Precise Services and Charges

To provide better support for the multimedia age, NTT is planning to introduce both the flat rate for existing services including the telephone and ISDN services and new services including those provided in the multimedia collaborative service experiment.

Introduction of the flat rate for existing services

Item Description Service start period
(reference)
Telephone Introduces the flat rate selectively for the "Midnight and early morning" time zone (11:00 p.m. to 08:00 a.m.). TeleHodai 1800 (1800/month) August, '95
TeleHodai 3600 (3600/month) 3rd quarter, '95
ISDN Introduces the flat rate selectively mainly for personal computer communications purposes in the midnight time zone (slack hours). 4th quarter, '95
Frame relay Introduces the flat rate for the best-effort type, e.g., for connecting to the Internet (communication enabled when the network has an idle). '96
New service introduction plan
Item Description Service start period (reference)
Cell relay (6 Mbps) Service independent of the distance, such as for inter-LAN communications, and very cheap (1/100 of packet communication charge) in communication charge per unit information 2nd quarter, '95
Best-effort type, flat-rate service, e.g., for backbone for Internet connection '97
ATM
high-speedservice *		 High-speed communications service using ATM technology (150 Mbps) '97
Connection-less multimedia communications service * Network service using the Internet protocol (IP) for routing '97
Video-oriented multimedia communications service * Optical line service for video services such as CATV and video on demand '97
* These services have been or will be provided in the multimedia collaborative