Nippon Telegraph and Telephone - Definition and Overview

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (日本電信電話 Nippon Denshin Denwa) is a telephone company that dominates the telecommunication market in Japan. Once established as a monopoly public corporation, commonly known as denden kosha, the company was later privatized to encourage competition in the telecom market.

As a group corporation, it consists of the following major companies:

• NTT East
• NTT West
• NTT Data
• NTT DoCoMo (mobile operator)
• NTT Communications

Ownership

Japan government: 46%

See also

• Telephone
• Telegraph
• Verio

External links

• NTT homepage (http://www.ntt.co.jp/index_e.html)
• Yahoo! - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Company Profile (http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/41/41780.html)