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Cover Story 1 This year will see megabit class speeds and 3000 yen monthly prices: Wireless broadband services will become “faster, cheaper, and more ubiquitous” Megabit class wireless communications with a monthly charge of a few thousand yen, of which any mobile user has dreamt, will be realized at last as the appearance of services using the WiMAX technology and the expansion of areas covered by wireless LAN access services will increase and serve to reinforce each other. Impact of new technology WiMAX for wireless broadband Completion of “the favorite” standard for WiMAX is being anticipated Wireless LAN access services complement WiMAX by dealing with congested areas for wireless data communications In addition to WiMAX, high-speed wireless technologies appear in succession Cover Story 2 Will it really save your money? Will it be beneficial to users? The true pictures of new fixed telephony services are surprisingly not well known The full liberalization of the fixed telephony market has started at last. Some carriers such as Japan Telecom and KDDI have begun to offer new fixed telephony services. They try to break down the stronghold of NTT East and NTT West with competitive prices as their major sales points. However, the new services must still answer many questions. Can they really take over the position of the NTT telephony? This article studies the capabilities of those new services. Why are new fixed telephony services being offered now? Can they beat the existing service with cheaper prices only? Can they replace NTT fixed telephony? In what respects are they different?

Report

To “master the operation of N900iL,” integrators deploy the products in succession

Shinsei Bank will allocate a different 050 number to each of its 4500 employees in this year

It is still not too late to prevent information leakage; first, connect and lock PCs with wires

NTT East and NTT West burn their bridges to win 30 million optical subscribers by fully operating a triplet of B FLET’S services

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

Shunzo Morishita
President, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE WEST CORPORATION
“ In the current situation, we cannot expect further opticalization in the local regions. The ‘competition fundamentalism’ will not work any longer.”

Latest network that has changed enterprises

Tsuneishi Corporation
The company will deploy portable IP telephone terminals (N900iL) in its shipbuilding docks and is trying to make them work in conjunction with the Cisco IP telephony server