SoftBank
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SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, e& Group, Singtel and SoftBank had held the inaugural meeting of the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA) and announced their plans to establish a joint venture. -
Professor William Webb, CTO of Access Partnership
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Arrcus, a hyperscale networking software company, has partnered with ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation, NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation (NESIC) and APRESIA as part of its expansion in the Japanese market.
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Two SoftBank companies have launched a 10Gbps broadband service for enterprise customers in a wholesale deal with rival operator NTT.
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Millicom, the Latin American telecoms firm, has confirmed it is in talks with Apollo Global Management and Claure Group over a potential sale.
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SoftBank has successfully tried out a tethered balloon as a base station, using a cylindrical, rotating antenna that it first talked about last year.
Forthcoming events
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SoftBank has named a successor to Michel Combes, who has announced his departure after only a few months as CEO of the group’s international arm.
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SoftBank is setting up a high-altitude platform company to improve rural mobile coverage, in Australia with Lendlease, a multinational construction, property and infrastructure company.
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Deutsche Telekom now owns 48.4% of T-Mobile US after buying 30.5 million shares from Japanese firm SoftBank for a total of US$2.4 billion.
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SoftBank will be floating shares in its chip design company, Arm, following the collapse of plans to sell it to rival chip company Nvidia.
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Softbank Group has a new leadership line-up and speculation is mounting that further appointments – and departures – could be confirmed in the coming weeks.
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SoftBank is raising 30 billion yen (US$263 million) to fund its work in high-altitude mobile services from the stratosphere.
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Two months after Nokia announced radio access network deals with Japan’s KDDI and SoftBank, the Finnish vendor has said it is ready to supply open RAN equipment to their rival, NTT DoCoMo.
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The latest opponent to Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm is a powerful agency of the US government.
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SoftBank and KDDI have chosen Nokia as one of the vendors to deploy Japan’s shared radio access network (RAN).
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Eutelsat, which last week rejected a takeover offer from Patrick Drahi, has raised its stake in satellite company OneWeb to almost 23%.
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SoftBank has partnered with SES to deliver live sporting events in Japan.
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Google’s former Moonshot project, Loon, has transferred its patents to SoftBank for the Japanese company’s own balloon-based base station work.
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IoT network carrier 1NCE has raised $50 million in capital from a raft of investors including Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank.
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Season 3, episode 2 is presented by editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Natalie Bannerman and this week's guest, Colm Shorten, senior director of data centres at JLL.
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SoftBank Group Corp (SoftBank) has formed an equity share swap agreement with Deutsche Telekom AG (DT).
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SoftBank and its flying base station unit, HAPSMobile, say they have found a way to increase coverage from its Sunglider uncrewed solar-powered aircraft.
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The next generation of mobile communications will need to offer 100% global coverage with guaranteed service levels, according to SoftBank’s head of advanced technology.
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SoftBank and Smart Africa Secretariat (Smart Africa) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop solutions that enable affordable broadband across Africa.
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Japanese operator and investor SoftBank has taken a significant move to unify and coordinate all of its connectivity solutions that operate from above the Earth’s surface.
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SoftBank and OneWeb has form an agreement to promote OneWeb’s satellite communication services in the global and Japanese markets.
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The digital analytics and AI arm of Malaysia's Axiata Group is to receive a $60 million investment from Softbank.
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Satellite company OneWeb is in “advanced discussions” with potential investors to provide its missing US$475 million.
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Eutelsat has spent US$550 million on a 24% stake in satellite company OneWeb, joining Bharti Global and the UK government — which each spent $500 million — as an equal shareholder.
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OneWeb has successfully launched its next 36 satellites, increasing its total in orbit to 182 of the final target of 648.
