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February 23 2004 Issue <<Contents>>

Cover Story 1 Carrier shakeup drama in 2004 staged by Ripplewood Holdings LLC In February 2004, Japan’s telecommunications industry has begun seeing signs of moves that may shake up the current carrier industry. Ripplewood Holdings LLC and JAPAN TELECOM CO., LTD. are on the offensive. How will carriers affiliated with power utilities led by the Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated act in concert against their moves? The power balance in the telecommunications market in Japan will greatly change depending on how the moves will be developed. This article attempts to reveal inside details. Central players are Japan Telecom and the Tokyo Electric Power Company Japan Telecom aims to break away from "perennial third-place finish" and "continual, unsuccessful negotiations" Japan Telecom: can the company change in the wake of a new able president assuming the post? POWEREDCOM: integration of telephony operations nearing a time limit

Report

Why does NTT join in the broadband broadcasting service whose number of subscribers sees sluggish growth?

UFJ Bank Limited begins the countdown for the deployment of an IP telephony network on the scale of 40,000 telephone sets

NTT Communications Corporation starts to offer a "mobile IP centrex" as early as May 2004

eAccess Ltd. aims to enter the wireless broadband service market with a new TD-SCDMA method for mobile phones

Special report

Digital divide creeping on
Part 2. IP/fixed telephony
Traditional fixed telephony falling into decay in the shadow of IP telephony and faces an increase in call charges and a subsequent digital divide in information

Cover Story 2

Realities of deployment effects revealed by 8 companies: how much cost can IP telephony services reduce?

New telephony services - enterprise IP telephony and IP centrex services - that have appeared in succession during the past year are surging rapidly. The benefit users expect to get from them is "dramatic" effects on cost reductions. Is it, however, really possible to reduce costs with IP telephony services?
This article clarifies the knack of maximizing the benefit.


Nippon Koei Co., Ltd.: The existing subscription telephone service needs less deployment and maintenance costs than does IP telephony

Sumikin Bussan Kenzai Corporation: Toll-free calls between sites with a 050 prefix number can be made

Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.: 24 sites are connected with an annual cost of 30 million yen

Lists of IP centrex services and enterprise IP telephony services

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

Tomokazu Hamaguchi
President and Chief Executive Officer, NTT DATA Corporation
"We think that the system integration offered by Internet network operators and ours are two totally different things"