NTT Group (Japan)

NTT (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone) is Japan's main telecommunications operator, and was also the world's biggest by revenues until the acquisition sprees mounted by US giants AT&T and Verizon in the mid-2000s. Similarly, the group's virtual monopoly in domestic fixed line, mobile and internet connections has steadily been eroded, although it remains Japan's most important operator by far. Its most dynamic arm is mobile subsidiary NTT DoCoMo, whose wireless internet service i-mode was a global pioneer in high-speed mobile technology. However competition is intense as a result of aggressive expansion by main competitors KDDI and Softbank. Like many Japanese companies, NTT relies heavily on the domestic market. It has made a number of minority investments in neighbouring countries, a strategy designed to keep it top of the telecoms pile in the Far East. However attempts to establish a presence in Western telecoms markets were rather less successful, costing the group more than $10bn in goodwill write-offs.

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NTT website

NTT East	NTT Data
NTT West	StarHub
NTT Communications	Verio
NTT DoCoMo	Teligent
OCN	i-mode

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