August 17, 2018 Request for Change of Business Operators Utilizing Wholesale of Optical Access Line Services of NTT East/West

In response to a report recently issued by the Taskforce for Ideal Changes of Business Operators Utilizing Wholesale of Optical Access Line Services of NTT East/West (Chief Investigator: Professor Ikufumi Niimi, School of Law at Meiji University), the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has requested Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation (NTT East, headed by President Fukuzo Inoue) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation (NTT West, headed by President Mitsuyoshi Kobayashi) to take appropriate measures to make it possible to change business operators based on the report.

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