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On 4 June 2008, SoftBank Mobile announced a partnership with Apple and brought the iPhone (3G) to Japan later in 2008. [172] SoftBank Mobile was the only official carrier of the iPhone in Japan until the release of iPhone 4S in 2011, when au by KDDI began to offer it. [173]
The SoftBank Vision Fund is a venture capital fund founded in 2017. It is managed by SoftBank Investment Advisers, a subsidiary of the SoftBank Group . With over $100 billion in capital, it is the world's largest technology-focused investment fund . [ 2 ]
SoftBank later accumulated further shares in Sprint to about 84% ownership. [53] [54] Sprint and T-Mobile US merged in 2020 in an all shares deal for $26 billion. By 2021, SoftBank Group Corp. had acquired 4.5% of Deutsche Telekom AG (parent company of T-Mobile) and sold its stake in T-Mobile US Inc. to the German telecommunications carrier. [55]
Most recently, OpenAI and iPhone designer Jony Ive have reportedly been in talks to raise $1 billion from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank for an AI device to replace the smartphone.
He has a long history of partnering with tech firms in the U.S., with SoftBank bringing the iPhone to Japan in 2008. Son and Altman also met with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday.
SoftBank now offers 3G, 4G and 5G services using W-CDMA technology at 900 MHz and 2100 MHz. SoftBank was also the exclusive service provider of Apple's iPhone in Japan until November 2011. As of March 2016, there were 40 million subscribers. SoftBank acquired Y!mobile in 2010 and continued to use Y!mobile.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday is announcing investments worth up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.
J-Phone later became Vodafone Japan and is now SoftBank Mobile; a later, expanded version of the SoftBank emoji set was the basis for the emoji selection available on early iPhones. [10] A highly influential early set of 176 cellular emoji was created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999, [12] [13] and deployed on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, a Mobile web ...