The activities of this company are concentrated on international connectivity. It has a closed network that favors the customers. I believe that before there is any move outside the country, the Japanese market will be reorganized. You can read about new alliances almost every day in the newspapers, but those alliances are mainly oriented to the local market. International activities are part of this reorganization, but they are slow to get off the ground.
Big carriers have a very clear relationship with one another.
On one hand, they compete, but on the other, they make contracts for basic connectivity. Carrier companies know each other very well. A recession always has winners and losers. There are businesses that do well even when the general economic situation is not so favorable. In terms of telecommunications, the Japanese market is growing rapidly.