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No.12, March 16, 2011

- STATISTICS
- Quarterly Data on Telecommunications Service Contract Numbers and Market Share Published (FY 2010 Q2 (End of September 2010))
- TOPICS
- Announcement regarding Status of Cable Television Digitization
No.11, February 24, 2011

- STATISTICS
- State of Numbers of Contracted Telecommunications Service Subscribers, etc.
- TOPICS
- Results of Terrestrial Digital Broadcasting Penetrance Survey
No.10, February 1, 2011

- STATISTICS
- Quarterly Data on Telecommunications Service Contract Numbers and Market Share Published (FY 2010 Q1 (End of June 2010))
- TOPICS
- Results from Election of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Council
- TOPICS
- Election of Radio Regulations Board (RRB) Members of International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- TOPICS
- Summary of Outcome from APEC Ministerial Meeting on Telecommunications and Information Industry
- TOPICS
- Outcome of First Director-General Level Meeting concerning the US ― JAPAN Policy Cooperation Dialogue on the Internet Economy
No.9, December 24, 2010

- TOPICS
- Results of First Japan-Korea Cloud Computing Policy Dialogue
- TOPICS
- "2009 Assessment of State of Competition in Telecommunications Business Field" Published
No.8, October 15, 2010

- TOPICS
- "The Hikari Broadband Utilization Study Team": Publication of interim report
- TOPICS
- Results of the Second Japan-ASEAN Information Security Policy Meeting
No.7, October 1, 2010

- TOPICS
- APT Disaster Management Workshop Results
- TOPICS
- Results of April 2010 "Survey of Communications and Broadcasting Industry Trends" (Initial Report)
No.6, August 6, 2010

- TOPICS
- Adoption of Japanese System for Terrestrial Digital Television Broadcasting in the Multi-ethnic Nation of Bolivia
- STATISTICS
- Official Announcement of the Quarterly Data Concerning the Number of Telecommunication Services Subscriptions and Market Share (Fourth Quarter of the FY 2009)
- STATISTICS
- Publication of the ICT Global Competitiveness Index for 2010
No.5, July 30, 2010

- TOPICS
- Announcement of official report on the "Investigative Commission on the activation policy of the Cloud Computing Era Data Center"
- STATISTICS
- The spread of cable television
No.4, July 2, 2010

- TOPICS
- "The Hikari Broadband Utilization Study Team" : Publication of interim report
- TOPICS
- Results of the Second Japan-ASEAN Information Security Policy Meeting
No.3, June 18, 2010

- TOPICS
- Communications Usage Trend Survey in 2009 Compiled
- TOPICS
- Communications Usage Trend Survey in 2009 Compiled
No.2, June 4, 2010

- TOPICS
- "The Hikari Broadband Utilization Study Team": Publication of interim report
- TOPICS
- Results of the Second Japan-ASEAN Information Security Policy Meeting
No.1, April 30, 2010

- TOPICS
- Establishment of the "Japan-Brazil Wireless Broadband Promotion Forum"
- TOPICS
- Signing of a Memorandum on the implementation of the Japanese digital terrestrial television broadcasting system in Ecuador