The Japanese government plans to take action against NTT East and NTT West as the companies are engaging in practices that create barriers to healthy market competition. The communications ministry will ask the companies to submit reports on the practices and ways to improve them before the end of March, the Nikkei writes. Under the Telecommunications Business Law, companies that have a large share of a market are not allowed to give preferential treatment to any service provider and are also not allowed to use information gained through leasing networks to other providers for own marketing activities. However, these rules do not apply to subsidiaries and affiliates. NTT East and West may be mining customer information from lessees of their networks and have encouraged customers to sign up for NTT Communications’ internet services. Furthermore, NTT East and West have sold NTT DoCoMo mobile phones.
Wireless Federation » Govt to act against NTT East, West over competition concerns (Japan)
Govt to act against NTT East, West over competition concerns (Japan)
- February 19th, 2008
- 2:22 pm
