[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook] NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the global data and IP services arm of Fortune Global 500 telecom leader NTT (NYSE:NTT), announced today that it will expand its global IP network footprint with a new point-of-presence (PoP) in Bangkok, Thailand, one of the fastest-growing markets for Internet-related business in Asia, beginning July 1.

NTT Com will offer IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack access via its award-winning* Tier-1 IP network not only to domestic providers of Internet services (ISPs) and content (ICPs), but also multinational companies providing Internet-related services in Thailand and the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries, including Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

NTT Com will leverage its presence in Thailand to strengthen the country’s Internet environment, where a population of over 67 million is driving some 70% compound annual growth in international IP traffic. With Thailand functioning as the center of the GMS, the new PoP also will enhance the Internet environment throughout the GMS, which has a population of approximately 300 million.