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Fwd: NTT announced New Strategy on Multi-media
From: David J Farber <farber () radiomail net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 08:31:41 PST
----- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 00:38:02 +0900 From: izumi () glocom ac jp Subject: NTT announced New Strategy on Multi-media To: farber () central cis upenn edu While Mr Gore is making announcment at Superhighway Summit, NTT today announced its New Strategy to Multi-media networking emphasising the basic shift from network-driven to customer-driven. Details are not yet avialble to my desk, it says that a fundamental change in telecommunications business is inevitable, based mostly on the technological innovation around digital and computer networking as well as fiber and wireless. The conventioanl telephone business with service-provider centric structure will be changed into more customized services that user can choose more freely, in a dynamic way. Referring to what;s happening in U.S., a new multi-media network will be emerged, making communications industry as the leading industry towards the next century. It also says that the National Government's support is essential for telecommunicaitons industry's future development (sounds like a bit 'political' statement, I felt). And for NTT specificaly, while keeping the 'universal service' concept with telephone business, it will also put major effort on developing new kind of businesses in cooperation with Information Providers, manufactures as well as customers. And it will put priority to LAN-LAN highspeed computer networking service urgently, among other things. It will also make effort for personal communications such as PHP. For visual, or multi-media networking, cooperative development with IP, manufactures and customers will be the main direction. It also said that NTT will promote 'open and high performance network' to be developed. According to some sources, NTT will be one of the first of telephone common carriers in the world that will put major effort on flat, internetworking type of communications business which is fundamentally different from the telephone network architecture. Whether this strategy will come true or not still requires alot of time, effort and good observation, the startegy announced today is the result of about 1 year(or perhaps more) of internal study around the various new fileds of technologies including Internetworkin, Personal computers, multi-media and so on. I guess NTT is making a rather serious shift of thier own business strategy. They are quite aware of the fact that they are rather behind, from US or other Wetern counterparts. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Izumi Aizu Research Director Institute for HyperNetwork Society and Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan
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