None of this cuts any ice with the Research Committee for Telecommunications, advising the Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, whose report, due on March 10, is expected to recommend dividing Nippon Telegraph & Telephone into three major independent companies, one to handle long distance, one for local calls and one for cellular: the report is expected to be accepted by the government, with the split in 1995, after the company has an all-digital network in place; the report is expected to argue that NTT has no credible competitors comparable with MCI Communications or US Sprint and likes of NEC and Fujitsu have not mde much headway in attempts to get into data communications – and there is no phone company capable of competing abroad.
