SoftBank

is a Japanese multinational holding conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. SoftBank was ranked in the Forbes Global 2000 list as the 39th largest public company in the world, and the 4th largest publicly traded company in Japan after Toyota, MUFG, NTT.

Digital Platforms & Services

What’s up with… KT Cloud, Orange and Siemens, Aryaka and SoftBank, Airtel and NaaS

Digital Platforms & Services

SoftBank Corp. Selects Aryaka for its International SD-WAN Service, SD-CORE(aryaka)

AI, Analytics & Automation

Establishing an international robotics key player

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5G

SoftBank targets $283 million to help social issues in Japan through 5G

Digital Platforms & Services

Kyndryl and SoftBank Corp. announce strategic partnership to further digital transformation for customers in fields such as cloud and 5G

Digital Platforms & Services

Ouch! NVIDIA finally loses in Arm wrestling contest

Digital Platforms & Services

NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Announce Termination of NVIDIA’s Acquisition of Arm Limited

Access Evolution

What’s up with… Telia, Intel, Sigfox

Transformation

SoftBank Group Announces Management Transition

Access Evolution

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Digital Platforms & Services

2022 New Year's Message from SoftBank President & CEO Junichi Miyakawa

6G R&I

The most popular 6G stories of 2021

Alex Jinsung Choi, Chief Operating Officer of the O-RAN ALLIANCE and SVP of Strategy and Technology Innovation at Deutsche Telekom.

Open RAN

O-RAN Alliance’s Plugfest attracts 94 participants

The Great Telco Debate

SoftBank's Akira Tada: The Great Telco Debate Executive Interview

5G

Should telcos even bother with the private 5G networks opportunity?

5G

SoftBank Corp. and Honda start use case verification of technologies to reduce collisions involving pedestrians and vehicles using 5G SA and Cellular V2X

5G

SoftBank to open “AI-on-5G Lab.” with NVIDIA for commercialization of fully virtualized Private 5G

Access Evolution

SoftBank Corp. and u-blox to collaborate on global GNSS augmentation services

5G

SoftBank Corp. first carrier in Japan to provide 5G standalone commercial services

5G

Nokia deploys shared 5G network with SoftBank and KDDI in Japan

Satellite

SoftBank, MOL and e5 Lab Start Joint Studies for Next-generation Maritime High-speed Satellite Communications

Picture courtesy of Openreach

Access Evolution

What’s up with... Openreach & Equinox, 1NCE, América Móvil

Access Evolution

SoftBank Corp. acquires High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) patents from Loon

Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges

Digital Platforms & Services

What’s up with... SoftBank & Deutsche Telekom, DT & BT, T-Mobile US