October 19, 2004

Department on Telecommunications Business,
Information and Communications Council


MIC invites comments on draft amendment of tariffs concerning interconnection to category 1 designated telecommunications facilities of NTT East and NTT West




The Information and Communications Council received on October 19, an inquiry from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications concerning a draft amendment of tariffs concerning interconnection to category 1 designated telecommunications facilities of NTT East and NTT West (revision of interconnection charges for the optical signal branch subscriber line used to provide the shared access system).

This is the amendment of interconnection tariffs, based on article 33-2 of the Telecommunications Business Law, concerning the regulation relating to addition of points of interconnection on the facilities used to provide the shared access system, the revision of interconnection charges for the optical signal branch subscriber line, and the addition of information gathering fees for optically wired areas.

The council is inviting comments, in Japanese, concerning the draft amendment of interconnection tariffs until November 17, and, taking the comments into consideration in conducting its investigation, and will submit a report for the Minister.

For details refer to the Japanese web site
http://www.soumu.go.jp/s-news/2004/041019_5.html

For further information about this press release, please contact:

International Policy Division, International Affairs Department
Telecommunications Bureau
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Tel: (03) 5253-5920 Fax: (03) 5253-5924

Or visit
http://www.soumu.go.jp/joho_tsusin/eng/contact.html to fill in the inquiry form.