The companies said they aim to launch a joint venture company as part of this global telco AI alliance
MWC, Barcelona— Deutsche Telekom, e& Group, Singtel, SoftBank and SK Telecom officially launched the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA) at MWC Barcelona 2024.
During the launch event,...
Softbank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son wants to raise $100 billion for a new company focused on artificial intelligence microchips, according to Bloomberg.
The venture, dubbed Project Izanagi, is aimed at setting up an AI chip company to complement Softbank's Arm and to challenge...
CelcomDigi said the collaboration with SoftBank and SC-NEX will leverage on the expertise of both firms on AI, robotics and analytic solutions
Malaysian carrier CelcomDigi announced a strategic partnership with Japanese telco SoftBank and SC-NEX, a firm owned by Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation, to accelerate the...
SoftBank, in collaboration with a consortium, will exhibit a demonstration of this platform during an upcoming event in Japan this month
Japanese telco SoftBank announced it has initiated field trials for 5G multi-access edge computing (MEC) utilizing the segment routing IPv6 mobile user plane (SRv6...
SoftBank said that its investment in Cubic Telecom is expected to close in the first half of 2024
Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank announced an agreement through which it will acquire a 51% equity stake in Irish firm Cubic Telecom, a provider of software-defined connected vehicle...
Fujitsu said the SoftBank deployment included the former's next-generation optical transmission platform "1 FINITY Ultra Optical System T900"
Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank recently completed the nationwide deployment, in core areas, of an all-optical network, using a disaggregated architecture optical transmission system that supports open networks,...
The SoftBank executive noted that he expects 5G-Advanced technology to gradually be implemented into commercial network equipment after 2025
The main features of future 5G-Advanced networks are expected to include further improvements in the fundamental performance aspects of 5G, such as coverage, capacity and mobility,...
According to SoftBank, the HAPS payload delivered 5G connectivity continuously for approximately 73 minutes at a maximum altitude of 10.5 miles
SoftBank — via its subsidiary HAPSMobile Inc. — and the government of Rwanda revealed this week that they recently conducted a 5G communications trial...
Softbank telco AI strategy includes working with NVIDIA on network automation and adding AI overhead into 5G RAN compute
As interest and investment in artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch, NVIDIA has emerged as the undisputed leader in using its accelerated compute architecture and...
Ahead of its IPO, ARM's revenues took a hit from the global smartphone slow-down
Chip design powerhouse Arm has filed for a long-anticipated initial public offering in the United States.
The initial filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission offered little in the way of...
SoftBank already owns 75% of the chip company
SoftBank Group is reportedly in talks to purchase the remaining 25% of Arm it doesn’t already control directly from Vision Fund 1, a $100 billion investment fund that the chip company established in 2017. Reuters, which first...
Softbank Group has agreed with US-based supply-chain technology supplier Symbiotic to create a new joint-venture company, GreenBox Systems, to sell the latter’s AI-geared warehouse automation systems. As part of the deal, the new business has been appointed as the exclusive supplier of Symbotic’s warehouse...
SoftBank will begin building its AI infrastructure by the end of 2023
Japanese operator SoftBank unveiled plans to invest a total of $138 million in advanced computing infrastructure with the aim of powering its own generative artificial intelligence (AI) model to target Japanese enterprises, local...
SoftBank and Sumitomo Electric have been conducting joint demonstrations to realize 5G-based smart factories since 2019
Japanese companies SoftBank and Sumitomo Electric announced plans to collaborate with the aim of realizing smart factories using 5G technology, the companies said in a release.
As part of the...
The government of Japan is considering to auction mmWave spectrum
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) is aiming to launch a 5G spectrum auction in early 2026, Japanese newspaper Nikkei reported.
This would be the first time that the Japanese government has used an...
Cellular IoT provider 1NCE has said it wants to repeat its trick with flat-rate global IoT pricing to also “disrupt” the IoT industry with free device and cloud management software. At CES in Las Vegas, the firm has launched a new operating system (OS),...
On September 30, 2022, Qualcomm Inc. quietly filed a counterclaim to Arm’s lawsuit against Qualcomm/Nuvia. It was a long-awaited rebuttal as it seemed Qualcomm had gone dark after the company’s General Counsel, Ann Chaplin, released a brief retort shortly after Arm went very public...
Global cellular IoT provider 1NCE has launched in Japan with operator Softbank. Its debut in Japan comes six months after Softbank’s expanded stake in the firm was discussed, and four months after it was confirmed. Softbank, already a major investor in Cologne-headquartered 1NCE, announced...
SoftBank said it plans to showcase this 5G network slicing system at TM Forum Digital Transformation World 2022
Japanese carrier SoftBank says that it has successfully completed automated 5G network slicing over 5G mobile networks and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) applications.
“To make an end-to-end (E2E)...
Nokia said that the AI RF capacity planning solution is part of Nokia’s AVA software offering
Nokia announced that it has deployed its artificial intelligence (AI) radio frequency (RF) capacity planning software for Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo with the aim of improving the efficiency of...
Softbank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son invested $20 million in Alibaba in 2000
After posting a $23 billion quarterly net loss on Monday, SoftBank announced plans to reduce its stake in Alibaba to 14.6% from 23.7% for more than 4.6 trillion Japanese yen ($34.1 billion).
In the filing,...
KDDI, NTT DoCoMo, Rakuten Mobile and Softbank have all deployed mmWave 5G
Right now mmWave 5G deployments are focused on adding capacity to congested network hot zones, places like stadiums, music venues, shopping malls, transit hubs and dense central business or downtown areas. In addition...
Deutsche Telekom said GD Towers operates more than 40,000 sites in Germany and Austria
Germany carrier Deutsche Telekom announced the sale of 51% of GD Towers comprising its tower assets in Germany and Austria, to Digital Bridge and Brookfield for 17.5 billion euros ($17.58 billion),...
The test was conducted using SoftBank base stations located in Tokyo
Japanese operator SoftBank and compatriot company Kyocera conducted a backhaul system verification test utilizing the millimeter-wave band allocated to SoftBank for 5G services.
In a release, the telco said that the test was conducted using...
