To create a prosperous, vigorous and earth-friendly society, we will continue to provide true value for the business and social environments of the coming ICT-exploiting age.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is expected to play an extremely important role in Japan as a means of making the lives of individuals and the business environment more and more convenient and efficient, and of resolving ever more aggravated social issues, such as global warming, the aging of society with a declining birthrate, and depopulation in rural areas.

Japan leads the world in R&D and in the introduction of ICT infrastructures and platform facilities, as we can see in broadband networks, next-generation mobile phones, cloud computing and Home ICT.

Many ideas have been studied for services that aim to exploit ICT. Services that cannot be provided without a broadband network, such as video delivery, are already commercially available. We believe that it is essential to further promote and expand such application services and create business from them.

To further activate the use of ICT, it is necessary not only to create new business models but also to review regulatory aspects, and to adopt an attitude of willingness to change our own lifestyle and work style on the basis of values acquired by a high-level view of all aspects of society.

To usher in the age when these issues are resolved and ICT is fully exploited, we in the NTT Advanced Technology, as a core technical entity of the NTT Group, will incorporate and integrate not only the diverse leading-edge technologies developed in NTT Laboratories, such as networking, media processing, Japanese language processing, environmental, and nano-component technologies, but also other state-of-the-art technologies both from Japan and abroad, to provide value for our customers.

With a full understanding of the environment surrounding ICT and its future direction, we will continue to create the true value needed in the business and social environments of the coming ICT-exploiting age, and provide it to our customers in the form of comprehensive solutions.

Serving as an"Integrated-Value Provider"

NTT Advanced Technology Corporation
President

Takashi Hanazawa