Internet investor Softbank Corp. has offered to acquire three Tu-Ka mobile service firms from KDDI Corp. for more than 200 billion yen, a leading Japanese economic daily reported Saturday.
Or maybe they haven't
Bloomberg: Softbank Denies Report It Offered to Purchase Three KDDI Units
Softbank Corp., Japan's second-largest high-speed Internet access provider, denied a newspaper report that said it offered to buy three wireless units of KDDI Corp. "There are no such facts," said Takeaki Nukii, a Softbank spokesman in Tokyo, when asked about the Nihon Keizai article. KDDI spokesman Haruhiko Maede declined to comment.