NTT threw away 130,000 working modems
The Yomiuri reports on wasteful business practices by NTT:
NTT East and NTT West said they had examined each of the returned modems and checked whether they functioned properly and whether their casings were dirty or damaged to determine if they could be leased again.
However, the board found that 130,000 functioning modems–80,000 from NTT East and 50,000 from NTT West–had been abandoned because they were dirty or had damaged casings.
Meanwhile, the NTT firms spent several billion yen on 450,000 new modems.
The board pointed out that the firms should have asked a manufacturer to exchange the casings on returned modems to cut expenditures.
According to a board estimate, the cost to exchange a modem casing would have been between 5,000 yen to 7,000 yen each, and the firms could have saved 400 million yen if they had replaced the casings.
No word yet on when NTT is going to fix it’s painfully slow installation process.
