Changes to Benefit Program for Shareholders
SOFTBANK CORP. announced that its Board of Directors has approved changes to the benefit program for shareholders as described below at the meeting of the Board of Directors held on November 1, 2007.
1. Eligible for preferential treatment
Shareholders and beneficial shareholders, with more than 100 shares (hereinafter ‘shareholders’) as of March 31 and September 30 every year.
2.Description
Preferential treatment of SOFTBANK MOBILE service to shareholders
(1) Provide gift certificates *1 of 10,000 yen to new subscribers of SOFTBANK MOBILE *2 .
- *1 Unable to combine with other campaigns during the same period.
- *2 Mandatory to subscribe to ‘New Super Bonus’, one line only. Corporate customers and prepaid customers are not eligible.
(2) Three months free of monthly fee *3*4 of Basic Option Package *5 to SOFTBANK MOBILE customers who subscribed, or plan to subscribe to Basic Option Package during the period of preferential treatment.
- *3 Good for one treatment per line only.
- *4 Provide preferential treatment to users in the middle of free months of Basic Option Package after the end of the free months.
- *5 Basic Option Package is a service package which includes ