But not the technology, per se; it is the services of the technology that matter.
Until now, SoftBank has invested mostly in the services side of the technology business — internet companies like Yahoo Japan and Alibaba, and mobile phone carriers like Sprint and Vodafone, whose Japanese arm Mr. Son bought in 2006 and turned into one of Japan's dominant carriers.
The self-service options of the technology-based service system that the banking industry had set up could reduce the cost of personnel and improve the efficiency of operation [ 62, 63].
Bryant said, "We couldn't build other services on top of the technology, so we were stuck in the ringtone business".
This raises the need for setting guarantees to the quality of the offered service (QoS), despite the technology of the access network (AN) or the mobility of the terminal.
"Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry".
For the consumer of all of these services, the technology offers the potential, according to the circumstances, for individual consumers to control access to personal records and to know who has accessed them".
And every other major telecommunications provider has plans to introduce Internet-based service to take advantage of the technology's lower costs and the lack of regulation.
Compressed air service and lighting offer good possibilities of energy savings with better management of these services and the improvement of the technology that regards both compressors and lighting systems.
As a property manager, he said, he tries to differentiate among the many companies offering communications services using three criteria: the financial capability to deliver promised services, the range of services offered and the technology being used.
