
Japanese Internet and telecoms company Softbank Corp. aims to be the country's largest cellphone operator within the next decade, its president Masayoshi Son said in an interview. "So far, our potential subscribers number in the tens of thousands. Expectations were that we would lose some of our subscribers to the competition, but our new flat-rate service for intra-network cell phone calls will change the user preferences in our favor"...Softbank this week announced an aggressive discount package including free calls between its subscribers as it attempts to reverse the flagging fortunes of the former Vodafone brand which trails well behind its main rivals...more...
Elsewhere, Son is reported to have said that he aims to make mobile charges in Japan "the lowest in the world". See also FG Thread: Vodaphone Flops in Japan.