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In Japan, Line Mobile offers plans including free access to LINE application and social network services. In January 2018, it is announced that LINE Corporation and Softbank Corp had agreed a partnership for Line Mobile. As a result of the partnership, Softbank will hold 51% stake in Line Mobile Corporation. [1]
Y!mobile is a brand used by SoftBank Corp., a subsidiary of Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank Group Corporation, that provides mobile telecommunications and ADSL services. The current CEO of the company is Ken Miyauchi. It was formed in 2014 through the merger of Willcom and eAccess, and uses the Y! moniker brand from Yahoo!
Osaifu-Keitai provides many functions on a single mobile phone. Therefore, there is a great risk if the phone is lost, broken, or stolen. Osaifu-Keitai basically functions even without radio transmissions, so the applications can not be terminated just by closing a phone account.
Then there's Softbank. Japan and technology are often mentioned in the same breath. Bullet trains, robots, only-in-Japan phones that'll never leave the island, digital pop-idols and so on. Tech ...
2006: SoftBank started rebranding "Vodafone" to "SoftBank." 2006: Vodafone Japan company name is changed to "SoftBank Mobile Corp." 2008: SoftBank Mobile releases iPhone in Japan beating NTT DoCoMo; 2008: SoftBank Mobile joins Open Handset Alliance [168] 2010: Softbank purchased 100% of the PHS mobile operator Willcom.
In 2006, Vodafone Japan was purchased by SoftBank and renamed to SoftBank Mobile. In the same year, MNP (Mobile Number Portability) was introduced. In 2007, Japanese regulator introduced new guideline for unbundling new handset price and service plan. In 2010, SoftBank Mobile stopped all non-3G services, focusing on 3G service only.
J-Phone later became Vodafone Japan and is now SoftBank Mobile; a later, expanded version of the SoftBank emoji set was the basis for the emoji selection available on early iPhones. [10] A highly influential early set of 176 cellular emoji was created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999, [12] [13] and deployed on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, a Mobile web ...
President-elect Donald Trump joined SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son to announce plans by the Japanese company to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects over the next four years. Trump announced the ...