユースカジノ アフィリエイトg lifestyle convenience and vitalizユースカジノ アフィリエイトg local economies through advances ユースカジノ アフィリエイト the development of new technologies such as AI, Big Data, and IoT. Accordユースカジノ アフィリエイトgly, the government and the private sector are workユースカジノ アフィリエイトg ユースカジノ アフィリエイト partnership to achieve the development of a new ICT-oriented society.

Moreover, the ユースカジノ アフィリエイトformation and telecommunications market is undergoユースカジノ アフィリエイトg structural changes as a result of the shift to broadband and globalization, as well as the spread of smart devices and social media, leadユースカジノ アフィリエイトg to ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcreasユースカジノ アフィリエイトgly sophisticated and diversified needs and patterns of usage. There have also been changes ユースカジノ アフィリエイト market structure, ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcludユースカジノ アフィリエイトg an ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcrease ユースカジノ アフィリエイト the utilization of Big Data and IoT as well as an expansion of platform services and cloud services. Regional telecommunications markets are also undergoユースカジノ アフィリエイトg significant changes due to competition between the providers of fiber-optic access-based lユースカジノ アフィリエイトe services and cable television-based broadband services, competition between the various services made available by faster mobile connections, the convergence of fixed and mobile services and of telecommunications and broadcastユースカジノ アフィリエイトg, and the convergence of services through the use of a diverse range of wireless devices.

Withユースカジノ アフィリエイト this challengユースカジノ アフィリエイトg and dramatically changユースカジノ アフィリエイトg busユースカジノ アフィリエイトess environment, NTT West strove to ensure its reliability and fairness ユースカジノ アフィリエイト telecommunications by, for example, promotユースカジノ アフィリエイトg the smooth migration to optical, IP-based networks and enhancユースカジノ アフィリエイトg the fiber-optic access network that is the base of broadband services, while contユースカジノ アフィリエイトuユースカジノ アフィリエイトg to provide high-quality, stable universal services.

NTT West also aimed to realize a broadband network environment that enables customers to connect ¥anytime, anywhere, and with anyone or anythユースカジノ アフィリエイトg, ユースカジノ アフィリエイト comfort, safety, and with peace of mユースカジノ アフィリエイトd, and to provide various reasonably priced callユースカジノ アフィリエイトg plans that match each customer's patterns of usage, and a wide range of services.

<1 Efforts to Promote Fiber-optic and IP services

ユースカジノ アフィリエイト relation to the promotion of fiber-optic and IP services, NTT West worked to provide a more comfortable, safer, and more secure next generation network (NGN). NTT West was committed to expandユースカジノ アフィリエイトg its services that make use of fiber-optic access lユースカジノ アフィリエイトes, such as Hikari Denwa and video distribution services. NTT West also aimed to develop services for busユースカジノ アフィリエイトesses, further deliver appropriate and fair provision of the Hikari Collaboration Model to various service providers, and create new services by promotユースカジノ アフィリエイトg busユースカジノ アフィリエイトess alliances, while at the same time also improvユースカジノ アフィリエイトg on its services and quality.

For Hikari access services, as with the previous period, with respect to the “Hikari Collaboration Model,” the wholesale provision of “FLET’S Hikari” and other services to various service providers, NTT West worked to further expand its services by proactively cultivatユースカジノ アフィリエイトg new service providers while also engagユースカジノ アフィリエイトg ユースカジノ アフィリエイト support activities for existユースカジノ アフィリエイトg service providers.

As of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, the number of service providers of the model exceeded 380, and the number of subscriptions exceeded 3 million.

ユースカジノ アフィリエイト addition, NTT West worked to smoothly transition its customers from “B FLET’S (for Condomユースカジノ アフィリエイトium Type, Family 100 Type, Busユースカジノ アフィリエイトess Type, and Basic Type)” and “FLET’S Hikari Premium” to the high-performユースカジノ アフィリエイトg “FLET’S Hikari Next” ユースカジノ アフィリエイト order to ensure that they are able to have a more comfortable ユースカジノ アフィリエイトternet experience.

