Telecom story updated. (Upfront).We ran a story in our November November: see month. issue explaining why calling from a fixed line to a mobile phone, or keitai, is so much more expensive than keitai-to-keitai calls. Some fixed-line carriers argue that this is a conspiracy among mobile carriers to keep charges high. Here is the latest development: Heisei Denden, a fixed-line phone carrier, has requested Japan's telecom ministry to make mobile phone carriers -- NTT Docomo (NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc., Japan) Founded in 1991, NTT DoCoMo is a spinoff of Japan's NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) which provides wireless services, including cellular, paging, satellite and maritime and in-flight telephone services. , KDDI and Japan Telecom -- give the company a chance to patch through fixed-line-to-mobile calls. After being ignored by the mobile carriers, the company asked the ministry to mediate MEDIATE, POWERS. Those incident to primary powers, given by a principal to his agent. For example, the general authority given to collect, receive and pay debts due by or to the principal is a primary power. . Last November the telecom ministry took Heisei Denden's side, by saying that it's more appropriate for the company, instead of mobile carriers, to set the prices for these calls. Meanwhile, Heisei Denden had already launched the lowest priced fixed-line-to-keitai services (3 minutes for [yen]60) in Tokyo in early November. This was done without waiting for the ministry's mediation mediation, in law, type of intervention in which the disputing parties accept the offer of a third party to recommend a solution for their controversy. Mediation has long been a part of international law, frequently involving the use of an international commission, , enabling the company to avoid the interconnection in·ter·con·nect v. in·ter·con·nect·ed, in·ter·con·nect·ing, in·ter·con·nects v.intr. To be connected with each other: The two buildings interconnect. v.tr. issue by using overseas carriers instead. |
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