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Nikkei Communications

June 01 2005 Issue <<Contents>>

Cover Story 1 Major offensive launched by new WILLCOM Inc. that makes a reverse L-shape recovery after breaking away from KDDI With the introduction of the first flat-rate voice service of cellular phones in Japan, voice terminal subscriptions with new WILLCOM have turned to a net increase for the first time in five years. The company alone is making a good showing among PHS carriers by overcoming adverse conditions that caused other PHS carriers’ successive withdrawal from the market. The company envisages a “reverse L-shape” recovery, or a change from leveling-off to rapid growth, with the aim of an early increase of one million subscribers The number of voice terminal subscribers turns to a net increase Takeover by The Carlyle Group makes WILLCOM break away from defensive management Technical background of providing “flat-rate service” - the key to survival Cover Story 2 The rumor turns out to be true! “SPIT,” a new spam that victimizes IP telephone sets, appears and now is the time to eliminate the threat Spam that uses IP telephone sets has sprouted. Three companies, namely, NTT Communications, Nifty, and Softbank BB, have confirmed the existence of the spam, and instances have also been spotted here and there oversees. At this stage, a few instances of the spam have been reported, but once it starts to spread, the annoyance caused by it will far exceed that in e-mail. Are there any effective countermeasures? Latest situation: SPIT starts working behind the scenes Background: The feature of charge-free calls within the same service is being abused Prevention: Both technical and contractual countermeasures have already started

Report

Mr. Wada, president & CEO of the NTT holding company, boasts of his clout with a drastic personnel change

IPsec is vulnerable to packet snooping, although its severity is minor

5GHz-band wireless LAN changes with added channels and the revised ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

IP-PBX records rapid growth worldwide with a 70 percent increase in shipments, the equivalent of 14 million lines

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

Tadao Tanabe
President and CEO, K-Opticom Corporation
“ It is the triple service that determines the life and death of our company. To survive the competition, the only thing we can do is to continue to provide new services one after another.”

Latest network that has changed enterprises

Kobe Steel, Ltd.
The company has deployed 2,300 internal PHSs in one of its steel mills and started a plan for deploying 10,000 IP telephone sets