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SoftBank Deploys Ericsson Radio Dot System to Deliver Premium Indoor Connectivity

Japan's SoftBank has decided to deploy the Ericsson Radio Dot System across Japan to deliver premium indoor connectivity to its…

SoftBank to Sell Electric Imp’s IoT Development Kits

Japanese operator SoftBank in collaboration with Electric Imp, a global secure IoT connectivity platform provider, recently announced that it will…

SoftBank to Start 5G Trial on 28GHz Spectrum This Year

SoftBank has received an experimental license to conduct tests on the 28GHz frequency band, a candidate for 5G in Japan.…

SoftBank, Sprint in Blockchain R&D Partnership with TBCASoft

Japan-based SoftBank and its subsidiary in the U.S., Sprint have formed a technology partnership with TBCASoft to jointly develop blockchain…

Japan's SoftBank to Buy Fortress Investment for $3.3 billion

SoftBank Group has entered into an agreement to acquire American private equity giant, Fortress Investment Group for approximately $3.3 billion…

VMware Joins OPEN-O NFV Open Source Project

VMware has joined the likes of China Mobile, China Telecom, Ericsson, ZTE and Intel as a premier member of the …

Alibaba Cloud Expands with Four New Data Centers, Partners Vodafone Germany, Softbank & Others

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group has announced the opening of four new data centers by the…

Boku, Spotify Expand Carrier Billing to KDDI, Softbank & Docomo Mobile Users

Direct carrier billing provider, Boku announced that carrier-billed subscriptions for music streaming service Spotify, which launched in Japan in September,…

SoftBank Implements Ericsson Elastic RAN in Tokyo Station to Migrate to Cloud-RAN

Ericsson said it has successfully completed the first commercial implementation of Ericsson Elastic Radio Access Network (RAN) for SoftBank's mobile…