Press Release


March 17, 2003



NTT Com Announces Strategy for becoming Global IP Solution Company
Focuses on solutions, network management, security, and global services
TOKYO, JAPAN—NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) today announced a comprehensive strategy for transforming the company from a "Global IP Company" to a "Global IP Solution Company."

NTT Com achieved its previous goal of becoming a Global IP Company by shifting its core business from telephony services to global IP services starting in April 2000. Now entering the next phase of this transformation, NTT Com will build on the foundation it established in the first phase. Under the new strategy, the company will meet key IP-based needs of customers by focusing on four business domains—solutions, network management, security and global services—which together will provide the firm's main sources of new revenues.

Solutions

NTT Com will offer one-stop, total services for corporations, government bodies and individuals. Services to corporations and government bodies will support open IT systems and IP migration, as well as IT resource management. Solutions will cover areas such as multipurpose cards imbedded with IC memory chips and web-based call centers that incorporate VoIP technology.

For individuals, NTT Com will offer service packages that combine telephone, Internet, e-commerce and online content based on the "CoDen" (My Use) concept. NTT Com will offer personal solutions that provide individuals with comprehensive communications capabilities for information output, processing, storage and hosting. In the future, the company also plans to provide individuals with ubiquitous solutions and services based on IPv6 technology.

Specific Measures
Solutions for corporations and government bodies:
- IC card solutions for public transportation networks, payments, etc.
- VoIP solutions
Call centers incorporating customer relationship management (CRM)
Integrated voice/data VoIP solutions, including websites offering voice interfaces, such as teleconferencing

Personal solutions:
- CoDen
Storage, hosting and website creation for individuals
Content provision (UEFA soccer and other sporting events, etc.) and rich communications using VoIP
Security solutions, including those packaged with web-virus scanning services
Ubiquitous solutions that integrate home appliances and other devices using IPv6

Human resource solutions:
- Effective use of IT human resources, including IT staff training and outsourcing, in cooperation with NTT Com Cheo Corporation, an NTT Com group company1.


Network Management

NTT Com services will enable not only NTT Com networks, but also the increasingly diverse facilities and services of other carriers, to be managed on a one-stop, seamless, secure and highly simplified basis to realize a ubiquitous environment. These services will be enhanced by thoroughly standardizing internal IT-management processes in accordance with global practices.

Specific Measures
- Enhancement of IT resource management
- Introduction of "Ubiquitous Open Platform"2
- Introduction of "B2B EC Platform Service"3
- Global roaming for wireless LANs
- Introduction of IT management processes based on the IT Infrastructure Library, the UK government's compilation of best practices for IT services


Security

NTT Com will offer unsurpassed solutions to protect its customers from security risks. This will include developing network-safety services that incorporate authentication and IC-card security technologies. Also, NTT Com will establish an advisory panel of outside experts help the company improve the quality of its internal security management.

Specific Measures
- Expansion of "BLADE" e-authentication platform to include private companies, in addition to existing applications for governments
- Establish "Financial Settlement Platform Taskforce"
- Establish advisory panel for security issues
- Establish security operations center


Global Services

NTT Com will provide seamless domestic and international services on a global scale, using its international Tier 1 backbone and global data centers. Also, the company will strengthen business in China and other Asian markets where multinational companies are actively expanding their businesses.

Specific Measures
- Global disaster-recovery solutions4
- Strengthened business in China and other Asian markets
- Global partnerships
- Expansion of NTT/VERIO Global IPv6 Network


Note:
1: NTT Com Cheo Corporation
Wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Com that provides IT staff training. It also manages the "dot-com Master" examination that certifies the examinee's skills in Internet technology (among other benefits, successful examinees are qualified to serve as customer support staff for NTT Com's "OCN" Internet connection services).

2: Ubiquitous Open Platform
A universally available platform that incorporates IPv6 and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) technologies for the seamless connection of a wide range of devices.

3: B2B EC Platform Service
A platform for business-to-business e-commerce, offering flexibility, expandability, safety and reliability.

4:Global disaster-recovery solutions
Data back-up and replication of vital international systems.


About NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com)
NTT Com, a Tokyo-based subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, provides long-distance and international services for voice, video and data communication reaching more than 200 countries. NTT Com also provides world-class IP services under the NTT/VERIO brand, as well as managed data, multimedia and additional services under the Arcstar brand. For more information, please visit www.ntt.com


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