Company milestones(Chronological table)

5. A Decade of Personalization (1980-1991)

1980

1981

Number of telephone subscribers exceeds 40 million in Japan

1982

1983

1984

Deregulation of Japanese telecommunication market
U.S. based AT&T is split up

  • Opens Dallas Plant in U.S.
  • Opens Mie Plant for prototype development and mass production of large-density memories and large-scale gate arrays
  • Opens Wakamatsu Plant for prototype development and mass production of customized LSI products
  • Introduces Corporate Information Network System (COINS)
  • Starts car phone production
  • FACOM K series leads small business computer market in Japan

1985

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation privatized
Science World Expo, Tsukuba '85 in Japan
Japan longitudinal fiber-optic system completed

1988

Seoul Olympics

  • Launches world's first commercial ISDN service, running on Fujitsu FETEX-150 digital switching system in Singapore

1989

Berlin Wall falls in Germany

1990

Iraqi troops invade Kuwait
German reunification

1991

Outbreak of the Gulf War