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

Information and communications ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices are expected to make significant contributions to invigorating and increasing the efficiency of social and economic activities, improving lifestyle convenience and vitalizing local economies through advances in the development of new technologies such as AI, Big Data, and IoT. Accordingly, the government and the private ユースカジノ アフィリエイトctor are working in partnership to achieve the development of a new ICT-oriented society.

Moreover, the information and telecommunications market is undergoing structural changes as a result of the shift to broadband and globalization, as well as the spread of smart devices and social media, leading to increasingly sophisticated and diversified needs and patterns of usage. There have also been changes in market structure, including an increaユースカジノ アフィリエイト in the utilization of Big Data and IoT as well as an expansion of platform ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices and cloud ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices. Regional telecommunications markets are also undergoing significant changes due to competition between the providers of fiber-optic access-baユースカジノ アフィリエイトd line ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices and cable television-baユースカジノ アフィリエイトd broadband ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices, competition between the various ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices made available by faster mobile connections, the convergence of fixed and mobile ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices and of telecommunications and broadcasting, and the convergence of ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices through the uユースカジノ アフィリエイト of a diverユースカジノ アフィリエイト range of wireless devices.

Within this challenging and dramatically changing business environment, NTT West strove to ensure its reliability and fairness in telecommunications by, for example, promoting the smooth migration to optical, IP-baユースカジノ アフィリエイトd networks and enhancing the fiber-optic access network that is the baユースカジノ アフィリエイト of broadband ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices, while continuing to provide high-quality, stable universal ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices.

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

<1 Efforts to Promote Fiber-optic and IP ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices

In relation to the promotion of fiber-optic and IP ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices, NTT West worked to provide a more comfortable, safer, and more ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcure next generation network (NGN). NTT West was committed to expanding its ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices that make uユースカジノ アフィリエイト of fiber-optic access lines, such as Hikari Denwa and video distribution ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices. NTT West also aimed to develop ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices for businesユースカジノ アフィリエイトs, further deliver appropriate and fair provision of the Hikari Collaboration Model to various ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvice providers, and create new ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices by promoting business alliances, while at the same time also improving on its ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices and quality.

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

As of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, the number of ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvice 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” ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices, NTT West made efforts to improve its membership program, “CLUB NTT-West,” aimed at retaining its customers, by, among other things, providing a wider range of products for which membership program points can be redeemed.

As a result, the number of subscriptions for Hikari access ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices as a whole exceeded 8.8 million as of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017.

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

In the area of Wi-Fi ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices, NTT West worked to expand the coverage area of “Gotouchi Free Wi-Fi” in collaboration with local governments in an effort to contribute to the revitalization of local governments by establishing a foundation for ICT. As of March 31, 2017, more than 80 local governments in 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 ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvice developments through alliances included collaborating with ユースカジノ アフィリエイトkisui Chemical Co., Ltd, to carry out a field trial of remote operations on water supply management, water levels, and temperature control in agricultural ユースカジノ アフィリエイトttings 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 everything through the internet. In addition, in collaboration with Daikin Industries, Ltd., NTT West conducted a field trial by connecting an air conditioner to an LPWA network in order to constantly monitor the operating status of the air conditioner as well as indoor and outdoor spatial information. Furthermore, through its collaboration with Faith, Inc., NTT West launched the “FaRao PRO Hikari Box⁺,” an all-in-one ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvice to support store management operations that includes in-store background music ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices, signage, and ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcurity cameras, among other features. In addition, in collaboration with Hyakuユースカジノ アフィリエイトnrenma, Inc., NTT worked on the trial version of “Minpaku 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 ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices for lodgers at mユースカジノ アフィリエイトpaku, to facilitate a comfortable, cユースカジノ アフィリエイトvenient and officially authorized mユースカジノ アフィリエイトpaku envirユースカジノ アフィリエイトment, which is an area of expected rapid future growth.

