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| Nippon Telegraph and Telephone to Buy 250 ADSL Modems
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December 30, 1998 (TOKYO) -- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. made
public its procurement specifications for asymmetric digital subscriber
line (ADSL) modems on Dec. 21.
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This procurement is reportedly for the "ADSL Access Line" test service
planned for the autumn of 1999. With this disclosure of the number and
specifications of ADSL modems to be purchased, the size of NTT's planned
test service is becoming clear.
NTT's Request for Proposal specifications and the number of units are
as follows:
1) 250 ADSL Modems to be installed at user premises.
2) 250 voice frequency splitters to be installed at user premises.
3) 10 DSLAM (digital subscriber line access multiplexer) units to be
installed at NTT stations.
4) 10 station splitters to be installed at NTT stations.
5) two sets of "NE-OPS" monitoring and control devices.
NTT's delivery schedule lists the date of early September 1999. On Dec.
17, NTT said that ADSL access line services would be provided through
10 NTT stations in the Tokyo and Osaka areas. The planned test service
assumes 25 ADSL users per station (or for each DSLAM unit).
The trial service probably will not target regular customers including
home users, although NTT's basic strategy does not place a limit on
the number of trial service users. But without an adequate number of
customers, the unit costs and service costs will be high.
It appears that the ADSL service fees won't be sufficiently inexpensive
for general consumers.
Related story: Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone to Offer ADSL Service
(Nikkei
Communications)
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