---
title: "SoftBank Mobile: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Japanese telecommunication carrier"
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-softbank-mobile
type: Organization
wikidata: Q2214105
website: https://www.softbank.jp/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# SoftBank Mobile

> Japanese telecommunication carrier

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-softbank-mobile

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: Japan
- Founded: 1984-10-01
- Headquarters: Tokyo
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://www.softbank.jp/
- Employees: 6,700
- Also known as: Vodafone K.K.
- Industries: telecommunications industry, mobile phone industry

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/SoftBank
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0nFKe_NyHM5UUQ5J40ktHA
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoftBank
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/softbank_official

## Key people

- Nikesh Arora (Indian American business executive and CEO of Palo Alto Networks)

## Ownership

Parent: [SoftBank Group](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-softbank-group.md)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on SoftBank Mobile, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-softbank-mobile#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2214105, read 2026-11-11

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