Telephone Directory Division, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 1-7, Uchisaiwai-cho, 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-19 Japan, Telephone: +81-3-3509-5052 Attn: Mr. Yamada

59 -- JAPAN: TELEPHONE MARKET RESEARCH/ TELEPHONE DIRECTORY AD SALES SYSTEM Sol KANPO 08-150 (TDD.02-208-1). Due 121196. POC NTT America, Inc., Head Office, 101 Park Avenue, 41st. Floor New York, NY 10178, 212/808-2296 also NTT America Inc., Pacific and Western Division 700 E. El Camino Real, Suite 200, Mountain View, CA 94040, 415/940-6565. This announcement (RFI) is to request provision of general reference materials from potential suppliers prior to a procurement announcement. This is not a Request for Proposal. This announcement does not necessarily promise that a procurement announcement will follow. No payment will be made for the information submitted. The Outline of system is as follows: (1) Name: Telephone Market Research / Telephone Directory Ad Sales System (2) Overview: This system is intended to support and manage market researches by telephone, and advertisement sales of telephone directory. (i) Technical information -a. Information for operational processing functions -b. Information for communication functions -c. Other information (ii) Prices -a. Market price of products -b. The concept of license cost (iii) Standard time of delivery after ordering (iv) Records of sales and installation (v) Others (positive proposals which may benefit NTT's enterprises) (3) Deadline for FRI: 3:00 pm, December 11, 1996 (Mail must arrive no later than the above date.) (4) Addresses to send information for RFI: Telephone Directory Division, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 1-7 Uchisaiwai-cho, 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-19 Japan, Telephone: +81-3-3509-5052. Attn: Mr. Yamada or NTT America, Inc., Head Office, 101 Park Avenue, 41st Floor New York, NY 10178, also NTT America, Inc., Pacific and Western Division 700 E. El Camino Real, Suite 200 Mountain View, CA 94040, U.S.A. (5) Language: Japanese or English (6) Misc: The above public notice is the plan as of today and is subject to change. For further information or inquiries, please contact the above mentioned person. (330)

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