a.       Domestic telecommunications

b.      Note:

c.       Figures for long-distance NCCs and TTNet represent net operating revenues, excluding access charges for NTT, and costs for facilities rental.

d.       International telecommunications

• Significance of Liberalization of Telecommunications Markets

• Current Status of New Telecommunications Market Entry

• Overview of Type I Telecommunications Carriers Market 

• Rate Reductions

• Current Status of Info-Communications Industries

• Second Info-Communications Reform

• The Third Info-Communications Reform

• Mobile Communications Market

• Current Status of Major Radio Station Diffusion

• Current Status of Diffusion of Cable TV

a) Share of NTT and NCCs in all calls

b) Share of inter-prefectural calls in all calls

c) Share of NTT and NCCs in interprefectural calls

Notes:

1. Figures in parenthesis represent the number of calls in FY1997.

2. Numbers of NCCs include those of DDI Corp., Japan Telecom Co., Ltd., Tokyo Telecommunication Network Co., Inc. (TTNet), KDD Corp., Jupiter Telecommunications Co., Ltd. and TITUS Communications Corp.

d) Changes of NCCs' share (Number of calls)