November 26, 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 November 26, 2004, an inquiry from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications on approval of a draft amendment of tariffs concerning interconnection to category 1 designated telecommunications facilities of NTT East and NTT West (Calculating interconnection charges for FY2003 using actual communications usage volume)

This matter regulates interconnection charges for FY2003 as being the settlement charges calculated using actual communication usage volume in this fiscal year. The setting of these settlement charges took place based on supplementary article No. 10 of the Ministerial Ordinance for a Partial Amendment to Regulations for Interconnection Charges (Ministerial Ordinance of MPHPT No. 80 of April 2003) since the actual communications usage volume for FY2003 (total hours of communications via subscriber exchanges) had moved at a rate higher than 15% in comparison with the communications volume used in calculating approved interconnection charges.

The council invites comments, in Japanese, concerning this draft amendment, until December 25, 2004.


The council will take the comments that are received into consideration in conducting its research and investigation, and will prepare a report for the Minister.

For details refer to the Japanese web site
http://www.soumu.go.jp/s-news/2004/041126_7.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.