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Japan’s SoftBank plans to deploy Ericsson’s Radio Dot system across Japan to improve indoor coverage for its large subscriber base. The operator will target medium to large buildings in high-density urban areas including Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya with the…
Ericsson and Japan’s SoftBank have announced plans to demonstrate 5G over 28-GHz millimetre wave spectrum, as part of the next stage of their joint 5G trials. The companies said they are moving forward with more advanced 5G tests following the successful…
What guise will robots of the future take? Some see as them as faceless automatons, capable of performing basic tasks for us, whilst the Supermatrix predicts a future where they’ll be actively concious but subdued through a dream within a dream. SoftBank…
Apple has revealed plans to invest $1 billion in Japanese telecom behemoth SoftBank’s $100 billion technology venture capital fund. Apple will join a list of investors that are also expected to include Foxconn Technology Group and Oracle chairman Larry…
OneWeb has raised $1.2 billion in a new funding round led by Japan’s Softbank, bringing in fresh capital for the US satellite startup to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Softbank is investing $1 billion of the total $1.2 billion and has become a strategic…
Japan’s SoftBank has launched a new cloud-based videoconferencing service using PolyCom’s RealPresence Clariti infrastructure software. SoftBank’s new PrimeMeeting service will strengthen the company’s offerings to customers looking for a flexible video…
Ericsson has completed the first commercial deployment of its new Elastic RAN for Japan’s SoftBank, and entered an agreement to build a 5G trial network in parts of Tokyo with NTT DoCoMo and Intel. SoftBank has implemented Ericsson’s Elastic RAN at Tokyo…
SoftBank Group has announced plans to establish the SoftBank Vision Fund to make investments in the technology sector globally. The fund will be managed in the United Kingdom by a subsidiary of SoftBank and will deploy capital from SoftBank and investment…
Japan’s SoftBank has revealed plans to roll out a LoRaWAN low power wide area (LPWA) network in the current financial year. The operator plans to use the network to provide end-to-end IoT services, ranging from device and application support to consulting.…
Softbank and its affiliate company, Wireless City Planning, have officially launched the ‘5G Project’. As the first phase of the project, which was announced in Tokyo last week, Softbank plans to roll out commercial services based on Massive MIMO technology…
Japan’s SoftBank lifted its net profit for the June quarter by 19.1% year-on-year to 254.16 billion yen ($2.42 billion), largely as a result of solid growth from the company’s domestic telecoms business. Domestic telecoms service revenue grew 5.4% to 761.8…
SoftBank has entered a deal to buy chipmaker ARM for a whopping $31 billion to help cement the company’s future in the burgeoning IoT sector. The boards of both SoftBank and ARM have unanimously recommended the proposed deal to buy out 100% of ARM and turn…
Amazon.com has said it plans to expand its e-commerce empire to Indonesia, with a $600 million investment for the first year. It makes perfect business sense. Indonesia’s e-commerce space is only about $3.2 billion in sales, a tiny fraction of its $150…
In a surprise move, SoftBank president and heir apparent Nikesh Arora has stepped down from his role. Nikesh announced on Twitter that current SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son will continue to be CEO for the next 5-10 years, and he has therefore decided to move on…
Coupang, the leading South Korean eCommerce operator, is expected to reveal mounting operating losses for 2015 as big investments in logistics capacity weighed on the financials of the startup company, industry sources said Thursday. Coupang is expected to…
