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Yoshihiro Obata began his career with KDD (now KDDI) in 1986, later working for their R&D teams, where he designed and developed a second-generation global fax mail system based on CCITT X.400. In 1994, he was assigned as the project manager to start the global internet transit business between the United States and Japan.
After being involved in the foundation of Japan Internet Exchange Co., Ltd., the first commercial Internet Exchange company in Japan, he left KDD in 1999 to start up eAccess as a Director and CTO, an ADSL wholesale company. eAccess acquired a 3G license in 2005 and successfully introduced LTE in 2012 (under the EMOBILE brand). In 2013, after the acquisition of eAccess by Softbank, he moved to Equinix Japan and has served as the President & CEO of BizMobile since 2015.
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