Japan’s leading communication company, NTT Communications (News - Alert), has announced an expansion plan in Thailand. Through a recent press release, this wholly-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has announced that its will be opening a branch office in Ayutthaya, Thailand on September 30. The new branch is expected to give the company greater reach over the offices located in the nearby industrial areas.
With the Ayutthaya Branch, NTT Communications will be opening their third branch office. The company targets the multinational companies in Thailand as its clients and the Ayutthaya Branch office will help the Japanese companies to provide ICT solutions including network, data center and security, system integration and Internet access service.
NTT Communications has already earned a global reputation for its broad range of global networks, management solutions and IT services. The company has also earned recognition for reliable, high-quality security, hosting, voice, data and IP services, as well as expertise in managed networks and leadership in IPv6 transit technology. NTT Communications’ extensive infrastructure includes Arcstar Global IP-VPN and Global e-VLAN, as well as a Tier-1 IP backbone reaching more than 150 countries in partnership with major Internet service providers, and secure data centers in Asia, North America and Europe.
The historical city of Ayutthaya is situated 70 km north of Bangkok. A prosperous capital city of yesteryears, Ayutthaya was reborn as a modern industrial city in the 1990’s. Since then, the city has come to be known as a large-scale industrial estate and developed as an industrial district to attract many companies. Over 500 Japanese and other multinational companies, including electronics and automotive manufacturers, are currently located in the region.
NTT Communications currently has a network of subsidiaries and offices across 73 cities in 29 countries/regions. The opening of the Ayutthaya Branch expands NTT Communication’s footprint in the South East Asian region.
“The launch of the new Ayutthaya branch office will enable NTT Com to access within 30 minutes neighboring industrial estates such as one of Thailand’s biggest, Rojana Industrial Park, and Hi-Tech Industrial Estate, where over sixty percent of the settled companies are from Japan, as well as Thailand’s first industrial estate, Nava Nakorn. NTT Com expects enhanced support and the immediate dispatch of engineers in case of trouble at the industrial estates,” Tsuyoshi Kawashima, Ayutthaya Branch manager and the concurrent president of NTT Communications (Thailand), explained.
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Edited by Beecher Tuttle