Regional Communications Business

The principal services in the Regional Communications Business are domestic intra-prefectural communications services and related ancillary services.

Overview

Business Activities:

Domestic intra-prefectural communications services and related ancillary services.

Major Services:

FLET'S Hikari, Hikari Collaboration Model, etc.

Main Companies

NTT EAST

NTT EAST
NTT WEST

NTT WEST

Results for the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2024

Overview

In the Regional Communications Business, in addition to strengthening our solutions business which supports the digital transformation (DX) of companies, local governments, and societies to resolve regional social issues, we offered our "Hikari Collaboration Model," which provides wholesale fiber-optic access services, among other things, to various service providers.

Details of Main Initiatives

In view of the decline in the number of fixed-line telephone contracts (telephone subscriber lines and INS-Net) due to the diversification of communication methods in the wake of the development of mobile and broadband services, as well as the limit (around 2025) to maintaining the infrastructure (tandem transfer switches and signal transfer switches) of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) used for telephone services, we began replacing the fixed-line telephone (telephone subscriber lines and INS-Net) equipment with IP network equipment in stages by region starting from January 1, 2024.

NTT East was among a consortium of 18 domestic and overseas communication device vendors and others that entered into an agreement in November 2023 to launch a new co-creation project to verify interconnections with and optimization of local 5G devices, with the objectives of disseminating and expanding local 5G by further reducing costs and improving user-friendliness.

In December 2023, NTT West came to an agreement with ugo, Inc. to consider a joint project to use robots to solve social issues, such as labor shortages accelerating due to the population decline.

Number of Subscriptions for Major Services

〇"FLET'S Hikari": 23.65 million subscriptions (increase of 0.08 million year-on-year)
　　(Included in the above) "Hikari Collaboration Model": 17.12 million subscriptions (increase of 0.31 million year-on-year)

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Evaluation by Society

- NTT is the first telecommunications operator to become a member of global initiatives to make smarter use of energy, “EP100” and “EV100” (Oct. 2018)
- Established a council to promote secure digital economy together with multi-national companies

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