Corporate History
1999
- November
- Founding of eAccess Ltd.
2000
- October
- Commenced ADSL commercial service
2002
- June
- Completed the acquisition of Japan Telecom's consumer ADSL business
2003
- October
- Listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers
2004
- July
- Completed the acquisition of AOL Japan's ISP business
- November
- Listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section
2005
- January
- Established EMOBILE Ltd. by investment from eAccess Ltd.
- November
- Granted a W-CDMA commercial license in the 1.7GHz band from the MIC
2006
- May
- Completed over 360 billion yen equity and debt financing
2007
- March
- Commenced its HSDPA 3.6Mbps Mobile Data Service “EM Mobile Broadband” in the metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka
- December
- Commenced Japan’s first HSDPA 7.2Mbps mobile data service
2008
- March
- Commenced nationwide voice services
- 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
- November
- Achieved 2,000,000 subscribers
- November
- Launched "Pocket WiFi", an 3G All-in-One Mobile Wi-Fi Router
2010
- July
- eAccess Ltd. entered into a business combination with EMOBILE Ltd. and makes EMOBILE Ltd. its wholly owned subsidiary.
- December
- Commenced DC-HSDPA service with a maximum downlink speed of 42Mbps
2011
- January
- Achieved 3,000,000 subscribers
- March
- eAccess Ltd. merged with EMOBILE Ltd.
