As you were – although there were deemed to be no anti-trust reasons for dismembering Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp, an advisory panel to Japan’s Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications in an interim report recommended the division of the company and put forward three possible breakup scenarios – split the thing into regional companies, split it into two local and one long-distance company, or create two competing firms, each offering local and long distance services; a fourth option would be to divide it into a mobile telecommunications unit including cellular telephones, a telephone maintenance services and a sales unit charged with marketing telephone terminal equipment.
