| May 2000 |
Founded BB Technologies Corporation (currently SoftBank BB Corp.) |
| Sept. 2001 |
Launched Yahoo! BB. |
| Dec. 2001 |
Nagoya Metallic Communications Corp. (currently SoftBank BB Corp.) introduced BB Phone across the town of Oguchi, Aichi Prefecture jointly with the SoftBank Group, Yahoo Japan Corporation and the town of Oguchi, and promoted Cyber Town Plan. |
| Apr. 2002 |
Started full-fledged experiments of Yahoo! BB Mobile, super-high-speed wireless Internet connection service. |
| Launched BB Phone. |
| July 2002 |
Communication services of three companies of Tokyo Metallic Communications Corp., Nagoya Metallic Communications Corp., and Osaka Metallic Communications Corp. (currently SoftBank BB Corp.) were integrated into Yahoo! BB. |
| Aug. 2002 |
Launched Yahoo BB 12M. |
| Sept. 2002 |
Number of subscribers to Yahoo! BB exceeded a million. |
| Nov. 2002 |
Started operating next generation 10Gbps backbone network between Aichi Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture. |
| Number of users of BB Phone exceeded a million. |
| Dec. 2002 |
Launched Yahoo BB 12M +Wireless LAN Pack. |
| Jan. 2003 |
SoftBank BB Corp. was founded by the merger of BB Technologies Corporation, SOFTBANK Networks Inc., SOFTBANK EC HOLDINGS CORP., and SOFTBANK COMMERCE CORP. |
| Feb. 2003 |
Number of subscribers to Yahoo! BB exceeded two million. |
| Apr. 2003 |
Number of users of BB Phone exceeded two million. |
| July 2003 |
Founded Broadband Association to provide a forum to facilitate interaction in the business community and to promote penetration and educational campaign of broadband. |
| Launched Yahoo BB 26M. |
| Aug. 2003 |
Number of subscribers to Yahoo! BB exceeded three million. |
| Oct. 2003 |
Number of users of BB Phone exceeded three million. |
| Dec. 2003 |
Started BB Phone service using a prefix of 050. |
| Jan. 2004 |
Launched Yahoo BB 45M. |
| Attempted extortion occurred using customer information of Yahoo! BB. |
| Mar. 2004 |
Founded Personal Information Management Council and Technology Council. |
| Number of subscribers to Yahoo! BB exceeded four million. |
| July 2004 |
Launched hikari BB Phone, IP phone service using fiber optics for corporate users. |
| Sept. 2004 |
Launched charged service of BB Soft, software distribution service through streaming. |
| Oct. 2004 |
Announced the service-in of Yahoo! BB hikari, new broadband comprehensive service using fiber optics to be provided jointly with Yahoo Japan Corporation. |
| Miss Aya Ueto became a new campaign character. Started running new TVCM of Yahoo! BB. |
| Feb. 2005 |
Launched Yahoo! BB hikari TV package and Yahoo! BB hikari Mansion TV package. |
| Started sales of SoftGrid, next generation application management tool for reduction of companies' management costs by uniformly managing diversified applications. |
| Mar. 2005 |
Started Baseball Broadband TV, online live distribution service of all games held by SoftBank Hawks. |
| Apr. 2005 |
Obtained both BS7799-2:2002 and ISMS Certification (Ver.2.0) of Information security management systems at the same time. |
| July 2005 |
Network Operation Center (NOC) obtained BS7799-2:2002 and ISMS Certification (Ver.2.0). |
| Aug. 2005 |
Built a nation's largest-scale personal information management system adopting code module certified as compliant with the USA standards. |
| Nov. 2005 |
Announced gradual expansion of BB Mobile Point, public wireless LAN service by the SoftBank Group to about 2,600 outlets of McDonald's across the nation. |
| Dec. 2005 |
Divided SoftBank BB Corp. into BB TECHNOLOGY Corp. and SoftBank BB Corp. (newly established company) along with reorganization of broadband business. |
| Formed a strategic business alliance with JAPAN TELECOM CO., LTD. (currently SoftBank Telecom Corp.) and Microsoft Co., Ltd. to provide instant messaging integrated communications service for corporate users. |
| Number of subscribers to Yahoo! BB exceeded five million. |
| Feb. 2006 |
Introduced an interface supporting large capacity of 40Gbps onto the backbone network of Yahoo! BB. |
| Consolidated broadband business for corporate users into JAPAN TELECOM CO., LTD. (currently SoftBank Telecom Corp.) |
| Launched Yahoo BB 50M Revo. |
| June 2006 |
Established Kitakyushu Network Operation Center (NOC). |
| July 2006 |
Permitted by Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications, Ministry of International Affairs and Communications to install equipments for high-speed power line communication for experiments. |
| Dec. 2006 |
Launched BB Support Wide, overall PC support service for users of Yahoo! BB and SoftBank Broadband Service. |
| Jan. 2007 |
Launched TEKI-PAKI, business support service for small businesses. |
| Mar. 2007 |
Merged BB TECHNOLOGY Corp. and SoftBank BB Corp. along with reorganization of broadband business and the merged company was named SoftBank BB Corp. |
| July 2007 |
Awarded Gold Prize of Contact Center Awards 2007 that commemorates work improvement efforts at contact centers (call centers). |
| Nov. 2007 |
Launched a brand called SoftBank SELECTION to provide mobile phone accessories and PC software. |
| Mar. 2008 |
Released CACHATTO for SoftBank, a mobile solution. |
| June 2008 |
Launched White Call 24, a voice call discount service. |
| July 2008 |
Awarded with Best Technology Award of Contact Center Awards 2008. |
| Sept. 2008 |
Launched PurchaseOne, a procurement system and service for indirect material. |
| Dec. 2008 |
Launched Yahoo! BB White Plan, a flat price plan with two ceilings. |
| Jan. 2009 |
Released One Seg Tuner for iPhone 3G TV & Battery. |
| Apr. 2009 |
SoftBank Mobile Corp., SoftBank BB Corp., and SoftBank Telecom Corp., unified their service brand logo. |
| Aug. 2009 |
Next Generation Mobile Learning won Award of Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications in JAPAN e-Learning AWARDS 2009. |
| May 2010 |
Launched IPv6 Internet service for Yahoo! BB hikari with FLET'S. |
| July 2010 |
Won Gold award of Best Tech Innovation Internal Solution at Asia Pacific Conference of Contact Center World Award 2010. |
