Declare firm opposition to SOFTBANK, 9 companies such as KO OPTICOM of eo Hikari

Regarding the system concerning lawsuits that SOFTBANK issued against NTT East and West,I firmly oppose the introduction of the branch unit connection fee system"As a result, nine regional access telecommunications carriers jointly expressed opposing opinions.

In short, Softbank's argument is unfair and it only unilaterally imposes facility cost risk on NTT East and West, so we have invested in physical infrastructure at our company just like NTT East and NTT West, Companies such as Kei Opticom are lost their competitiveness and will be ridden free, and since the efforts so far turn into bubbles, it is very cheap! That's why.

K-Opticom | Press Releases | Regional access related to "Setting of branch unit connection fee system" Nine opposing opinions of telecommunications carriers
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The following nine companies announced the opposition this time.

K-Opticom Corporation
Hokkaido Integrated Network Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Intelligent Communication Co., Ltd.
Chubu Telecommunications Co., Ltd.
Hokuriku Communication Network Co., Ltd.
Energia Communications Co., Ltd.
STNet Corporation
Kyushu Communication Network Co., Ltd.
Okinawa Telecommunications Network Co., Ltd.

It is quite different from ordinary releases and announcements, and it is quite intense with the feeling that "disagree", "setting of branch unit connection fee system is not necessary at all", "the public eventually suffers a disadvantage" It is getting.

Below, the impact is getting bigger just by extracting only a part of the underlined part.

· The problem of the first point is that the service provider burdens only a part of the equipment cost and put costs on NTT East and West.


· The second problem is that by sharing facilities, incentives for technological innovation do not work for any business, resulting in stagnation of the evolution of optical access networks.


· It is the same as providing the service such as "○ ○ with FLET'S" as an ISP company, and since the environment for entering the business is already in place, setting of the branch unit connection fee system is not necessary at all.
· Because we have the same problem as the branch unit connection fee system by OSU sharing, we will oppose introduction.

· Even in the current situation, the competitive environment is functioning properly, and introduction of branch unit connection fee system is not necessary.


· To carefully change the system and to distort the fair competitive environment without sufficiently considering the possible initiatives under the current system is only unilaterally advantageous for connected companies that borrow them, We firmly oppose ourselves, as we deny the efforts of regional access business operators and CATV operators who have taken risks themselves by investing in facilities and contributing to the promotion of regional broadband.
· People suffer disadvantage in the end

Although it does not name SOFTBANK truly indeed, even if reading from the vertical or reading from the side the essence of the problem is the very thing that SOFTBANK is saying, it is the fact declaration of declaration of war.

It is important to know what effect it will have in the future.