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Japan’s SoftBank has revealed plans to stop providing personal handphone services (PHS) for general users from mid-2020. SoftBank stopped accepting new contracts for individual PHS services in March and will phase out existing services for general users from…
Aeon and Yahoo Japan have not had tremendous success with their own e-commerce ventures, according to the report. Softbank’s IT prowess is seen as key to enabling Aeon to make the most of its brick-and-mortar assets in a retail sector quickly evolving as…
Japan’s SoftBank has reported a solid 20% increase in net profit for the nine months ending in December to 1.01 trillion yen ($9.35 billion), partly as a result of cost cutting at US subsidiary Sprint. Net sales for the first nine months of SoftBank’s…
Bicycle hubs are being rolled out at 7-Eleven Japan outlets in a partnership with the Hello Cycling bike-sharing business. The convenience store parent Seven & I Holdings has partnered with Hello Cycling, launched last year by tech company SoftBank Group and…
Japan’s SoftBank has gone live with Gemalto’s On Demand Subscription (ODC) remote subscription management platform to allow customers to directly connect their eSIM-enabled secondary devices to the operator’s mobile network. SoftBank users will be able to…
Japan’s SoftBank and ZTE have achieved a peak data rate of 956Mbps during a trial of TDD Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) technology on a commercial network. The trial in Nagasaki involved 24 terminals simultaneously downloading FTP data at the…
Japan’s SoftBank teamed up with Huawei to demonstrate various real-world use cases for 5G. The companies demonstrated real-time ultra high definition (UHD) video transmission with a throughput of over 800Mbps, as well as remote rendering via a GPU server…
Japan’s SoftBank plans to work with Ericsson to conduct a joint trial of 5G in the 4.5-GHz band in dense urban areas of Japan. The end-to-end trial will involve two 5G new radios, a virtual RAN and EPC, beamforming, Massive multiple input multiple output…
Japan’s SoftBank is developing a new Twin Access mobile network service for enterprises using equipment from NEC. The Twin Access service provides two simultaneous mobile network connections to maintain a state of constant, active connectivity between NEC…
Japan’s SoftBank has contracted Cisco to optimize network operations in its next-generation mobile IP core network. SoftBank will adopt Cisco high-density 100GE routing and segment routing technology to help meet demand for greater mobile traffic capacity and…
SoftBank Group is still in talks to invest in Flipkart – despite the collapse of discussions to fold a smaller rival into India’s largest e-commerce site – but it would do so through its Vision Fund, according to sources familiar with the matter. SoftBank,…
Japan’s SoftBank has forged a joint venture with WeWork Companies to bring WeWork’s novel workspace as a service offering to Japan. The two companies will each own 50% of the joint venture, which will operate under the name of WeWork Japan. By entering Japan,…
Japan’s SoftBank and ZTE have teamed up to trial 5G over 4.5-GHz spectrum in metropolitan areas of Tokyo. SoftBank and ZTE will work to verify the performance of ZTE 5G end-to-end network equipment in sub 6-GHz spectrum under real-world conditions in a major,…
Satellite operator Intelsat has warned it expects its planned $14 billion merger with SoftBank-backed OneWeb to fall through. Debt-land Intelsat disclosed it has failed to get enough of its creditors to accept the deal, which would have required debt…
Japan’s Softbank has reported a twelvefold increase in net profit for the March quarter as a result of a recovery at US mobile unit Sprint. Profit increased to 580.5 billion yen ($5.08 billion), on the back of a nearly 2% increase in revenue to 2.32 trillion…
SoftBank is developing an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) platform as part of its efforts to promote Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The platform, which is scheduled to start operating in 2017, enables remote eSIM provisioning by connecting to…
