Japanese Internet investor Softbank Corp President Masayoshi Son prompts reporters' questions at a n.., 2001-12-18...

Japanese Internet investor Softbank Corp President Masayoshi Son prompts reporters' questions at a news conference announcing the launch in spring 2002 of a cut-rate Internet broadband telephone service, BB Phone, by Softbank and subsidiary Yahoo Japan Corp, in Tokyo December 18, 2001. [It's an unprecedented, new approach to the telephone business, probably the first in the world to offer complete telephone services over a broadband network, he said. Unlike other Voice over Internet protocol services, BB Phone works through a special telephone terminal adapter that allows users to connect a normal telephone and dial regular phone numbers, he said.]