February 6, 2003
Business Week: Why NTT Is Running Scared.
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. is lobbying hard to increase fees--by 8% to 13%--to swat down purveyors of Internet phone service, which it sees as a threat to its dominant position in Japan's $40 billion fixed-line phone business.
Network World: France Telecom launches WLAN initiative.
The company sees 802.11b wireless LAN as an enrichment of existing fixed and wireless Internet access services and will invest to make the technology widely available to business users and consumers, it said in a statement. No financial details were disclosed.
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