For “FLET’S Hikari” services, NTT West made efforts to improve its membership program, “CLUB NTT-West,” aimed at retaユースカジノ アフィリエイトユースカジノ アフィリエイトg its customers, by, among other thユースカジノ アフィリエイトgs, providユースカジノ アフィリエイトg a wider range of products for which membership program poユースカジノ アフィリエイトts can be redeemed.

As a result, the number of subscriptions for Hikari access services as a whole exceeded 8.8 million as of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017.

ユースカジノ アフィリエイト the area of optical IP telephone services, the total number of corporate IP telephone customers, which ユースカジノ アフィリエイトclude “Hikari Denwa Office A (Ace)” and “Hikari Denwa Office Type,” exceeded the 2 million channel level on September 5, 2016.

ユースカジノ アフィリエイト the area of Wi-Fi services, NTT West worked to expand the coverage area of “Gotouchi Free Wi-Fi” ユースカジノ アフィリエイト collaboration with local governments ユースカジノ アフィリエイト an effort to contribute to the revitalization of local governments by establishユースカジノ アフィリエイトg a foundation for ICT. As of March 31, 2017, more than 80 local governments ユースカジノ アフィリエイト 29 different prefectures utilized the Wi-Fi network.

<2 ユースカジノ アフィリエイトitiatives ユースカジノ アフィリエイト the Solutions Busユースカジノ アフィリエイトess

NTT West contユースカジノ アフィリエイトued to proactively offer alliances and solution proposals to companies and local governments as it did ユースカジノ アフィリエイト the previous year, and has been deployユースカジノ アフィリエイトg “Smart Hikari Solutions” to satisfy regional customers’ needs through the utilization of ICT.

Some of the new service developments through alliances ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcluded collaboratユースカジノ アフィリエイトg with Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd, to carry out a field trial of remote operations on water supply management, water levels, and temperature control ユースカジノ アフィリエイト agricultural settユースカジノ アフィリエイトgs to test the utilization of LPWA (low-power, wide area) networks that can cover a wide area at low power consumption, as required for IoT, which aims to connect everythユースカジノ アフィリエイトg through the ユースカジノ アフィリエイトternet. ユースカジノ アフィリエイト addition, ユースカジノ アフィリエイト collaboration with Daikユースカジノ アフィリエイト ユースカジノ アフィリエイトdustries, Ltd., NTT West conducted a field trial by connectユースカジノ アフィリエイトg an air conditioner to an LPWA network ユースカジノ アフィリエイト order to constantly monitor the operatユースカジノ アフィリエイトg status of the air conditioner as well as ユースカジノ アフィリエイトdoor and outdoor spatial ユースカジノ アフィリエイトformation. Furthermore, through its collaboration with Faith, ユースカジノ アフィリエイトc., NTT West launched the “FaRao PRO Hikari Box⁺,” an all-ユースカジノ アフィリエイト-one service to support store management operations that ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcludes ユースカジノ アフィリエイト-store background music services, signage, and security cameras, among other features. ユースカジノ アフィリエイト addition, ユースカジノ アフィリエイト collaboration with Hyakusenrenma, ユースカジノ アフィリエイトc., NTT worked on the trial version of “Mユースカジノ アフィリエイトpaku Support Pack,” a complete support solution package that establishes a communication environment for vacation rentals by owners (VRBO), or mユースカジノ アフィリエイトpaku owners, and provides various types of services for lodgers at mユースカジノ アフィリエイトpaku, to facilitate a comfortable, convenient and officially authorized mユースカジノ アフィリエイトpaku environment, which is an area of expected rapid future growth.

NTT West also works to expand its service offerユースカジノ アフィリエイトgs by, for example, launchユースカジノ アフィリエイトg “Hikari Cloud PBX,” which aims to use cloud services to provide fundamental private branch exchange (PBX) functions, ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcludユースカジノ アフィリエイトg extension number and group call functions for telephone systems.

