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WIRELESS

BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 3, 2019
Russian apps could pose 'counterintelligence threat,' FBI says
The FBI is treating any mobile app that comes out of Russia as a "potential counterintelligence threat," the U.S.'s top law enforcement agency said in a letter to Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2018
India to implement 5G services by 2022 to catch up with Japan and other Asian peers
India plans to roll out state-of-the-art 5G telecom services in the next four years, a senior official said, as the nation rushes to catch up with its Asian peers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 13, 2018
5G is here: Super speed makes worldwide debut at Winter Olympics
The first to experience the future of wireless technology, well before most humans, will be South Korea's wild boars. That's because 5G, the fifth-generation wireless network, is making its worldwide debut at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 28, 2017
Ehime man gets eight years for online banking scheme but not guilty of using neighbor's Wi-Fi
The Tokyo District Court sentenced a man to eight years in prison Thursday for illegally obtaining the internet banking passwords and account details of other people and using the information to illegally remit money, but was found not guilty of "free riding" his neighbor's Wi-Fi service.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 23, 2017
Toyota, NTT to cooperate on wireless technology for autonomous cars
Toyota Motor Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. will cooperate on high-speed communication technology for "connected cars," sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 6, 2015
Verizon shift to wireless puts union ranks, with benefits, at huge disadvantage
Verizon Communications Inc., deadlocked in labor talks over pension benefits and health care that caused a strike in 2011, has gained bargaining power this time around after shedding operations that employ older unionized workers.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2014
Free Wi-Fi is trialed for tourists
Wire and Wireless will begin trials of a 'free' Wi-Fi service that will cater to foreign tourists and mine their GPS data.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 21, 2014
Docomo to test paid Wi-Fi service geared to foreigners
NTT Docomo Inc. announced Wednesday that it's launching a paid wireless Internet service geared to foreign visitors at its 150,000 Wi-Fi access points across Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 16, 2014
Apple, IBM put aside differences with landmark deal
Apple Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are putting aside a rivalry started at the dawn of the personal-computing era to get more businesses to embrace iPhones and iPads.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2013
KDDI wins Wi-Fi spectrum, prompting protest by Softbank
The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry has decided to allocate wireless spectrum to KDDI Corp. as the nation's mobile carriers seek to boost download speeds.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 16, 2012
Softbank plans $20 billion Sprint buy
Softbank Corp. and Sprint Nextel Corp. have entered into definitive agreements under which Japan's third-largest mobile phone carrier will pay $20.1 billion (about ¥1.57 trillion) to acquire a 70 percent stake in the No. 3 U.S. cellphone firm, Softbank said Monday.

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