The government will impose looser regulations than previously planned on Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. according to a new outline of two amendments to laws governing the dominant carrier's operations, government sources said Tuesday.
The move signals a departure from the initial draft amendments that called for three NTT units to be designated "domineering enterprises" that should be subject to stricter rules to allow more competition.
They referred to the carrier's two local phone service units, NTT East Corp. and NTT West Corp., and NTT DoCoMo Inc., the mobile phone arm of NTT.