SoftBank
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Japan’s biggest telcos have teamed up to launch a joint framework to ensure network communications can be quickly restored in the event of a large-scale disaster. -
Nvidia is working with SoftBank to reinvent telecom networks to make them capable of supporting AI-RAN, enabling them to run AI and 5G workloads at the same time.
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To challenge Google's search dominance, telecom giants like Telefónica, SoftBank, and Deutsche Telekom threw their weight behind Perplexity, the conversational AI search startup. Their bet, however, appears under threat — as OpenAI has entered the arena.
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Ericsson is teaming up with SoftBank to develop AI radio access network (RAN) solutions to boost network efficiency and performance.
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Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has reportedly agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI while Apple has decided to drop out of backing the AI startup.
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SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, e& Group, Singtel and SoftBank had held the inaugural meeting of the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA) and announced their plans to establish a joint venture.
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Professor William Webb, CTO of Access Partnership
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Arrcus, a hyperscale networking software company, has partnered with ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation, NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation (NESIC) and APRESIA as part of its expansion in the Japanese market.
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Two SoftBank companies have launched a 10Gbps broadband service for enterprise customers in a wholesale deal with rival operator NTT.
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Millicom, the Latin American telecoms firm, has confirmed it is in talks with Apollo Global Management and Claure Group over a potential sale.
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SoftBank has successfully tried out a tethered balloon as a base station, using a cylindrical, rotating antenna that it first talked about last year.
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SoftBank has named a successor to Michel Combes, who has announced his departure after only a few months as CEO of the group’s international arm.
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SoftBank is setting up a high-altitude platform company to improve rural mobile coverage, in Australia with Lendlease, a multinational construction, property and infrastructure company.
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Deutsche Telekom now owns 48.4% of T-Mobile US after buying 30.5 million shares from Japanese firm SoftBank for a total of US$2.4 billion.
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SoftBank will be floating shares in its chip design company, Arm, following the collapse of plans to sell it to rival chip company Nvidia.
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Softbank Group has a new leadership line-up and speculation is mounting that further appointments – and departures – could be confirmed in the coming weeks.
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SoftBank is raising 30 billion yen (US$263 million) to fund its work in high-altitude mobile services from the stratosphere.
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Two months after Nokia announced radio access network deals with Japan’s KDDI and SoftBank, the Finnish vendor has said it is ready to supply open RAN equipment to their rival, NTT DoCoMo.
