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      "id": 100021,
      "date": "2000-08-09",
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      "title": "Japan's Telecommunications Deregulation: NTT's Access Fees and Worldwide Expansion",
      "summary": "In July 2000, the United States and Japan reach a negotiated settlement on Japan's costly rates\nfor\ntelecommunications companies to hook into the telephone network owned by the Nippon Telegraph\nand Telephone Company (NTT), Japan's dominant provider of telecom services. Japan agreed that\nNTT would lower its rates for regional access by 50% and local access by 20% over two years. NTT\nalso is attempting to acquire Verio, an Internet service provider in the United States.",
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