Corporate History
1999
- November
- Founding of eAccess Limited
2000
- April
- Commenced ADSL trial service at 2 central offices
- October
- Commenced ADSL commercial service
2001
- February
- Launched 1.5Mbps ADSL service
- April
- Expansion of ADSL service areas to 252 NTT central offices
- July
- Expansion of ADSL service areas to 473 NTT central offices
- August
- Commenced operating the dark-fiber IP backbone network
- August
- Formed a strategic alliance (capital alliance) with Japan Telecom
- November
- Launched 8Mbps ADSL service
2002
- June
- Completed the acquisition of Japan Telecom's consumer JDSL business
- October
- Launched 12Mbps "ADSL Plus" service
2003
- March
- Commenced the VOIP commercial service
- July
- Commenced 1Mbps ADSL service
- July
- Commenced 24Mbps ADSL "ADSL Plus II" service
- October
- Listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers
- November
- Commenced 40Mbps ADSL "ADSL Plus Q"service
- November
- Commenced IP-VPN ADSL service to corporate-users
2004
- April
- Achievement of 1.5 million ADSL subscribers
- July
- Completed the acquisition of AOL Japan's ISP business
- August
- Commenced 47Mbps ADSL service
- November
- Listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section
2005
- January
- Established a wholly owned subsidiary, EMOBILE Ltd.
- May
- Commenced the W-CDMA field trial in the 1.7GHz band
- November
- Allocation of 1.7GHz mobile spectrum to EMOBILE Ltd.
2006
- May
- Secured over 360 billion yen capital for EMOBILE business
2007
- March
- Commenced EMOBILE's mobile data service and Backbone service
- June
- Established Device business
- December
- Commenced MVNO service
2008
- March
- Commenced EMOBILE's nationwide voice services
- November
- Commenced Japan’s first HSUPA service with a maximum uplink speed of 1.4Mbps
- November
- Achieved 1,000,000 subscribers
2009
- March
- Jointly provided mobile broadband services with SoftBank Mobile
- April
- Commenced HSUPA service with a maximum uplink speed of 5.8Mbps in metropolitan areas
- June
- Merged with ACCA Networks
- June
- Granted license of the 3.9 Generation Mobile Telecommunication System “LTE” from the MIC
- July
- Commenced Japan’s first HSPA+ 21Mbps mibile data service
- September
- Opened the first EMOBILE shop at Akasaka
- November
- Achieved 2,000,000 subscribers
- November
- Launched “Pocket WiFi”, an 3G All-in-One Mobile Wi-Fi Router