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There’s a lot of snickering from other parts of the world when they find out that some people in Japan still use fax machines, but an an even more old-school communications method is still an option too.
NTT is a name you’ll hear often in Japan. It’s the country’s biggest telecommunications company, operating both Docomo, Japan’s largest mobile phone network, and Flet’s Hikari, one of the top Internet service providers.
The N in NTT stands for “Nippon,” one of the ways to say “Japan” in Japanese (yes, there’s more than one), and the second T stands for “telephone,” which tracks with the company’s current business operations. But that first “T?” It stands for “telegraph,” since telegram services were a major cornerstone of NTT’s business when the company was founded in 1952.
However, unlike its U.S. counterpart American Telephone and Telegraph, which continues to go by AT&T out of tradition, NTT’s name isn’t just a way to maintain a symbolic connection to its company history, because, to this day, you can still have NTT deliver a telegram for you.
