Japan’s second largest telecoms group KDDI Corp is partnering Nippon Express Company to enter the domestic telegram market in Japan, in a bid to break Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp’s (NTT’s) stranglehold on the segment, the Nikkei daily reports. From 1 July KDDI will launch a telegram service via nine delivery centres across the country. It hopes to secure a 20% market share within three years. Although the telegram segment is in decline, the Japanese market is nonetheless worth an estimated USD557 million per annum.