| May 2000 |
Founded BB Technologies Corporation (current SOFTBANK BB Corp.) |
| Sep. 2001 |
Launched commercial service of ‘Yahoo! BB’ |
| Dec. 2001 |
Announced start of trial service of IP phone, ‘BB Phone.’ |
| Nagoya Metallic Communications Corp. (current 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 commercial service of ‘BB Phone.’ |
| May 2002 |
Number of subscribers to ‘Yahoo! BB’ exceeded 500,000. |
| Jun. 2002 |
Started trial service of ‘Yahoo BB 12M.’ |
| Jul. 2002 |
Communication services of three companies of Tokyo Metallic Communications Corp., Nagoya Metallic Communications Corp., and Osaka Metallic Communications Corp. (current SOFTBANK BB Corp.) were integrated into ‘Yahoo! BB.’ |
| Aug. 2002 |
Launched commercial service of ‘Yahoo BB 12M.’ |
| Sep. 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 commercial service of ‘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. |
| Jul. 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 commercial service of ‘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 commercial service of ‘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. |
| Jul. 2004 |
Launched ‘hikari BB Phone,’ IP phone service using fiber optics for corporate users. |
| Sep. 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 (tentative name),’ 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. |
| Jul. 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. |
| JAPAN TELECOM CO., LTD. (current SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp.) and Microsoft Co., Ltd. formed a strategic business alliance 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. (current SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp.) |
| Launched commercial service of ‘Yahoo BB 50M Revo.’ |
| Apr. 2006 |
JAPAN TELECOM CO., LTD. (current SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp.), Yahoo Japan Corporation, and SOFTBANK IDC Corp. announced sequential implementation of ‘Outbound Port25 Blocking (OP25B),’ controlling outgoing nuisance mails. |
| Jun. 2006 |
Established Kitakyushu Network Operation Center (NOC). |
| Jul. 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. |
| May 2007 |
Founded a joint venture with Digital China Group to sell and support software and software service in China. |
| Jul. 2007 |
Awarded Gold Prize of ‘Contact Center Awards 2007’ that commemorates work improvement efforts at contact centers (call centers). |
| Sep. 2007 |
Launched ‘SyncLock,’ authentication system for Web access. |
| Nov. 2007 |
Announced ‘SoftBank SELECTION,’ a new brand to provide accessories of mobile handsets and PC software. |
| Mar. 2008 |
Released ‘CACHATTO for SoftBank,’ a mobile solution. |
| Jun. 2008 |
Launched ‘White Call 24,’ a voice call discount service. |
| Jul. 2008 |
Awarded with Best Technology Award of ‘Contact Center Awards 2008.’ |
| Sep. 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. |
