Japan Telecom
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SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. Japanese
: (ソフトバンクテレコム株式会社), previously as , is a Japanese telephone company
of the SoftBank
group. It is a load in JNR
in the origin. It provides services to businesses and consumers in Japan
. It provides long-distance telephone service, international call service, and direct connection fixed-line voice service. In addition, it engages in the billing and collecting fees for the telephony service; consulting, development and establishment of telecommunication system; and provision of information processing and providing service.
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
: (ソフトバンクテレコム株式会社), previously as , is a Japanese telephone company
Communications in Japan
-Telephone:Telephones and ISDN - main lines in use: 52.3981 million IP phone lines in use: 16.766 million Mobile and PHS lines in use: 105.297 million -Mobile phone:...
of the SoftBank
SoftBank
is a Japanese telecommunications and internet corporation, with operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-Commerce, Internet, broadmedia, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses....
group. It is a load in JNR
Japanese National Railways
, abbreviated or "JNR", was the national railway network of Japan from 1949 to 1987.-History:The term Kokuyū Tetsudō "state-owned railway" originally referred to a network of railway lines operated by nationalized companies under the control of the Railway Institute following the nationalization...
in the origin. It provides services to businesses and consumers in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. It provides long-distance telephone service, international call service, and direct connection fixed-line voice service. In addition, it engages in the billing and collecting fees for the telephony service; consulting, development and establishment of telecommunication system; and provision of information processing and providing service.
Timeline
- 1984-10: Japan Telecom was founded.
- 1986-08: Japan Telecom launches leased circuit services
- 1986-12: Railway Telecommunication established
- 1989-05: Railway Telecommunication merges with Japan Telecom
- 2002-08: Company name was changed to Japan Telecom Holdings. The fixed-line telecommunications business was also separated to found a new Japan Telecom.
- 2006-10: Company name changed to SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp.