A lot of people are ignoring the fact that SoftBank Group is also one of the largest players in the telco market globally (that's how they started) [0] and that played a role in their Arm strategy and Eutelsat OneWeb strategy.<p>It's useful to look at the Ampere acquisition from the same lens, as Ampere is heavily used for telco usecases [1]<p>SoftBank Group has heavily invested in O-RAN to act as the base technology for what will become 6G, and they have been making a number of partnerships, investments, and acquisitions specifically around this [2][3].<p>SoftBank has been working on a 6G/Beyond 5G strategy for several years now [4] - primarily targeting embedded usecases such as autonomous vehicles [5][6]<p>[0] - <a href="https://www.softbank.jp/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www.softbank.jp/en/</a><p>[1] - <a href="https://amperecomputing.com/press/ampere-accelerates-expansion-into-telecom" rel="nofollow">https://amperecomputing.com/press/ampere-accelerates-expansi...</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/news/press/sbkk/2024/20240228_01/" rel="nofollow">https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/news/press/sbkk/2024/2024022...</a><p>[3] - <a href="https://www.o-ran.org/membership" rel="nofollow">https://www.o-ran.org/membership</a><p>[4] - <a href="https://www.suasnews.com/2021/08/softbank-corp-unveils-6g-concept/" rel="nofollow">https://www.suasnews.com/2021/08/softbank-corp-unveils-6g-co...</a><p>[5] - <a href="https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/technology/research/news/051/" rel="nofollow">https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/technology/research/news/051...</a><p>[6] - <a href="https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/technology/research/news/069/" rel="nofollow">https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/technology/research/news/069...</a>