BRIEFING - ASIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS - OCT 29, 2003.

AsiaPulse News, October, 2003

Oct 29, 2003, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.

NTT TOPS WEB SITE RANKINGS BY NIKKO INVESTOR RELATIONS

TOKYO - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (TSE:9432) has the best Web site of any publicly traded Japanese company, according to an evaluation conducted by Nikko Investor Relations Co.

Nikko Investor Relations looked at about 3,600 firms whose shares are traded on the country's stock markets. Of these, 98 per cent have created Web sites. Nikko Investor Relations graded the sites on 60 criteria -- such as whether they post their annual reports and whether they offer search engines -- designed to assess a site's...