Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Headquarters at Otemachi 1st Square in Ōtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Native name	日本電信電話株式会社
Romanized name	Nippon Denshin Denwa kabushiki gaisha
Company type	Public
Traded as	TYO: 9432 Nikkei 225 component (9432) TOPIX Core30 component (9432)
Industry	Telecommunications
Predecessor	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
Founded	April 1, 1985; 40 years ago (1985-04-01)
Founder	Government of Japan
Headquarters	Ōtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Jun Sawada (chairman) Akira Shimada (president and CEO)
Products	Fixed line telephone Mobile telephony Broadband Digital television Internet television IT and network services
Revenue	¥11.94 trillion (2021)[1]
Operating income	¥1.67 trillion (2021)[1]
Net income	¥1.12 trillion (2021)[1]
Total assets	¥22.96 trillion (2021)[1]
Total equity	¥8.20 trillion (2021)[1]
Owner	Minister of Finance (34.25%)[2]
Number of employees	303,350 (2021)[1]
Parent	NTT Group [ja]
Subsidiaries	NTT Docomo NTT Communications NTT Comware Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation [ja] Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation [ja] NTT Data NTT Urban Solutions [ja] NTT Anode Energy [ja]
Website	group.ntt global.ntt

The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation^[a] (NTT) is a Japanese telecommunications holding company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Ranked 55th in Fortune Global 500, NTT is the fourth largest telecommunications company in the world in terms of revenue,^[3] as well as the third largest publicly traded company in Japan after Toyota and Sony, as of June 2022.^[4] In 2023, the company was ranked 56th in the Forbes Global 2000.^[5] NTT was the world's largest company by market capitalization in the late 1980s, and remained among the world's top 10 largest companies by market capitalization until the burst of the Dot-com bubble in the early 2000s.^[6]

The company traces its origin to the national telegraph service established in 1868, which came under the purview of the Ministry of Communications in the 1880s. In 1952, the telegraph and telephone services were spun off as the government-owned Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (日本電信電話公社, Nippon Denshin Denwa Kōsha, shortened to Den-Den Kōsha (電電公社)). Under Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, the company was privatised in 1985 along with the Japanese National Railways and the Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, adopting the current name.^[7] While NTT has been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since 1985, the Japanese government still owns roughly one-third of NTT's shares, regulated by the NTT Law.

The company is incorporated pursuant to the NTT Law (Law Concerning Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Etc.^[b]).^[8] The purpose of the company defined by the law is to own all the shares issued by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation [ja] (NTT East) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation [ja] (NTT West) and to ensure proper and stable provision of telecommunications services all over Japan including remote rural areas by these companies as well as to conduct research relating to the telecommunications technologies that will form the foundation for telecommunications. On 1 July 2019, NTT Corporation launched NTT Ltd., an $11 billion de facto holding company business consisting of 28 brands from across NTT Security, NTT Communications and Dimension Data.^[9]

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