Rakuten officially launched their Mobile Network Operator service in Japan today, Congrats to all there who have been working very hard on this migration from top MVNO player, interesting times ahead.. [PR-Eng] https://t.co/aZMrO787pA ?????????? @hmikitani_e pic.twitter.com/mxfRuUQKEZ
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 8, 2020
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SoftBank Group confirms the completion of Sprint/T-Mobile merger, with 300M converted shares trading at $85 on depressed markets close, for roughly $26Bn value on their $20Bn acquisition in 2013. [Eng-Pdf] https://t.co/vrnSPxH405 pic.twitter.com/whfXGE6fAW
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 2, 2020
SoftBank and KDDI just announced they have established 50-50 JV company, 5G Japan, to collaborate on rural 5G development, including the design, build and manage of shared base station network.. [Jpn] https://t.co/dAEcmJRgEl pic.twitter.com/ngEawIT0ZV
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 1, 2020
The Japanese Business Federation (Keidanren) just released this Society5 promo video ‘Creating our future with digital technology’.. as we’ve noted via our 5×5 Project website, interesting times ahead https://t.co/RToFMoiwhi pic.twitter.com/3WyKholSp5
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 1, 2020
The Cabinet Office and related Ministries issue ‘highly unusual’ request for Japan telcos, plus Google-Yahoo platforms, to provide non-personalized data on all users location, search and texting details for tracking flow of potential COVID19 clusters [Jpn] https://t.co/Z9ws1hdiCj pic.twitter.com/HdjCKfgsJW
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) April 1, 2020
KDDI just announced dedicated ‘5G for Startups’ program matching their 8Labo cohorts, 77 graduated companies since 2011, with current list 46 enterprise Alliance partners. The initial co-create project details noted via PR here [Jpn] https://t.co/991NzIovoj pic.twitter.com/SyUKSyHG6l
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) March 24, 2020