ソフトバンク孫さんが米国トーク番組に

ソフトバンク孫社長が米国で熱弁、時代遅れの米ネットインフラに喝。T-Mobile買収の可能性
By Hiromu Tsuda posted 2014年03月13日 00時58分

ソフトバンクの孫正義社長が、3月11日に米国ワシントンD.C.で講演を行いました。昨年、米3位の携帯電話事業者 Sprint の買収を完了し、日本有数のインターネットカンパニーから、世界のインターネットカンパニーへと歩を進めたソフトバンク。講演で孫社長は「ネットはここ米国で発明されたにもかかわらず遅れてきている」と熱弁をふるい、高速なモバイル通信の必要性を説きました。

訪米した際に著名なトーク番組チャーリーローズにも登場したようですね。フルプログラムはこちら。



雑誌ビジネスウィークでもチャーリーローズのコーナーがありますが、最新号で孫さんが登場しています。iPhoneを独占契約した時のくだりです。

Charlie Rose Talks to SoftBank's Masayoshi Son
By Charlie Rose March 13, 2014

You persuaded Steve Jobs to let you be the first carrier to offer the iPhone in Japan. Did you call him up? Go see him?

That was two years before he introduced the iPhone. I called him up and went to see him. And I brought my little drawing of an iPod with mobile capability. Steve says, “Masa, don’t give me your s---ty drawing. I have my own.” He said, “You’re crazy. We haven’t talked to anybody, but you came to see me first. I’ll give it to you.” So I said, “Write it down and sign it for me.” He said, “No, Masa, I’m not going to sign for you, because you don’t even own a mobile carrier yet.” I spent $20 billion doing that.

日本での手法と同じようなやり方で米国でもやっていこうとしているのでしょうか。

And you believe that’s because Verizon (VZ) and AT&T (T) dominate the market?

Yeah. They have more than a 75 percent share of the market and more than 80 percent of the corporate market. They make a ton of money, so they’re very comfortable with where they are. And I don’t blame them. If I were in their shoes, I would be happy. But because they’re in such a happy position, without real competition from a strong challenger, they can relax. Of total industry profit, they [take in] 90 percent. So here comes two little ones who are not able to fight, without enough scale, and I think the situation needs to change.