The Japanese government intends to share with private companies to develop a standard for ultra-high -definition video, AFP reports citing local media.

Since March this year in Japan, the efforts of NTT introduced a new generation of Internet- wide communication fiber-optic lines (NGN), which allows to transmit and receive much larger volumes of video and audio data.

As well as talking on the videophone and watch movies ' online ' with a high decidability Pictures, RIA ' Novosti '.

As reported on Monday, sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a detailed statement of the principles of the new system will be published on January 15. The need for this treatment due to the ministry a number of media companies, including KDDI and Softbank, NTT concerned the danger of monopolization of the market of Internet connections.

As a result, a specially formed committee has developed certain principles of ' fair competition in the telecom market '. It is expected that the ministry will document stipulated the need to maintain the prices of new subscriber lines around the current level. There will also be used in the feature to store mobile numbers when changing service provider company.

The plans of the ministry is moving most of the networks across the country to a new system, but in the NTT intend to bring to 2010 the number of users to 20 million.

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