Japan's NTT Com to seek telecom permit, expand ops in India

Japan's NTT Communications Corporation plans to seek telecom permit for providing information and communications technology (ICT) solutions to enterprises in India and will establish a branch office in Ahmedabad to begin offering services.
NTT Com will acquire a Unified License (telecom permit) for national long-distance services (NLD) that will allow it to provide domestic network services in India by the end of this year via a new group firm NTT Communications India Network Services Pvt Ltd, that will be established in May 2015, the company said in a statement.
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group, also said that its wholly owned subsidiary NTT Communications India Pvt Ltd (NTT Com India) will establish a branch office in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to begin offering ICT solutions in June 2015," the statement said.

"Once NTT Com obtains a Unified License, it will provide a range of network services urgently sought by enterprises that are expanding in India," the company said.
NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimise the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises.
Specific offerings will include secure, high-quality private network services, such as Internet based network services, connecting datacenters or the cloud computing services to the domestic sales or production bases of customers.

"By obtaining a Unified License, the NTT Com group will be permitted to offer total ICT solutions to enterprises in India," the statement said.

At present, NTT Com India is providing system-integration services and its another group company Netmagic Solutions offers datacentre and cloud services with its eight datacentres in India.
NTT had acquired Netmagic in 2012.
"Going forward, NTT Com looks forward to steadily expanding its ICT business infrastructure in India to help customers further accelerate their business development," the company said.
The Gujarat branch office will be NTT Com India's sixth office, following Gurgaon (Delhi), Neemrana, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore.