Softbank to buy Vodafone Japan for 16B$

Softbank is planning to buy Vodafone Japan for 2 Trillion Yen (about 16 B$). This announce a major shake up in the mobile phone services market in Japan. Currently the average price for one minute mobile phone conversation is about 0.5$ per minute one of the highest price in the world. one can expect Softbank to come up with serious discounts as it did in the broadband access market.
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