NTT Australia revenue up 24 percent

Infrastructure provider NTT Australia has reported a 24 percent increase in yearly revenue.

NTT Australia - one of three entities that make up NTT Com ICT Solutions, the Australian integrator owned by Japanese telco giant NTT - reported $28.8 million of revenue in 2013, up from $23.2 million the previous year. NTT is also the parent company of Dimension Data.

Yearly profit slightly dipped, going from $2.57 million to $2.14 million for a 17 percent decrease.

NTT Australia, Frontline Systems and Harbour MSP were consolidated under the single umbrella of NTT Com ICT Solutions in November. Although internally the three companies are now well and truly integrated, the annual return only reflects NTT Australia, which reported its results to ASIC as a separate legal entity due to the transition of minority ownership for Frontline.

"If we think of NTT Australia as a separate operation, the big growth areas for us last year were in wholesale internet – where we went from number three to two in Australia – and providing international data centre space to outbound Australian companies," said Monte Davis, CEO of NTT Com ICT Solutions.

"The global version of NTT has 180 data centres worldwide, so we did a lot of business offering data centre space in the US and Europe to Australian companies that are expanding," Davis told CRN.

In October, NTT Com ICT Solutions' global parent spent over $900 million in expanding its data centre network.

Davis also said last year NTT claimed second spot in the wholesale internet industry. "It used to be Optus, Telstra, us, but now it's Optus, us, Telstra," he said. 

NTT Com ICT Solutions director Michael Fortescue told CRN that the runner-up mantle was based on the "IPv4 Customer Base: Wholesale - Australia" ladder published in the Renesys Internet Index Ratings report dated 1 July 2013. CRN has verified that NTT was ranked fourth as of 2 June 2014, with Pacnet and AAPT overtaking it.

"There will be more of the same with wholesale internet and international data centres. We'll also have multinational global cloud offerings continuing to grow, and there's interesting work going on in the global network space," said Davis. "There's exciting things coming for expanding Australian companies."

When asked about the local relationship between NTT Com ICT Solutions and DiData, Davis said there is a "brother-sister-like relationship" but the co-operation was informal and determined at the local level.

"Formally we only meet up at the highest level of NTT holding," Davis told CRN.