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Nikkei Communications

February 15, 2008

Cover Story 1
Japan's optical access being at the crossroads, will service competition really start?

At last, the combined share of NTT East and NTT West has exceeded 70% in the FTTH market.  Rival companies such as KDDI and Softbank have given up in "facility competition" and cannot find a key to rollback operations.  Amid this situation, arguments continue in order to promote "service competition" by reducing the "purchase price" of optical fiber.

 

From facility competition to service competition

 

Reviewing the style of leasing optical fiber

Arguments over "one branch leasing" never converge

 

Revision of interconnection charges

Disappointing reductions in the interconnection charges

 

Cover Story 2
Viruses target browsers, so even accessing decent sites could be dangerous

Just viewing a very normal Web site will cause your computer to be infected with a virus.  In Japan, like other countries, damage due to this type of viruses is rapidly spreading.  In spite of anti-virus measures taken, viruses are bursting into a company and spreading all over the company network.  Let's check the current status of the virus activities and the latest anti-virus measures in conjunction with the examples.

 

Inside

MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator)

Opening mobile networks drives MVNOs to enter the market in succession, accompanied with movement to aim to expand added value

MVNOs took a long time to start a full-scale progress, but at last they have entered the market in succession with appearance of services that provide new added value to users.  The progress of the government competition policy may enable more different kinds of mobile services to appear in the future.

 

Report
NGN will be started with temporary interconnection charges, accompanied with unprecedented "negotiation transactions"  

KDDI buys optical communication operations from Chubu Electric Power with an aim to get a share of 30% in central Japan

Hitachi Cable brings a new concept in quarantine systems to a reality, LAN security mechanism appropriate to "island culture environments"

NTT Communications and Microsoft work together to provide the first 050-number calling service in Windows Vista

A new attack to tamper router settings appears, causing users damage by just looking at mail

Pacnet will build NGEN, "next-generation network for Asia," with higher capacity and better reliability 

NEC is jointly developing with 10 IT vendors a SIP middleware common API to help software developers to use SIP 

Central Japan Railway will start a wireless LAN service in bullet train compartments between Tokyo and Osaka from 2009

Close proximity wireless transfer technologies, enabling large video images to be transferred by just touching two electronic products together, are appearing in succession

Telecom watch

Will KDDI launch smartphones in the 2nd half of fiscal 2008?

Impact of Google's entrance into cellphone market-Part 3: Do they really intend to win a 700MHz band through bidding on it?

 

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

"Proper profits are vital for sustainable research and development."

Dr. Tatsuo Izawa, Executive Vice President for Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology

 

 

Nikkei Communications

February 15, 2008

Cover Story 1
Japan's optical access being at the crossroads, will service competition really start?

At last, the combined share of NTT East and NTT West has exceeded 70% in the FTTH market.  Rival companies such as KDDI and Softbank have given up in "facility competition" and cannot find a key to rollback operations.  Amid this situation, arguments continue in order to promote "service competition" by reducing the "purchase price" of optical fiber.

 

From facility competition to service competition

 

Reviewing the style of leasing optical fiber

Arguments over "one branch leasing" never converge

 

Revision of interconnection charges

Disappointing reductions in the interconnection charges

 

Cover Story 2
Viruses target browsers, so even accessing decent sites could be dangerous

Just viewing a very normal Web site will cause your computer to be infected with a virus.  In Japan, like other countries, damage due to this type of viruses is rapidly spreading.  In spite of anti-virus measures taken, viruses are bursting into a company and spreading all over the company network.  Let's check the current status of the virus activities and the latest anti-virus measures in conjunction with the examples.

 

Inside

MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator)

Opening mobile networks drives MVNOs to enter the market in succession, accompanied with movement to aim to expand added value

MVNOs took a long time to start a full-scale progress, but at last they have entered the market in succession with appearance of services that provide new added value to users.  The progress of the government competition policy may enable more different kinds of mobile services to appear in the future.

 

Report
NGN will be started with temporary interconnection charges, accompanied with unprecedented "negotiation transactions"  

KDDI buys optical communication operations from Chubu Electric Power with an aim to get a share of 30% in central Japan

Hitachi Cable brings a new concept in quarantine systems to a reality, LAN security mechanism appropriate to "island culture environments"

NTT Communications and Microsoft work together to provide the first 050-number calling service in Windows Vista

A new attack to tamper router settings appears, causing users damage by just looking at mail

Pacnet will build NGEN, "next-generation network for Asia," with higher capacity and better reliability 

NEC is jointly developing with 10 IT vendors a SIP middleware common API to help software developers to use SIP 

Central Japan Railway will start a wireless LAN service in bullet train compartments between Tokyo and Osaka from 2009

Close proximity wireless transfer technologies, enabling large video images to be transferred by just touching two electronic products together, are appearing in succession

Telecom watch

Will KDDI launch smartphones in the 2nd half of fiscal 2008?

Impact of Google's entrance into cellphone market-Part 3: Do they really intend to win a 700MHz band through bidding on it?

 

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

"Proper profits are vital for sustainable research and development."

Dr. Tatsuo Izawa, Executive Vice President for Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology