NTT ensures brewers don’t become has-beans

By David Turner in Tokyo

Published: September 26 2006 02:01 | Last updated: September 26 2006 02:01
Little companies such as Yamakawa Jozo, a soy sauce brewer in Gifu prefecture some 300 kilometres west of Tokyo, could make the difference to how long Nippon Telegraph and Telephone remains intact as the world’s largest telecommunications company.

NTT is building out a network that will raise the share of the country’s population with broadband access from 80 per cent to 100 per cent by 2010 at a cost of more than Y1,800bn ($15.5bn).