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India has given WhatsApp, which is owned by social media giant Facebook, permission to start a payments service in the country, with the rollout initially limited to 20 million users.

SoftBank is one of the world's most technologically connected companies, and for years has also had a robotics division which has now reached Australia, with its new robot being a true whiz at cleaning and arriving at just the right time to help deal with our new post-COVID reality.

There have been many discussions centred around the possibility that China may try to retake Taiwan and speculation as to the likely American reaction, but hardly any consideration has been given to the fact that even a failed bid by Beijing would have a massive effect on the American reliance on Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturers.

Swedish telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson has been selected by telecom operator SoftBank to deliver cloud native 5G Core for SoftBank’s 5G Standalone Network.

Nokia is providing an end-to-end 5G portfolio to telecom operator SoftBank, with the company becoming "first in the world" to have successfully completed tests demonstrating that non-standalone 5G technology can be used to commercially operate connected cars.

Total telecom and pay-TV services revenue in Japan is set to grow at a moderate compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.3% between 2018 and 2023, according to a new analyst report.

Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank has selected Nokia's AirScale solution for its commercial 5G offering in both centralised and distributed RAN configurations.

Chip designer ARM says it has to suspend business with Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies, a report claims.

The merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, the third and fourth biggest wireless carriers in the US, has moved a step closer with the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, officially giving his support to the deal.

T-Mobile US and Sprint have been given permission to go ahead with their proposed merger after national security reviews cleared the deal, which is now expected to be finalised in the first half of 2019.

American companies T-Mobile US and Sprint have cut a deal with US national security authorities to get a proposed merger approved, by agreeing to put a brake on using equipment from Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

US politicians want the government to investigate the somewhat tenuous links between telco Sprint and Chinese company Huawei as it considers a proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile.

Four telecommunications companies — the UAE's Etisalat, Singapore's Singtel, Japan's Softbank and Spain's Telefónica — have come together to form a Global Telco Security Alliance that will offer companies cyber security services.

With 5G promising “ultra-high throughput, ultra-low latency transmission, and edge computing”, Huawei and Softbank have demonstrated 5G use cases including real-time UHD video, robotic arm control and more.

ARM chief executive Simon Segars has joined SoftBank's board of directors.

Global communications services provider Ericsson has launched its verified Network Functions Virtualisation infrastructure (NFVi) solution with multivendor capabilities and a transformation service offering.

Japanese megacorp SoftBank has offered to buy ARM, the company behind the processors used in smartphones and tablets, for tens of billions of dollars.

Japanese telecommunication service provider Softbank is streamlining its data centre operations by deploying Brocade VDX switches in its group-wide common service infrastructure network.

Telstra and Japanese telco giant SoftBank are amongst investors who have put an extra $50 million of equity funding into Australian e-commerce player Bigcommerce.

The balance of power in global commerce is moving east. The float of Chinese Internet merchant Alibaba is the largest in history. Blame Forest Gump.