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OpenAI has teamed up with SoftBank to launch SB OpenAI Japan, a joint venture developing AI tools and models specifically for Japanese businesses. -
SoftBank is reportedly in talks to increase its investment in OpenAI, potentially injecting up to $25 billion into the ChatGPT maker.
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Nokia has secured a trifecta of contracts with internet exchange (IX) providers to improve network performance.
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Business Telecommunications Services (BTS) has been named the exclusive global provider of A2P SMS services for BBIX, a SoftBank subsidiary, strengthening their five-year partnership.
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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.
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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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Datacloud Asia 2025 co-located with ITW Asia
3 DECEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2025 Singapore, Singapore
