KDD and Teleway to integrate multimedia-related services

Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd. (KDD) and Teleway Corporation (Teleway), with the planned merger on December 1 this year, will integrate their Internet, Frame Relay and Cell Relay services respectively to be provided under the new labels with partial revisions of their terms and conditions.
The companies today filed with the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications applications for approval, subject to which the service integration and the new terms and conditions will be put into effect from December 1.
The new services after the integration are summarized as follows:

1. "KDD FR/CR Service" - a new Frame Relay/Cell Relay service

KDD's Frame Relay service "KDD FrameLink" and international ATM service "KDD GlobaLink ATM" will be integrated with Teleway's Frame Relay service "TWINS FR" and Cell Relay service "TWINS CR" to make a new consolidated service "KDD FR/CR Service."
This will enable customers of KDD FR/CR Service to use domestic and international Frame Relay and Cell Relay services interchangeably through the single access facilities.
KDD FR/CR Service, in which customers are to be tied to KDD Corporation with the access facilities, establishes logical links(Note 1) between the customers and their domestic and/or overseas counterparts via the Frame Relay or the Cell Relay with speeds from 0kbps(Note 2) to 135Mbps, giving overall satisfaction to customer needs for data transmission from low speed to high speed.
Also, for the first time in Japan as a consolidated domestic and international service, it is characterized by a simple rate structure, i.e., uniform rates in each of domestic and international services without any differentiation by distance or destination, benefiting customers with some average 20% savings on their actual usage.

Note 1:	A logical link is a logical communication path established between a certain pair of users within the network by header information contained in a frame or a cell. Logical links in the Cell Relay come in two types of services: "Constant Bit Rate (CBR)" which guarantees a certain speed anytime and "Variable Bit Rate (VBR)" which provides an average speed available.
Note 2:	A logical link with 0kbps has no guaranteed speed.

2. "NEWEB" - a new Internet service

KDD's Internet gateway service "Internet KDD" and TelewayÕs Internet access service "Teleway Sirius" will be integrated to form a new Internet service "NEWEB."
This will enable KDD Corporation to satisfy varied and detailed customer needs and provide an overall service in the Internet ranging from furnishing backbones for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to Internet access services for individual and business customers.

NEWEB consists of three types of services: "Gateway Service" which is designed to furnish high quality backbones to mainly ISPs, "Access Service" which provides high quality Internet access to individual and business customers connecting through telephone lines or dedicated circuits, and "Server Hosting Service" which houses customersÕ servers at KDD CorporationÕs site and connect them to backbones with LAN cables, facilitating easy dissemination of information.

Customers can choose the most appropriate options among the rich menu of NEWEB in accordance with their usage patterns and frequencies.
Dial-up services, for example, line up from a usage-sensitive option for beginners to a fixed-rate option with unlimited usage for frequent users, to accommodate customersÕ requirements.

Beginning with these "KDD FR/CR Service" and "NEWEB," KDD Corporation, from December 1 on, will undertake to provide various multimedia-related services for customers' total satisfaction.

I. Service Description

"KDD FR/CR Service" - a new Frame Relay/Cell Relay service

(1) Types of Service
There are three types of service available as follows, in each of domestic and international services, in accordance with customers' requirements:

	Access	Speed
Type 1 Digital Data Transmission Service	Dedicated Access	12 speeds from 64kbps to 150Mbps
Type 2 Digital Data Transmission Service	Housing (Direct Connection)	12 speeds from 64kbps to 150Mbps
Type 3 Digital Data Transmission Service	ATM Dedicated Access	0.5Mbps, and 1Mbps-135Mbps with 1Mbps increments

(2) Logical Link

	Type	Speed
Category 1 (Frame Relay Logical Link)	- domestic/international logical link - domestic/international application server logical link - domestic/international interconnection logical link - interconnection application server logical link	13 speeds from 0kbps to 1Mbps
Category 2 (Cell Relay Logical Link/CBR)	- international logical link	64kbps - 1.5Mbps, and 2Mbps - 135Mbps with 1Mbps increments
Category 3 (Cell Relay Logical Link/VBR)	- domestic/international logical link	16kbps - 1.5Mbps, and 2Mbps - 135Mbps with 1Mbps increments
Category 4 (Interwork Logical Link)	- domestic/international logical link	13 speeds from 0kbps to 1Mbps

"NEWEB" - a new Internet service

Service	Menu		Description
Gateway Service	Dedicated Access LAN Access		Gateway service mainly for international use, with speeds from 1.5Mbps to 100Mbps. Two types of charge options: monthly variable and monthly fixed.
Access Service	Dedicated Access	Access 1	Service with speeds from 64kbps to 6Mbps.
		Access 2	Economical service with shared use of a port segment in Access 1.
		Access 3	Service using OCN access lines.
	Dial-up Access	Dial 1	Usage-sensitive service (no basic charge) with 12 yen per minute anywhere in Japan.
		Dial 2	Service with basic charge (800 yen up to 5 hours) + usage charge (5 yen per minute beyond 5 hours), with 3,000 yen cap.
		Dial 3	Fixed-rate service with 1,850 yen per month.
	LAN Access	Enterprise	Service with LAN cable (10 BASE-T) connection.
	Virtual Access		Service furnishing dial-up access facility.
Server Hosting Service	Server Housing		Housing customers' servers at KDD site mainly for dissemination of information
	Server Rentals		Providing customers with capacity of KDD prepared WWW servers.

Note:

For Dial-up Access, charges for Dial 1 include telephone charges to an access point, while those for Dial 2 and 3 do not include them.