[zokier]

Probably means

> On October 1, 2006, Vodafone Japan changed its corporate name, mobile phone brand name, and its mobile phone domain name to SoftBank Mobile, SoftBank, and [mb.softbank.jp], respectively

and

> SoftBank Mobile was the only official carrier of the iPhone in Japan until the release of iPhone 4S in 2011 when it became available on au by KDDI as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Group

Oh, and SoftBank also happens to own Sprint, although that probably is unrelated here.

[oneplane]

Ah, so SoftBank Group is not just the ARM guys. Makes a different kind of sense now.