Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) is the incumbent telecommunications operator in Japan. The company is the world's leading telecom company in terms of revenues and subscriber base. NTT has been forced to reduce tariffs because of the deregulation of the Japanese telecommunications market.
NTT offers its high-speed Internet service on its FTTH network under the brand name 'B FLET'S'. In November 2005, NTT expanded its FTTH network via a new wiring system with an aim to reach a target FTTH subscriber base of 30 million by 2010. The operator also tested an IPv6 based remote monitoring system to offer security features to its subscribers.
On 4 Jan 2007, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced the acquisition of 760,500 shares in Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV). This acquisition will enable DoCoMo to provide a variety of new services to its TV customers.
VoIP services, mobile telephony and video communication services
Standalone Tariffs
B FLET'S Hyper Family Type
R
FTTX
100000
100000
840.00
210.00
4305.00
Y
JPY
Up to 5 users, subscribers share a single
optical fibre line of up to 1 Gbps
Promotional offer valid till 31 July 2007: Initial charges are waived.
Promotional offer valid as of 5 Feb 2007: Equipment and monthly rental charges are waived for 3 months.
The quoted equipment price is calculated on monthly basisl. Services are provided by NTT East.
B FLET'S Mansion Type
R
FTTX
100000
840.00
2625.00
Y
JPY
Up to 5 users, for residents of
multi-dwelling units; speed up to up to 100 Mbps with LAN-based
service and up to 50 Mbps (downstream) with VDSL
Promotional offer valid till 31 July 2007: Initial charges are waived.
Promotional offer valid as of 5 Feb 2007: Equipment and monthly rental charges are waived for 3 months.
Services are provided by NTT East.
B FLET'S Business Type
B
FTTX
100000
840.00
210.00
42000.00
Y
JPY
Up to 50 users
Promotional offer valid till 31 July 2007: Initial charges are waived.
The quoted equipment price is calculated on monthly basis. Services are provided by NTT East.
B FLET'S Basic Type
B
FTTX
100000
840.00
210.00
9450.00
Y
JPY
Up to 10 users, for SOHO and individual users
Promotional offer valid till 31 July 2007: Initial charges are waived.
The quoted equipment price is calculated on monthly basis. Services are provided by NTT East.
No "Broadband Service Level Agreement" data currently available.
Bundled Tariffs
B FLET'S (Hyper Family Type) + Hikari Phone
Broadband, VoIP
R
FTTX
100000
3990.00
7560.00
Y
JPY
Promotional offer valid as of 5 Feb 2007: Hikari phone equipment worth 630 free with the bundle.
Promtoional offer valid till 31 July 2007: Initial charges are waived.
Promtoional offer valid as of 5 Feb 2007: Monthly rental charges are waived for 3 months.
Initial charges – 3990 (include contract fee - 840 and hikari phone - 3150).
Monthly rental - 7560 (includes B FLET'S –Hyper Family Type - 5460, Hikari phone - 1575 and provider charges - 525).
B FLET'S (Hyper Family Type) + IPTV
Broadband, VoD
R
FTTX
100000
63630.00
6510.00
Y
JPY
Promtoional offer valid till 31 July 2007: Initial charges are waived.
Promtoional offer valid as of 5 Feb 2007: Monthly rental charges are waived for 3 months.
Initial charges – 63630 (include contract fee - 840 and FLET's phone - 62,790).
Monthly rental - 6510 (includes B FLET'S –Hyper Family Type - 5460, FLET's dot net - 525 and provider charges - 525).
Network Statistics
Date
Homes Passed
Business Passed
Exchanges Enabled
DSL Enabled Lines
TV Customers
Telephony Customers
Internet Customers
Broadband Customers
Notes
31 Dec 2002
51,000
31 Dec 2003
329,000
31 Mar 2004
840,000
426,000 (NTT East); 414,000 (NTT West)
30 Jun 2004
1,029,000
528,000 (NTT East); 501,000 (NTT West)
30 Sep 2004
1,215,000
632,000 (NTT East); 583,000 (NTT West)
31 Dec 2004
1,432,000
752,000 (NTT East); 680,000 (NTT West)
31 Mar 2005
1,665,000
885,000 (NTT East); 779,000 (NTT West)
30 Jun 2005
1,991,000
1,086,000 (NTT East); 905,000 (NTT West)
30 Sep 2005
2,356,000
1,301,000 (NTT East); 1,055,000 (NTT West)
31 Dec 2005
2,815,000
1,557,000 (NTT East); 1,258,000 (NTT West)
31 Mar 2006
3,420,000
1,890,000 (NTT East); 1,530,000 (NTT West)
30 Jun 2006
4,076,000
2,245,000 (NTT East); 1,831,000 (NTT West)
30 Sep 2006
4,723,000
2,605,000 (NTT East);
2,118,000 (NTT West)
No "Financial" data currently available.
