I tried asking by telephone whether WILLCOM could possibly be acquired by SOFTBANK

On September 24, 2009, in order to establish a profit base for business revitalization and business continuity and to fundamentally improve the financial structure, we requested the Business Revitalization Workers AssociationThe formal application for the procedure of "Specified Certified Dispute Resolution Procedure (Business Revitalization ADR) prescribed by the Act on Special Measures for Industrial Revitalization Regeneration (Business Revitalization ADR)" was accepted, and WILLCOMIt was revealed by the report of the Yomiuri Newspaper that Softbank made a name as a supporting company.

Is there any possibility that Willcom will be acquired by SOFTBANK? I actually interviewed WILLCOM's public relations department by telephone at the editorial department.

Details are as below.
Softbank launched WILLCOM support: economic news: money · economy: YOMIURI ONLINE (Yomiuri Shimbun)

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun news report, SOFTBANK has announced his name on the 26th as a support company for WILLCOM using business revival ADR.

This means that SOFTBANK will incorporate 4 million subscribers of WILLCOM's subscribers and the next-generation PHS (WILLCOM CORE XGP), a high-speed communication technology that achieves a maximum of 20 Mbps for both uplink and downlink, to pursue NTT docomo and KDDI What I expected.

At present, the names of several funds have been raised as a support company of WILLCOM, and Carlyle, the largest shareholder of the American type fund, is expected to decide supporting companies within the year, but SOFTBANK, which has a track record in telecommunications business, is strong There is also a view that there is.

In addition, Softbank, which aims to acquire WILLCOM, seems to be seeking financial institutions to abandon part of Willcom 's 93.3 billion yen debt as a condition for support.

For this report, I contacted the Public Relations department of WILLCOM by telephone,There is no such fact as being reported, and we are currently working hard on the establishment of the business revitalization ADR procedure"It was a reply saying.