President Son, the deregulation by the Trump administration is "should be welcome" --t-mobile re-challenge to the acquisition-cnet Japan

　Mr. Masayoshi Son, President and CEO of SoftBank Group, said at a financial meeting held on February 8, saying that President Trump declared deregulation in various fields.rice field.

　Son visited Trump Tower in New York in December 2016 and talked with Donald Trump before becoming president.At that time, he promised to invest 50 billion dollars in US companies and create 50,000 new employment.He says he meets the Prime Minister and President of each country, such as India, the United Kingdom, and Russia, not just in the United States, and says, "In order to invest, the regulations and laws of the country are involved.He explained that he would not be able to communicate because he couldn't do it.

　Regarding the Trump administration, he will refrain from commenting on politics, and says, "If various deregulation in the United States progresses, there will be many business opportunities and new employment will be born.I'm looking forward to it because I'm looking forward to it. "

　The company acquired the third -largest mobile carrier "SPRINT" in the United States in July 2013.Furthermore, by acquiring and merging the fourth place T-Mobile US, he was trying to compete against Verizon and AT & T of "2", but at that time he did not get approval by the US regulations, so he gave up the plan.There is a past.There is a view that if the regulation is reduced by changing the chairman of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) as the Trump administration, Son will re-challenge the acquisition of T-Mobile.

　Regarding the acquisition of T-Mobile, Mr. Son said, "We were buying three to four years ago, but maybe we might buy, sell, or merge.Maybe it's a completely different company. "Since the management of Sprint has been improving and the situation is different, the acquisition of T-mobile is one of the options, and he wants to consider all possibilities.

Net income doubles in the third quarter

　The consolidated performance in the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2017 (April -December 2016) was 0 year -on -year..6,581,466 million yen to 3 % decrease, operating income is 18.949,666 billion yen to 949,666 billion yen increased by 0 %, twice the same (99).It was 857,431 million yen, up 9 %).Son says that sales have declined, but due to the appreciation of the yen, if the dollar base is increasing.

　The cumulative number of mobile phones increased by 540,000 to 32.23 million, and fixed communication "SoftBank Hikari" is 2 year -on -year..It was 60,000, 3.14 million contracts.In addition, the full -year forecast of free cash flow was revised from 500 billion yen to 550 billion yen.Yahoo, a subsidiary, had an advertising revenue of 72.9 billion yen, an increase of 10 % from the previous year, and the number of stores in "Yahoo! Shopping" increased to 16 times in the past three years, and the handling volume was doubled in three years.It was 140.7 billion yen.

　The US telecommunications subsidiary SPRINT achieved 145.2 billion yen, which is about triple operating income compared to the same period of the previous year.He introduced Nielsen's survey, saying that the reliability of the network is small from other companies, despite its smallest capital investment in US carriers."It's time to be the first place. Softbank's network is the most connected in the world" (Son).

　In September 2016, the company was about 3 Arm Holdings, a major British semiconductor design company..Acquired for 3 trillion yen.ARM's third quarter sales increase 8 % year -on -year to 138.1 billion yen.The ARM -based chips are said to be 12.5 billion.Son is excited about the adoption of ARM chips in the next -generation supercomputer at the highest research institute in Europe.

　In October 2016, the SoftBank Vision Fund was established, a 10 trillion yen investment fund.Regarding his 60 -year -old in 2017, Mr. Son said, "The creation of a vision fund has made it a model to make SoftBank a 300 -year company.In addition, it is important to find and nurture the successor. "