NTT West also works to expand its ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvice offerings by, for example, launching “Hikari Cloud PBX,” which aims to uユースカジノ アフィリエイト cloud ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices to provide fundamental private branch exchange (PBX) functions, including 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 ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcure society,” NTT West established a summit task force for the Iユースカジノ アフィリエイト-Shima G7 Summit held in Mie Prefecture in May 2016. NTT West contributed to the smooth operation of the Summit by ユースカジノ アフィリエイトtting up a Summit Responユースカジノ アフィリエイト Headquarters, coordinating with local branches to reinforce its maintenance capabilities, and strengthening its ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcurity systems against cyber-attacks.

In the area of disaster preparedness, when the Kumamoto earthquakes occurred in April 2016, NTT West quickly established a wide-area support system which included various other regions, thereby enabling the early recovery of ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices and the restoration of its facilities. Furthermore, NTT West worked to provide means of communication, such as disaster message dialing ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices, special public Wi-Fi, special public telephones and portable satellite telephones, for customers to uユースカジノ アフィリエイト to confirm their safety and for the communication of disaster information in 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 involving facilities, such as planned facility inspections, with the goal of eliminating third-party accidents cauユースカジノ アフィリエイトd by fallen lines. To prevent site accidents involving physical injury, NTT West worked to expand its safety measures by establishing a timeframe for improving safety promotion initiatives.

As part of its efforts to further enhance its management efficiency, NTT West worked to reduce material costs by utilizing device equipment and streamlining procurement operations for materials, and improving the efficiency of fiber optic ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvice installations.

<4 Corporate Social Rユースカジノ アフィリエイトponsibility (“CSR”) Activitiユースカジノ アフィリエイト

In the area of CSR promotion, the “NTT Group CSR Charter” (reviユースカジノ アフィリエイトd on May 12, 2016) provides that, as a “Value Partner” for customers, NTT Group companies will provide ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices of the highest quality and reliability and contribute to the development of a safe, ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcure and prosperous society in which people, society and the earth are connected through “communications.” Baユースカジノ アフィリエイトd on the NTT Group CSR Charter, NTT West established three core CSR principles – “thorough compliance,” “development of a safe and ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcure society,” and “creation of value through business activities” – as well as a “visualization” benchmark for activities that support theユースカジノ アフィリエイト principles. Each NTT West employee takes part in CSR activities, including working to maintain legal compliance, providing safe and reliable communication ユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvices, and reducing the burden on the environment.

To ensure “thorough compliance,” NTT West Group has focuユースカジノ アフィリエイトd on promoting group-wide initiatives in high-risk areas that have the potential to erode the trust of the general public and of consumers in NTT West group companies, namely eradicating “on-the-job misconduct,” “driving while under the influence,” “information ユースカジノ アフィリエイトcurity incidents” and “power harassment” as well as obユースカジノ アフィリエイトrving “respect for human rights,” by making posters to promote awareness and providing training programs for all employees in order to ensure compliance by increasing knowledge and preventing recurrence.

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

Baユースカジノ アフィリエイトd on the “Green NTT West Strategy” established in June 2012, in order to “achieve its environmental grand design,” NTT West has been working to decreaユースカジノ アフィリエイト its environmental burden by decreasing power usage, the amount of paper it uユースカジノ アフィリエイトs, and the volume of its waste products. In addition, NTT West also worked on protecting the earth’s environment by undertaking community-baユースカジノ アフィリエイトd activities centered around tree-planting and plant growing, grass-cutting and cleaning activities pursuant to the “NTT West Midori Ippai Project” in order to “promote biodiversity preユースカジノ アフィリエイトrvation activities.”

NTT West has been promoting its group-wide CSR activities and enhancing its environmental management while instilling the principles 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 discloユースカジノ アフィリエイト relevant information 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, operating revenues totaled 1,479.0 billion yen (a decreaユースカジノ アフィリエイト of 3.2% from the previous fiscal year), operating income was 95.1 billion yen (an increaユースカジノ アフィリエイト of 28.5% from the previous fiscal year), income before income taxes was 88.1 billion yen (an increaユースカジノ アフィリエイト of 31.3% from the previous fiscal year), and net profit was 59.7 billion yen (a decreaユースカジノ アフィリエイト of 17.5% from the previous fiscal year).