In these 6 months, NTT Data Communications Services revenue growth not enough to offset the decline in voice services, resulting in group revenue fell 3.2% to 4.99 trillion yen (about 55.5 billion U.S. dollars). This is the company since 1999, half of income for the first time less than 5 trillion yen.
NTT’s operating profit fell 13.2% to 646.7 billion yen. Pillars of the Group’s earnings – Mobile copy phone Communications DoCo-Mo, and voice calls for mobile phone GPS sales revenue, earnings for the Group caused a greater negative impact. NTT Group, said that mobile phone sales decline will not last forever, but it is undoubtedly a difficult situation.
From the main subsidiary of the Group’s performance under the point of view, half of the fiscal year, DoCoMo’s operating profit fell 15.9% to 485.2 billion yen; Data Communications NTTData’s operating profit fell 25.1% to 33.4 billion yen; local telephone companies NTT East Corporation’s operating profit fell 56.6%, to 322 billion yen, operating profit of the company’s western region increased by 1.7 times to 176 billion yen; long-distance and international companies NTTCommuni-cation of the operating profit down by 2.9%, to 528 billion yen.
From the business segment of view, the most serious is the decline in voice communication services, fixed telephone and mobile phone voice service revenues were down compared with same period in 2008, 121.3 billion yen and 950 billion yen. Meanwhile, the data communications services revenue increased 119.2 billion yen, including from the fixed telephone and mobile phone data services revenue increased by 77.3 billion yen and 419 billion yen.
NTT lowered its revenue forecast for the fiscal year, 10.3 trillion yen from the previous down to 10.17 trillion yen, a decline in revenue will force companies to take measures to reduce costs.
