For Immediate Release
February 6, 1998
NTT Offers Scheme for Providing Network Functions over the Internet
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) will provide information on "Plans for Revisions and Additions of Functions to Designated Telecommunications Facilities" (Scheme for Providing Network Functions) over its Internet homepage (please see attachment for details).Priory, NTT has voluntarily been offering its "Public Announcement of Network Functions"*1 to ensure fairness amongst operators and to promote smooth interconnection.
Now that a law on Basic Rules for Interconnection has come into force, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications requires that all revisions and additions of functions to designated telecommunications facilities should be filed and made public*2. Accordingly, NTT submitted today to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications "Plans for Revisions and Additions of Functions to Designated Telecommunications Facilities" (Scheme for Providing Network Functions).
NTT will continue, as before, to make public announcements of all Scheme for Providing Network Functions (please see attachment for details) .
*1 "Definite Plans for Clarification of Procedures and Other Matters Concerning Negotiations on Interconnection" (Reported to MPT and made public on March 31, 1995; revised August 31, 1995)
*2 Chapter 39, Section 2 of the Telecommunications Business Law (Issued November 17, 1997)
Notification of Plan after Filing
* NTT Homepage(http://www1.nttinfo.ntt.co.jp/hqs/nttopen/moukinou/index.html) When: As soon as preparations are completed following filing of the plan with the MPT.
Note: All information on the homepage is currently listed in Japanese, but preparations are underway to provide them also in English in the future.
* Viewing of papers at NTT Information Station and/or the interconnection promotion office at any NTT Regional Headquarters (as required by the Telecommunications Business Law).
When: Within 7 days from filing of plan with the MPT.
* Listing in official gazette (as required by the Telecommunications Business Law).
When: Within 30 days from filing of plan with the MPT.
* Seminar
When: Approximately 1 month after the filing of plan with the MPT.
