Materiality 1: Promotion of Innovation Centered on Telecommunications
Values We Embrace (1) Molding Future Society
Through Satellite Growth Strategy centered on communications, promote innovation that customers can experience in their daily lives and create a future society.
KDDI's Strengths
- Support for startups with advanced technologies and collaboration with various companies
- More than 50 years of history, experience, and technical know-how in satellite communications
- Utilization of mobile radio waves in the sky by utilizing our know-how and expertise in the telecommunications business
Initiatives
- KDDI to invest ¥100 billion in large-scale computing infrastructure to support generative AI development (in Japanese only)Open in a new window
- Nomura Research Institute, ELYZA, and KDDI partnered to provide generative AI services for business clientsOpen in a new window
- Sharp and KDDI Enter into Memorandum of Understanding Regarding AI Data CenterOpen in a new window
Progress of Mid-Term Sustainability Targets (FY2022-FY2025)
| Details of implementation | Index | FY2021 results[1] |
FY2022 results |
FY2023 results |
FY2024 results |
FY2025 targets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Promoting business creations and R&D projects based on the Satellite Growth Strategy | Number of projects (cumulative total) | 21 | 20 | 44 | 70 | 80 |
| Providing LX Services in collaboration with local governments | Expansion of LX Service provision areas and number of facilities | |||||
| Promoting innovation to strengthen intellectual capital | Number of patents held in 5G/Beyond 5G + the Satellite Growth-related areas | - | Year on year grew 24% | Year on year grew 23% | Year on year grew 21% | Year on year grew 15% |
Values We Embrace (2) Realization of sustainable industrial / infrastructure environment
Realize a sustainable industrial / infrastructure environment by providing innovative solutions for communications and other social infrastructure / connected vehicles.
KDDI's Strengths
- Diverse capabilities such as telecommunication infrastructure, DX knowledge, know-how, human resources, etc.
- Experience and achievements accumulated as a top runner in the IoT field
- Co-creation of business with partner companies with diverse areas of expertise
Initiatives
- Launch of store development solutions for retail (in Japanese only)Open in a new window
- Successful real-time transmission of 3D point cloud data from tunnel construction sites using Starlink (in Japanese only)Open in a new window
- KDDI, Altius Link, and ELYZA jointly develop LLM application specialized for contact centers (in Japanese only)Open in a new window
Progress of Mid-Term Sustainability Targets (FY2022-FY2025)
| Details of implementation | Index | FY2021 results |
FY2022 results |
FY2023 results |
FY2024 results |
FY2025 targets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contribution to industry/ infrastructure DX |
IoT connections (cumulative total) | 25,251 thousand connections | 32,787 thousand connections | 42,306 thousand connections | 51,038 thousand connections | 57,500 thousand connections |
| Promoting customer workstyle reforms | Adoption rate of solutions supporting workstyle reforms for KDDI business customers | - | 7% | 31% | 35% | 37% |
| Expand 5G coverage | 5G population coverage governmental target 99% by FY2030 | |||||
| Eradication of major incidents | Number of serious incidents (equipment failures)
|
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For details on our Medium-Term Sustainability Targets (FY2022–FY2025), please click here.
- *1Reference data for outside the Mid-Term Sustainability Targets period.