ＮＴＴ法改正案を閣議決定　ＮＨＫネット必須化の放送法も

　政府は１日の閣議で、ＮＴＴへの規制を一部緩和するＮＴＴ法改正案を決定した。国際競争力強化のため研究成果の開示義務を撤廃し、外国人役員の就任は全体の３分の１未満まで認める。番組のインターネット配信をＮＨＫの必須業務とする放送法改正案も決めた。松本剛明総務相は閣議後記者会見で、「できる限り早期に成立させるように取り組む」と語った。
　ＮＴＴ法改正案では、ＮＴＴと傘下地域会社の計３社で「日本電信電話」などの正式社名を変更できるようにする。全国一律の固定電話サービス提供義務などの規制の撤廃・緩和は他の通信会社の反発もあり、情報通信審議会で議論が継続。自民党は同法の廃止を求めている。（2024/03/01-10:17）

The cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida adopted at a meeting Friday a bill to ease restrictions on Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.
   The proposed amendments to the NTT law call for scrapping the Japanese telecom giant's obligation to disclose research results in order to strengthen its global competitiveness, allowing the company to allocate less than one-third of executive posts to foreign nationals, and making it possible for NTT and its two regional units to change their trade names. Currently, NTT is banned from appointing non-Japanese directors.
   The cabinet approval of the revision bill comes as rival telecom operators are opposed to lifting or relaxing restrictions on NTT. The government's Information and Communications Council will continue discussions on the issue.
   At the meeting, a bill to revise the broadcasting law was also adopted, so as to make online distribution of television programs an essential business of public broadcaster NHK, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.
   Specifically, the bill calls for requiring NHK to provide both simultaneous and missed-program webcasts as well as program-related information online and obliging those who apply for the online services to subscribe to NHK even if they do not have TV sets.