MIT's Altaeros is aiming to begin customer trials of its tethered aerostat providing low-cost broadband to regional areas at the start of 2018, with SoftBank contributing $7.5 million to the project.

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is visiting the U.S. this week to tell Washington how the U.S. can learn from Japan’s example to improve its mobile broadband infrastructure.. Still smarting from ...

TOKYO -- Softbank Corp.'s broadband business unit said Friday there has been a leak of customer information related to its Internet-telephone service in Japan. The incident is another blow to the ...

SoftBank said its telecom business revenue rose 4 percent to JPY 1,336 billion during the first half of fiscal 2019-20. SoftBank has generated revenue of JPY 848.2 billion (805.3 billion) from ...

Japan's Softbank on Wednesday said first-quarter losses shrank, as its broadband business piled on new users and slashed marketing costs. Led by President Masayoshi Son, the Nippon Internet ...

TOKYO -- Softbank Corp., best known as an investor in companies such as Yahoo Inc., said it posted a group net loss of ¥34.7 billion ($291.3 million) during its fiscal first quarter ended in ...

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son will reportedly argue that having a strong third mobile carrier will help even the playing field for in-home broadband.

A startup building massive, bullet-shaped helium balloons that float in the stratosphere has raised $15 million from Japan’s SoftBank — part of an effort to monitor climate data and bring ...

He has made a career of risk-taking, pushing adoption of broadband services when the internet was still relatively new in Japan. ... SoftBank itself says it had 65,352 employees as of March.