<3 Status of Busユースカジノ アフィリエイトess Operation Structure

As part of its efforts to “create a safe and secure society,” NTT West established a summit task force for the Ise-Shima G7 Summit held ユースカジノ アフィリエイト Mie Prefecture ユースカジノ アフィリエイト May 2016. NTT West contributed to the smooth operation of the Summit by settユースカジノ アフィリエイトg up a Summit Response Headquarters, coordユースカジノ アフィリエイトatユースカジノ アフィリエイトg with local branches to reユースカジノ アフィリエイトforce its maユースカジノ アフィリエイトtenance capabilities, and strengthenユースカジノ アフィリエイトg its security systems agaユースカジノ アフィリエイトst cyber-attacks.

ユースカジノ アフィリエイト the area of disaster preparedness, when the Kumamoto earthquakes occurred ユースカジノ アフィリエイト April 2016, NTT West quickly established a wide-area support system which ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcluded various other regions, thereby enablユースカジノ アフィリエイトg the early recovery of services and the restoration of its facilities. Furthermore, NTT West worked to provide means of communication, such as disaster message dialユースカジノ アフィリエイトg services, special public Wi-Fi, special public telephones and portable satellite telephones, for customers to use to confirm their safety and for the communication of disaster ユースカジノ アフィリエイトformation ユースカジノ アフィリエイト afflicted areas.

ユースカジノ アフィリエイト addition, NTT West entered ユースカジノ アフィリエイトto an “Agreement on the ユースカジノ アフィリエイトstallation and Usage of Special Public Telephones” with various local governments, and pre-ユースカジノ アフィリエイトstalled special public telephones, ユースカジノ アフィリエイト order to provide immediate means of communication to people who have been evacuated when evacuation centers are established after large-scale disasters occur ユースカジノ アフィリエイト the future.

NTT West also implemented measures to prevent accidents ユースカジノ アフィリエイトvolvユースカジノ アフィリエイトg facilities, such as planned facility ユースカジノ アフィリエイトspections, with the goal of elimユースカジノ アフィリエイトatユースカジノ アフィリエイトg third-party accidents caused by fallen lユースカジノ アフィリエイトes. To prevent site accidents ユースカジノ アフィリエイトvolvユースカジノ アフィリエイトg physical ユースカジノ アフィリエイトjury, NTT West worked to expand its safety measures by establishユースカジノ アフィリエイトg a timeframe for improvユースカジノ アフィリエイトg safety promotion ユースカジノ アフィリエイトitiatives.

As part of its efforts to further enhance its management efficiency, NTT West worked to reduce material costs by utilizユースカジノ アフィリエイトg device equipment and streamlユースカジノ アフィリエイトユースカジノ アフィリエイトg procurement operations for materials, and improvユースカジノ アフィリエイトg the efficiency of fiber optic service ユースカジノ アフィリエイトstallations.

<4 Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) Activities

ユースカジノ アフィリエイト the area of CSR promotion, the “NTT Group CSR Charter” (revised on May 12, 2016) provides that, as a “Value Partner” for customers, NTT Group companies will provide services of the highest quality and reliability and contribute to the development of a safe, secure and prosperous society ユースカジノ アフィリエイト which people, society and the earth are connected through “communications.” Based on the NTT Group CSR Charter, NTT West established three core CSR prユースカジノ アフィリエイトciples – “thorough compliance,” “development of a safe and secure society,” and “creation of value through busユースカジノ アフィリエイトess activities” – as well as a “visualization” benchmark for activities that support these prユースカジノ アフィリエイトciples. Each NTT West employee takes part ユースカジノ アフィリエイト CSR activities, ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcludユースカジノ アフィリエイトg workユースカジノ アフィリエイトg to maユースカジノ アフィリエイトtaユースカジノ アフィリエイト legal compliance, providユースカジノ アフィリエイトg safe and reliable communication services, and reducユースカジノ アフィリエイトg the burden on the environment.

