SoftBank Group

In the fiscal year ended March 2024 SoftBank Corp. registered 6,084.0 billion yen of revenue, 876.1 billion yen of operating income and 489.1 billion yen of net income. SoftBank Corp. has 40 million mobile subscribers in Japan, and through its group companies, 66 million smartphone payment (PayPay) users, 85 million online media (Yahoo! JAPAN) users and 97 million communication app (LINE) users (as of November, 2024).

Building on its strong business foundation, SoftBank Corp. is expanding into non-telecom fields in line with its “Beyond Carrier” growth strategy while further growing its telecom business by harnessing the power of 5G/6G, IoT, Digital Twin and Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) solutions, including High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)-based stratospheric telecommunications. While constructing AI data centers and developing homegrown LLMs specialized for the Japanese language with 1 trillion parameters, SoftBank Corp. is applying AI to enhance radio access network performance (AI-RAN) with the aim of becoming a provider of next-generation social infrastructure. In recognition of its ESG initiatives, SoftBank Corp. was selected for inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for 2022 and 2023, achieving the highest score in Japan and registering as the only company in the country to be selected for the Telecommunication Services industry group in 2023.