Quake in Japan takes USD1.35 billion toll on NTT
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. estimated the financial damage from last month’s earthquake and tsunami at 110 billion yen (USD 1.35 billion) groupwide. About 65,000 of NTT’s electric poles, mostly in northeastern Japan, were disabled. And 41 buildings were either destroyed or flooded. Cellular phone base stations and optical cables were damaged as well.......