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What's wrong with NTT? Always found them to be a reliable, and they've been the main driver of innovation in dragging the ISP industry towards modern standards.

• jchb 6y ago
  Second that, what's wrong with NTT? 250mbit fiber for a fraction of what it would cost in the US. IPv6 ready. Basically no down time in 5 years. Very polite service staff. Sure, if you look at how they design their websites, signup process and router UX, it's... a bit special (from a "western" perspective) ... But it works.
• ev1 6y ago
  NTT the carrier and NTT Docomo (the horrid mobile phone provider that I was forced to use on a trip there) are different, probably.
  • numpad0 6y ago
    I don’t think they are any worse than any comparable regional largest telcos in the world ... better than SoftBank at least.
    • presentation 6y ago
      Looks like Japan's telco sector is going through a US T-Mobile moment, with Rakuten Mobile trying to drive the prices down with a free year of service and a cheap prepaid unlimited data plan, chock full with change and hope rhetoric. They even use practically the same color as T-Mobile!
  • hrktb 6y ago
    NTT Docomo has its quirks from the customer POV (in particular they are pricy), but as a company I see them as stellar and incredibly flexible in their operating context. I mean, they brought customer installable java apps way earlier to the game, and it was miles ahead of the crap J2ME that stack of western phones. They brought imode when other countries where toying with wap. Then NFC based electronic payment years before anyone else, GPS apps etc. I worked with one of their phone QA team for a while, and they were unsurprisingly pragmatic, very clever on the trade-offs and cared a lot more about what you had to say than if you came with a white shirt. As much as NTT can be a very old and dusty company, NTT Docomo was at least for a very long time a very dynamic and forward thinking company.
• hardwaresofton 6y ago
  Well it's a massive company so of course there is variation in it's groups but I know NTT Data does cool stuff from time to time, contributes to postgres and I love them for that. No idea what the rest of the company is like, but innovation is somewaht hard to come by in Japan, so it's reasonable to expect most companies to not really be pushing the envelope. Ironically, NTT contributing to a no-bullshit rock-solid open source tool like Postgres is par for the course -- it's great that they're pushing innovations inside Postgres, but technically from an outside lens it's a conservative place to invest. [0]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NTT https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NTT
• fomine3 6y ago
  They're great for infrastructure operator but not good service operator.
• ekianjo 6y ago
  Not talking about NTT the internet provider. NTT does a lot more than that. They have a nebula of companies.