Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center; padding:16px 0 16px 0;">Image:NTTlogo.gif</td></tr>
Type	Public (NYSE: NTT)
Founded	1985
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan <tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th><td>Norio Wada CEO</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Industry</th><td>Telecommunications</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Revenue</th><td>$89.1 billion USD (2005)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Operating income</th><td>$10.6 billion USD (2005)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Net income</th><td>$6.2 billion USD (2005)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Employees</th><td>201,500 (consolidated) (2005)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Subsidiaries</th><td>Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation NTT Communications Corporation NTT Data Corporation NTT DoCoMo, Inc.</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Website</th><td>www.ntt.co.jp</td></tr>

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (日本電信電話株式会社, Nippon Denshin Denwa Kabushiki-gaisha^?) (TYO: 9432 , NYSE: NTT), or NTT, is a telephone company that dominates the telecommunication market in Japan. Once established as a monopoly public corporation, the company was privatized in 1985 to encourage competition in the telecom market.