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* Softbank acquisition values eAccess at $1.84 bln * Softbank offers more than three times eAccess share price * Softbank says eAccess deal will take it past KDDI bysubscribers (Adds confirmation of ...

The CreditWatch placement reflects our assessment that the merger is likely to positively impact eAccess' business prospects and financial risk profile. Competition in the Japanese mobile market has ...

Softbank Corp. plans to acquire smaller domestic rival eAccess Ltd. through a stock-swap deal valued at ¥180 billion, or $2.3 billion, in the Tokyo-based company's latest move in Japan's smartphone ...

Softbank has sold off a large portion of a local carrier it acquired just weeks ago, as it looked to assuage fears over its expanded control of Japan’s wireless spectrum. The company, which runs one ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. EAccess, the Japanese telecoms group, has complained to financial regulators that a block trade involving ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Yahoo Japan Corp has dropped its plan to buy mobile network operator eAccess Ltd from SoftBank Corp in a 324 billion yen ($3.2 billion) deal that was part of a reorganisation of ...

Japanese operator Softbank is selling a portion of its recently acquired subsidiary eAccess to 11 third party firms including infrastructure vendors Ericsson, NSN, Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung. Softbank ...

Japan’s third largest carrier, Softbank, is to acquire fourth-placed carrier eAccess in a share swap deal valued at just under ¥200 billion ($2.6 billion), Reuters is reporting (original story at the ...