Fusion launches long-distance service at uniform rate

Fusion launches long-distance service at uniform rate

TOKYO, Japan - Tadahisa Sumida, president of Fusion Communications Corp., raises a toast in Tokyo on April 1 to celebrate the launch of the company's Internet-based domestic long-distance telephone service that charges users a uniform rate of 20 yen per three minutes for calls made to anywhere in Japan. Fusion is the first phone operator in Japan to offer a uniform long-distance rate irrespective of the distance and the time or day of a call.

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