March 23, 2009
Telecommunications Business Sub-Council
Telecommunications and Postal Services Council

Results of Re-Invitation for Public Comment on Draft Changes to
Interconnection Tariffs Concerning Category I Designated
Telecommunications Facilities of NTT East and NTT West

Pricing of fiscal 2009 interconnection charges for next-generation networks

On Thursday, January 29, 2009, the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications consulted the Telecommunications and Postal Services Council with regard to the authorization of changes to interconnection tariffs concerning Category I designated telecommunications facilities of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation (Measures on interconnection tariffs concerning next-generation network interconnection rules).

In response, the Council invited public comment on the draft changes from January 30 until March 2, 2009. It invited public comment again from March 4 until March 17, 2009 and received six comments.

Background to the changes

Interconnection tariffs are to be changed to set the interconnection charges in fiscal 2009 for the following functions concerning next-generation networks of NTT East and NTT West:
(1) General local station router connection routing transmission function
(2) Gateway switch connection routing transmission function

(3) General relay station router connection routing transmission function


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