Infrastructure (Telecom) Significance of Telecommunications Markets
Major
Points of the 1985 Telecommunications Reform (the
First Info-communications Reform) --
A.
From Monopoly to Competition
Introduction
of the principle of competition to services
for which carriers establish their own
telecommunications facilities
(Classified as Type I carriers)
Liberalization
of circuit usage
(Classified as Type II carriers)
Deregulation
of terminal equipment
(Liberalization of sales of telephone sets)
B.
Deregulation of NTT's Activities by Introduction
of Principle of Competition
Abolition
of the principle that tariffs should be
approved by the Diet
Tariff
approval by the Diet
Tariff
approval by the Minister of Posts and
Telecommunications
Abolition
of the principle that budgets should be
approved by the Diet
General Section
