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• Japan decides to award new licenses to Willcom and KDDI.(JAPAN)

  - 2008-01-01

  Japan's telecom regulator plans to award licenses for high-speed wireless Internet to Carlyle-controlled handyphone firm Willcom Inc. and a consortium backed by cellphone giant KDDI Corp., according to the Nikkei business daily. The two companies have been battling it out with mobile operators NTT DoCoMo Inc....

  Tags: INTERNET, Japan, KDDI Corp., NETWORKING, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Softbank Corp., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, WIRELESS

• NTT DoCoMo, Softbank and KDDI and their partners file for licenses

  - 2007-11-01

  NTT DoCoMo, Softbank and KDDI and their partners file for licenses to provide Wimax services in Japan worth billions of yen.

  Tags: KDDI Corp., NTT DoCoMo Inc., Softbank Corp., Wi-Fi, WiMAX, WIRELESS

• Softbank Corporation Makes Significant Inroads into the Fixed-line and Wireless Sectors in Japan

  - 2007-02-23

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50926) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report: Japan Telecommunications Market Intelligence Report to their offering.

  Tags: Softbank Corp., wireless

• SOFTBANK joins forces with Motorola to launch 2.5GHz WiMAX mobility trial in Japan; Expertise gained from trial will enhance Motorola's MOTOwi4 portfolio of wireless broadband solutions.

  - 2006-07-24

  M2 PRESSWIRE-24 July 2006-MOTOROLA: SOFTBANK joins forces with Motorola to launch 2.5GHz WiMAX mobility trial in Japan; Expertise gained from trial will enhance Motorola's MOTOwi4 portfolio of wireless broadband solutionsC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:24072006 TOKYO, Japan-- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today announced...

  Tags: broadband, Japan, mobility, Motorola Inc., Softbank Corp., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, WIRELESS

• Motorola joins forces with Softbank to hunch 2.5-GHz WiMAX mobility trials in Japan.(TOKYO)

  - 2006-07-01

  Motorola joins forces with Softbank to hunch 2.5-GHz WiMAX mobility trials in Japan. Under the deal, Motorola is supplying an end-to-end trial system including access points, an access network and prototype WiMAX mobile handheld devices.

  Tags: Japan, mobility, Motorola Inc., Softbank Corp., Wi-Fi, WiMAX, WIRELESS

• Softbank to offer Internet 'hot spots' for Yahoo! BB customers

  - 2005-08-30

  TOKYO AFP — Japanese Internet group Softbank, which provides Japan's Yahoo broadband service, will offer subscribers a wireless Internet service in "hot spots" such as train stations from October, the company said. Softbank is to integrate its own wireless local area network with that of its subsidiary Japan Telecom,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, broadband, INTERNET, Japan, LANs, NETWORKING, Softbank Corp., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Yahoo! Inc.

• Softbank subsidiary trials HSDPA gear in Japan.(Global Wireless)

  - 2005-06-13

  Nortel Networks Ltd. said it completed an UMTS/HSDPA network trial in the Saitama prefecture of Japan with BB Mobile, a subsidiary of Softbank. The live field tests were conducted using mobile handsets on BB Mobile's wireless network using a trial Nortel Networks Ltd....

  Tags: HSDPA, network, Softbank Corp., UMTS, wireless

• Softbank Seeks Wireless Service License

  - 2004-12-06

  Softbank made a step toward becoming a mobile phone carrier by filing license application with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications through its wholly owned subsidiary Softbank BB on December 6 in its attempt to enter the cellular phone service market.

  Tags: Softbank Corp., wireless, wireless service

• Japanese carrier sues country over 3G plans.(News)

  - 2004-10-25

  Byline: JEFFREY SILVA While the Bush administration pursues a traditional carrot-and-stick approach to prod Japan into further liberalizing its wireless market, a Japanese telecom firm needing a wireless play is mounting an unorthodox challen Byline: JEFFREY SILVA ...

  Tags: 3G, Bush Administration, KDDI Corp., NTT DoCoMo Inc., Softbank Corp., spectrum, telecommunications, wireless