The potential deal hit shares of NTT and rival mobile carriers, but investors started to buy shares of other companies in the communication...

Leading the gains, SoftBank Group jumped 8.96% to mark its biggest daily gain since March 25, after the company said it agreed to sell chip...

The Nikkei index ended up 0.73% at 22,884.22, with the healthcare and technology sectors leading the advance.

Nikkei share average ended the day down 0.59 per cent at 21,067.23 after falling to as low as 20,751.45, the lowest since mid-February.

The communications sector tanked 8.3 percent and was the worst performer on the board.

Kyocera’s Inamori’s less-extreme capitalism is a product of Japanese society, which he says is less willing to accept gaps between haves an...

The JVs are likely to be formed in green mobile base stations manufacturing, cyber and network security, disaster management, etc.

Comcast has been building its WiFi network and it aims to have 8 million hot spots by the end of the year, covering 19 of the 30 largest US...

Indian telecom bellwether Bharti AirtelBSE 1.27 %, along with consortium partners, has submitted its final technical bid for a telecom lice...

Cellphone maker Motorola Inc is in talks with Nokia Siemens Networks to sell its wireless- networking business for $1.2 billion.

Toyota and three other Japanese automakers together with a power company have set up a group to promote electric vehicles by standardizing ...

LG Electronics Inc. claimed a step forward in the commercialization of the next generation of Internet capable handsets, demonstrating a mo...

Nokia plans to launch its own mobile phone service in Japan next year to break into a market dominated by three domestic companies.

Softbank Corp, Japan's third-largest mobile phone carrier, won more users than its bigger rivals for the 14th straight month in June.

Sony Corp has decided to stop making mobile phones for top Japanese cellphone operator NTT DoCoMo Inc, and focus its resources on more prom...

Besides Bharti, the consortium includes Google, Japan's telecom company KDDI Corp, Malaysia's Global Transit Ltd, Singapore's Pancet and Si...

Japanese telecom operator KDDI Corp has developed a server that keeps a record of the smallest events in a person’s “electronic life” and l...