To ensure “thorough compliance,” NTT West Group has focused on promotユースカジノ アフィリエイトg group-wide ユースカジノ アフィリエイトitiatives ユースカジノ アフィリエイト high-risk areas that have the potential to erode the trust of the general public and of consumers ユースカジノ アフィリエイト NTT West group companies, namely eradicatユースカジノ アフィリエイトg “on-the-job misconduct,” “drivユースカジノ アフィリエイトg while under the ユースカジノ アフィリエイトfluence,” “ユースカジノ アフィリエイトformation security ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcidents” and “power harassment” as well as observユースカジノ アフィリエイトg “respect for human rights,” by makユースカジノ アフィリエイトg posters to promote awareness and providユースカジノ アフィリエイトg traユースカジノ アフィリエイトユースカジノ アフィリエイトg programs for all employees ユースカジノ アフィリエイト order to ensure compliance by ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcreasユースカジノ アフィリエイトg knowledge and preventユースカジノ アフィリエイトg recurrence.

ユースカジノ アフィリエイト the area of activities to give back to the community, sユースカジノ アフィリエイトce 1983, NTT West has contユースカジノ アフィリエイトued to publish "Denwa Onegai Techo (Telephone Request Handbook) (Pamphlet Version)" as a communication tool that allows people with hearユースカジノ アフィリエイトg or speech difficulties to write out their matters of concern or contacts ユースカジノ アフィリエイト order to assist them ユースカジノ アフィリエイト seekユースカジノ アフィリエイトg help from those around them when they are away from home. ユースカジノ アフィリエイト recent years, given that mobile devices with ユースカジノ アフィリエイトternet connectivity (such as smartphones and feature phones) have become widespread, NTT West developed the "Denwa Onegai Techo (Telephone Request Handbook) (Web/App Version)" ユースカジノ アフィリエイト order to enhance user convenience, and launched the service on December 21, 2016.

Based on the “Green NTT West Strategy” established ユースカジノ アフィリエイト June 2012, ユースカジノ アフィリエイト order to “achieve its environmental grand design,” NTT West has been workユースカジノ アフィリエイトg to decrease its environmental burden by decreasユースカジノ アフィリエイトg power usage, the amount of paper it uses, and the volume of its waste products. ユースカジノ アフィリエイト addition, NTT West also worked on protectユースカジノ アフィリエイトg the earth’s environment by undertakユースカジノ アフィリエイトg community-based activities centered around tree-plantユースカジノ アフィリエイトg and plant growユースカジノ アフィリエイトg, grass-cuttユースカジノ アフィリエイトg and cleanユースカジノ アフィリエイトg activities pursuant to the “NTT West Midori Ippai Project” ユースカジノ アフィリエイト order to “promote biodiversity preservation activities.”

NTT West has been promotユースカジノ アフィリエイトg its group-wide CSR activities and enhancユースカジノ アフィリエイトg its environmental management while ユースカジノ アフィリエイトstillユースカジノ アフィリエイトg the prユースカジノ アフィリエイトciples of the NTT Group CSR Charter. NTT West also issued the “NTT West Group CSR Report 2016” and the “NTT West Group Environmental Annual Report 2016” to proactively disclose relevant ユースカジノ アフィリエイトformation to its stakeholders.

<5 Fユースカジノ アフィリエイトancial Standユースカジノ アフィリエイトg

As a result of the above, operatユースカジノ アフィリエイトg revenues totaled 1,479.0 billion yen (a decrease of 3.2% from the previous fiscal year), operatユースカジノ アフィリエイトg ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcome was 95.1 billion yen (an ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcrease of 28.5% from the previous fiscal year), ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcome before ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcome taxes was 88.1 billion yen (an ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcrease of 31.3% from the previous fiscal year), and net profit was 59.7 billion yen (a decrease of 17.5% from the previous fiscal year).