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2001
| December 21 |
A new digital ticket system that allows a single smart card to be used for a wide-range of services including travel and entertainment
FlexTicket -- provides description flexibility, high security level, and high speed |
| November 29 |
Digital cash that can be used to purchase services and goods with complete safety and at high speed is here now.
- Its usage is virtually unlimited, from simple store purchases to bus fare payments to regular cash register transactions.
- Digital cash can be downloaded through many public telephones. |
| October 16 |
NTT, HONDA, DEVELOP NEW ONBOARD INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM |
| October 9 |
Validation tests scheduled to be commenced for the "Digital Asset Central Management Service" in order to fully digitalize advertising production and exercise central management for advertising contents
-- Promoting HIKARI Market Creation with a new information sharing service that utilizes optical networks -- |
| September 20 |
New "distributed fiber optic strain sensor" about half the cost and providing three times the measurement accuracy of a conventional sensor.
-- Accelerated construction of various monitoring systems using optical fiber -- |
| August 9 |
The Start of an Experiment on an Event-triggered Vehicle Operations Management System Automatically Sending Arrival, Departure, and Passage at Specified Locations Based on Vehicle Operations Plan
-- Aiming to provide enhanced, efficient and low-cost vehicle operations management -- |
| July 31 |
Report on Results of Kanazawa Trial FTTH Service Project |
| July 6 |
Real-time VLBI observation with the fastest data speed in the world
-- First real-time VLBI observation with the speed of 1Gbps -- |
| July 4 |
NTT, SHARP and DNP Have Started Joint Research to Create a HIKARI Market
-- Researching HIKARI-Soft Services using State-of-the-Art Networks, Terminals, and Content -- |
| July 3 |
Development of the World's First "Non-soil Discharge Mole Robot" to Install Conduits Without Excavation
-- All "NO-DIG" Operations for Conduit Installation with the Future ACEMOLE Method Eases Traffic Congestion and Environmental Problems -- |
| June 4 |
Start of Joint Cooperative Trials Running a Distributed Content Production and Delivery Platform: Laying the Groundwork for Multi-Angle, Multi-Channel Broadcasting in the Broadband Age |
| June 1 |
NTT Develops Network Security Technologies for providing Advanced Commercial Services in IPv6 Internet
-- Enabling use of the Internet for secure leased lines and paid multicast networks -- |
| April 25 |
The Development of Japan's First Electronic Bidding System Capable of Proving the Authenticity of a Transaction to Third Parties
-- To be adopted by Yokosuka City as first electronic bidding system in Japanese local govermants --
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| April 17 |
Announcement of Royalty-free Licenses for Essential Patents of NTT Encryption and Digital Signature Algorithms |
| April 10 |
CRL, NTT, IIJ and MFEED Started Trial Provision of Japan Standard Time over the Internet |