Ipobile Mobile Self-Bankruptcy, Returning the Acquired Frequency Band

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun news report, a communication venture company planned to enter the mobile phone business "IP Mobile」Abandoned the plan to enter the mobile phone business, it seems that the bank broke down after returning the allocated frequency band.

Details are as follows.
Ipi Mobile Self-Bankruptcy, Returning Assigned Mobile Frequency: Economic News: Economy · Money: YOMIURI ONLINE (Yomiuri Shimbun)

According to this article, IP Mobile has abandoned its plans to enter the mobile phone business, returned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in November 2005 in order to enter, and returned to the Tokyo District Court He seems to have made a motion for bankruptcy. The total debt is about 900 million yen.

In addition, unless we start the business by November 9th this year we lost the entry to mobile phone business and had to return the frequency band to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but support of funds necessary to start business We asked Mori Trust, a telecommunications company in the United States, an investment company in Hong Kong, but both were abandoned and it seems that management was confused, such as dismissing the 4 directors such as the president from the 2nd of this month.

By the way, when IP Mobile was allocated the frequency of 1.7 GHz band from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, it was also assigned to SoftBank Group BB Mobile and eMobile, but in response to SoftBank's acquisition of vodafone,After that, I returned the frequency to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and CommunicationsAnd it means that only EMOBILE could be commercialized using the finally assigned frequency band.

The official website of IP Mobile is below. It is becoming hard to connect now.

IP Mobile Ltd.