Japan uneasy at prospect of NTT’s monopoly

JAPAN UNEASY AT PROSPECT OF NTT's MONOPOLY
[SOURCE: Financial Times, AUTHOR: David Turner]
A senior Japanese official has called for new regulations to prevent NTT, the world’s biggest listed telecommunications company, from abusing its dominant position in the domestic market as it prepares to offer joint fixed-line and mobile services. Yasu Taniwaki, director of competition policy at the telecommunications ministry, said a “new framework” was needed simply “to keep up” with NTT’s decision to announce fixed-mobile services, while the ministry planned to “investigate whether the merging of the [fixed-line and mobile] markets is going to cause dominance” by NTT.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/79b636b2-5339-11db-99c5-0000779e2340.html
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