BROWSING: Softbank

Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel lacks green agenda in its investments in Africa, Greenpeace Tuesday stated in its briefing paper on International Green Telecom Leadership.

With more than 5.3 billion mobile connections across the globe, the wireless industry continues to chase worldwide saturation.To the surprise of few, the world's most populous nations – China and India – are also the world's largest mobile markets. China continued to lead the...

Ericsson | July 29, 2011 | Press Release SOFTBANK MOBILE and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) have successfully demonstrated the benefits of a new feature, cooperative transmission control/coordinated scheduling in LTE radio base stations*, which significantly improves cell-edge user performance. The test, conducted using commercially available LTE terminals, clearly...

Tokyo Metro and the Tokyo metropolitan government inked a deal with UQ Communications to install WiMAX infrastructure and facilities to provide coverage in Tokyo’s subway system. Financial details were not released at this time. UQ Communications will pay for the cost to install the...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Wall Street Journal | April 13, 2011 | Yoree Koh This much is clear: Masayoshi Son has been an angry man these past few days. While Japan’s richest man has recently used Twitter to share news of his philanthropic activities in the post-quake relief efforts, the strong-willed founder...

Bloomberg | April 3, 2011 | Pavel Alpeyev Softbank Corp. (9984) President Masayoshi Son, Japan’s richest man, pledged to donate 10 billion yen ($120 million) and his remaining salary until retirement to help support victims of the nation’s biggest postwar disaster. Japan’s third-largest wireless carrier will donate...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The terrible human tragedy arising from the massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan could have been...

Wall Street Journal | March 22, 2011 | Yoree Koh Masayoshi Son is not a member of the fearless Tokyo Fire Department’s Hyper Rescue Squad that departed Monday for the troubled northern pocket of Japan. But the famously energetic chief executive and founder of Softbank...

Much of the Pacific Rim is on high alert this morning, following a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan. Within hours, a 23-foot tsunami unleashed its fury on the coast of Japan and began its long journey eastward across the Pacific Ocean....

Bloomberg | March 2, 2011 | Brian Womack, Serena Saitto and Mariko Yasu Yahoo! Inc. is in talks to dispose of its 35 percent stake in its Japanese joint venture with Softbank Corp., according to two people briefed on the matter. The talks focus on transferring its stake...

VMware, virtualization and cloud infrastructure provider, announced that major Japan-based telecommunications operator, Softbank Telecom Corp., has joined the VMware vCloud

VMware | February 21, 2011 | Press Release Organizations in Japan will enjoy the business transformation benefits of true enterprise hybrid cloud computing SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., – February 21, 2011 – VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that major...

A group of top mobile operators have publicly committed to launching and supporting Near Field Communications technology in short order, according to the GSMA.The group of 15 global operators making the early commitment to launch NFC services in some markets by 2012 includes: America...

International Business News  | February 2011 | Alex He China's Synacast Corporation, or PPLive, the operator the leading online TV service "PPTV", said on Thursday that Japan's Softbank has acquired a 35 percent stake into the company. The Japanese mobile carrier acquired Synacast's stake for about...

International Business News  | February 2011 | Alex He China's Synacast Corporation, or PPLive, the operator the leading online TV service "PPTV", said on Thursday that Japan's Softbank has acquired a 35 percent stake into the company. The Japanese mobile carrier acquired Synacast's stake for about...

AT&T Mobility announced it will begin to offer McAfee Enterprise Mobility Management software. The software will enable businesses to offer employees their choice of mobile devices across multiple operating systems, while delivering highly secure access to corporate applications. Businesses will be able to...

TechTree| January 5, 2010 | Samir Makwana Censorware to protect minors from accessing objectionable content The relationship between Apple and the Japanese government hasn't been great last year. After cases of exploding Apple iPod batteries were reported, Japan is once again complaining about Apple. If Google's...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Chinese are voracious consumers of mobile data. In fact, 80% of the 777 million Chinese...

Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: Alcatel-LucentChina: With China Mobile to deploy its IMS solution in Shanxi, Shandong and Gansu provinces to support enhanced communications services.Value: UndisclosedFrance: With Bouygues Telecom to provide its IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to support increased smart...

Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: Alcatel-LucentChina: With China Mobile to deploy its IMS solution in Shanxi, Shandong and Gansu provinces to support enhanced communications services.Value: UndisclosedFrance: With Bouygues Telecom to provide its IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to support increased smart...

Nokia Corp. (NOK) and Renesas Electronics Corp. formed a strategic business alliance that calls for Renesas to acquire Nokia's wireless modem business for about $200 million. The alliance also calls for long-term joint research cooperation on future radio technologies.ComScore Inc. (SCOR) acquired the products...

While the Femto Forum just released a white paper touting how femtocells can take traffic off the macrocellular network, AT&T Mobility's femtocell traffic still counts toward its total data usage as the femtocell is primarily designed to enhance the user's voice call quality experience.Worldwide,...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...