a. For the regional companies, NTT will provide all necessary advice, mediation, etc. to ensure the maintenance of high-quality and stable universal services.
b. NTT will support the efforts of each of the NTT Group companies to streamline their business operations and expand their business opportunities

In order to establish a next-generation network infrastructure to realize a network environment for ubiquitous broadband services that can offer customers not only "fast and convenient," but also "safe and secure" connections "anytime, anywhere and with anyone or anything," to achieve a seamless migration from fixed line to IP telephone services and from metal wire systems to optical fiber, NTT will actively promote research and development in the sphere of infrastructure- and user-related basic technologies, as well as advanced and basic technologies in order to respond to society's demands for the development of an advanced information and telecommunications network society.