Geographical Coverage
Date
Region
Notes
01 Dec 2000
6 months Fibre optic trial commenced. Areas covered:- 2,000 users of NTT East: Mina to, Shinagawa,Shinjuku, Chiyoda, Nakano, and Meguro Wards of Tokyo (central offices of Kasumigaseki, Aoyama, Mita, Shibaura, Higashi-shibuya, Akasaka, Shirogane, Yodobashi)- 1,500 users of NTT West: some parts of Osaka City (Central offices of Osaka-chuo, Senba, Kitahama,Osaka-kita, Osaka-higashi, and Osaka-minami.)
01 Nov 2001
B FLET's Business type launch:- NTT East: Chiyoda, Chuo, Minato, Shinjukuand Shibuya Wards, parts of Nerima, Itabashi and Toshima Wards of Tokyo- NTT West: All Osaka city
Network Architecture & Development
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Access Network
B FLET'S is a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) Internet access service. B FLET'S subscribers use optical fiber access lines to connect to the ISP of their choice, using the regional IP network of NTT East/NTT West. The service is offered on a best-effort basis.
'New Optical Generation' plan
On 10 Nov 2004, NTT announced its 'Medium-Term Management Strategy'. The strategy is aimed at advancing the company's long-term ‘Vision for a New Optical Generation’, disclosed in November 2002. Under this strategy, the company plans to transfer a majority of its customers to IP/optical network by the end of 2010. The homogeneous IP/optical network will reduce the maintenance cost substantially, compared to the existing heterogeneous network. This development will enable NTT to move towards a 'Flat-Rate Pricing Structure' which will not be based on distances and will meet customer requirements for quality, reliability, security levels, along with seamlessly providing varied data rates depending on service content.
Fibre optic trials
From December 2000, NTT East and West started conducting its Fibre optic trials in parts of Tokyo (NTT East) and Osaka city (NTT West), following which the service was launched in July 2001 for the residential users of NTT West. It was launched in NTT East area on 1 Aug 2001. The service is offered under the brand name ‘B FLET’S’. It started offering this service to the business users from 1 Nov 2001.
FTTH trials
In May 2000, NTT jointly conducted FTTH trials in Kanazawa for a period of one year. The trial encompassed approximately 100 end-users (41 lines) with a maximum capacity of 10 Mbps (Wide LAN Service).
Service Trial
B FLET’s – Trials - May 2000
Service launch - Residential
B FLET’s – Residential Type - Aug 2001
Service launch - Business
B FLET’s – Business Type - Nov 2001
Marketing Programs
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Tariff reduction
In 2Q05, NTT decreased the monthly rental prices of its ‘B FLET'S – Mansion Type’ and ‘B FLET'S – New Family Type/Hyper Family Type’ residential services by up to 17 percent.
‘Global Super Link’ launch
In June 2005, NTT planned to launch an Ethernet data transmission service ‘Global Super Link’ for its business users.
Service launch
In 3Q06, the operator launched several new residential services with speeds up to 47 Mbps.
Business Partners & Content Deals
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Glimmerglass
In February 2006, the operator extended its investment in Glimmerglass, a Californian supplier of optical networks products, through its investment arm NTT Leasing. This will assist the operator to deploy the optical network products and provide the users with enhanced next generation services.
Trend Micro
In September 2002, NTT signed an agreement with Trend Micro to provide security services such as anti virus software to its broadband customers
Matsushita Group
In May 2000, NTT and Matsushita Group signed an agreement to jointly conduct an FTTH trial project in Kanazawa for a period of one year. A total of five companies comprised of NTT Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT West, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Matsushita Communication IndustrialCo., Ltd., and Hokuriku Matsushita Life Electronics Co., Ltd.,conducted trials on a fiber-optic network over a period of a year to determine high-speed Internet business accessibility and performing a variety of tests covering a range of effects and possibilities with a view to generating new businesses.Kanazawa was selected for the trial because the region has large number of ISDN subscribers and PC users. The trial encompassed approximately 100 end-users (41 lines) with a maximum capacity of 10 Mbps (Wide LAN Service), demanding a variety of local information content and transmitting a large volume of their own content.
BellSouth, BT and FT
In June 1999, NTT, BellSouth, BT (BritishTelecom) and FT (France Telecom) joined hands to develop common technical specifications for use in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)systems
Equipment Suppliers
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Other equipment
In January 2001, NTT signed an agreement withLucent Technologies to install C+L-band optical networking systemon its network. Lucent Technologies' WaveStar OLS 400GL, which usesdense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology and anL-Band optical amplifier (developed by Bell Labs) enabled NTT toexpand the capacity of its long-distance network.On 24 May 2005, NTT launched a PCcluster-based video streaming product i-Visto eXmedia server toreduce latency while offering videos over the company's IP networksto its customers.
Company History & Development
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Launch of an IP Optical Traffic Engineering server
On 14 June 2006, the operator announced to launch an IP Optical Traffic Engineering (TE) server for its IP optical network consisting of IP routers and optical crossconnects (OXCs). This server will do traffic management on its IP optical network thereby responding to the unexpected changes in traffic demand and will also restore operations during system failures or natural disasters.
