August 31, 2023 Release of Annual Report on Market Validation in Telecommunications Business Field (FY 2022), Basic Policy on Market Validation in Telecommunications Business Field, and Annual Plan for Market Validation in Telecommunications Business Field (FY2023) and Result of Appeal for Opinions on Drafts

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) made an appeal for opinions on the draft of a report entitled “Annual Report on Market Validation in Telecommunications Business Field (FY 2022)”, along with the drafts of the “Basic Policy on Market Validation in Telecommunications Business Field” and the “Annual Plan for Market Validation in Telecommunications Business Field (FY2023)” from Saturday, July 8 through Monday, August 7, 2023. Accordingly, MIC is now releasing the results of the appeal for opinions and the finalized version of the above Report, Basic Policy, and Annual Plan.

1. Results of appeal for opinions

Based on the Annual Plan for Market Validation in Telecommunications Business Field (FY2022), MIC drafted the Annual Report on Market Validation in Telecommunications Business Field (FY2022) (hereafter the “Draft Annual Report”).
In order to conduct market validation that integrates the analysis of market trends in the telecommunications business sector, and to confirm the appropriateness of telecommunications carriers’ operations, MIC has drafted the Basic Policy on Market Validation in the Telecommunications Business Field (hereafter the “Draft Basic Policy”), which sets forth our basic approach to Market Validation and the overall picture of the validation process, based on advice from MIC’s Meeting for Telecommunications Market Validation. In addition, MIC drafted the Annual Plan for Market Validation in the Telecommunications Business Field (FY2023) (hereafter the “Draft Annual Plan”), which sets forth the policy for conducting analysis and validation of market validation for fiscal 2023.
MIC made an appeal for opinions on these drafts from Saturday, July 8 through August 7, 2023, and received opinions from a total of 16 submitters (12 opinions for the Draft Annual Report, 8 for the Draft Basic Policy, and 12 for the Draft Annual Plan).

2. Publicly disclosed materials

With consideration of the submitted opinions and MIC’s views on them, MIC has finalized the report entitled “Annual Report on Market Validation in Telecommunications Business Field (FY2022),” along with the “Basic Policy on Market Validation in Telecommunications Business Field” and the “Annual Plan for Market Validation in the Telecommunications Business Field (FY2023)”, and decided to open them to the public.

* The published materials are in Japanese only.