How the NGN is being used
Improving network infrastructures to support ubiquitous communications
- Developing infrastructure and services that address social issues
- Promoting use of B FLET'S high-speed broadband fiber optic service
- FOMA 3G mobile communications services reach 100% population coverage
- Over 8.84 million fiber optic service subscribers nationwide
- FOMA HIGH-SPEED population coverage exceeds 98%
Developing technology for the next-generation network
- Developing communications networks and fundamental technologies to support ubiquitous broadband services
- Developing a platform to enable high-definition video distribution
- Field testing of next-generation portal sites
- Successful optical transmission at world record speeds of 20 terabits per second
- Even when apart, telephone gives the sense of being in the same room
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Supporting various medical services
- Developing telecommunications systems to make telemedicine and telediagnosis a reality
- Support via mobile e-mail for preventing and remedying metabolic syndrome
- Participating in Japan-Thailand telemedicine field tests
- Psychological health self-check over the Internet
- A health management support system that improves the efficiency of medical checks
Creating an environment that provides peace of mind to the elderly and people with disabilities
- Supporting elderly people through ICT and universal design
- Developing distance learning courses to enable students to learn universal design concepts
- Developing a system to prevent slips and falls using technology that anticipates body movements
- Remotely monitoring the well-being of elderly people
- Supporting nursing-care through video-based programs
- Access to website offering lifestyle information to people with disabilities and elderly people exceeds 380 thousand hits in one year
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Increasing employment opportunities
- Creating telework opportunities and other new work arrangements using ICT
- Home-based OCN call center staff positions offer baby boomers and others more employment opportunities
- Managing a virtual factory for those who face difficulty commuting to work
- Sponsoring speaking engagements to promote recruitment and employment of people with disabilities
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