The Ministry of Posts and Communications and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said that a bill would be filed in the next regular session of the Diet to revise the present system. In essence, in the summer of 1984 they will reduce the charges on telephone calls between 60 and 350 kilometers by 20-50 yen per 3 minutes. By 1985 they want to introduce a system charging only the basic charge of 10 yen for 3 minutes for all calls within the same prefecture. NTT has been making massive profits. Each time it has been reducing rates it has expected that its income would decline, but in fact the cheaper rates have encouraged more calls, increasing income.
Profits seem perpetually higher than budget forecasts.
In 1982 profits were 3.4 times forecasts.