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To: TobagoJack who wrote (1904)	9/24/1999 10:41:00 PM
From: Jonas1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6020

Jay: How do you see IIJI fitting in with Softbank's plans? Is IIJI more an infrastructure play? If so, is it competing with Softbank's wireless initiative? Is it a good buy/company in your opinion? Jonas

To: TobagoJack who wrote (1904)	9/24/1999 11:12:00 PM
From: Taikun	Respond to of 6020

Hikari Tsushin has a US$300m fund in California to invest in telecoms. They also want to leverage those little shops they have all over Japan for wireless/pda/other appliance sales. Japanese need brick and mortar at the final stage of an internet transaction, it seems, hence the 7-11/Softbank book deal as well as the focus on BAMs like Daiei, Ito-Yokado. As well, Goodwill runs the back end processing for 9435 and processes all the phone numbers with DDI (the phone service provider) in Japan. They'll do a brisk business with the explosion of i-mode in Japan. i-mode already has 1m units, 50m cell phones in Japan, so Goodwill should do well. A little pricey, though: Goodwill=TSE#4735 65.5m yen, looks like it opened around July/99 at just over 20m. Sagawa Kyubin delivers the Hikari Tsushin products. Don't know their ticker but sounds like a possible play. Yamato would be competitor but Sagawa is the exclusive for HT. Well done on the Yahoo!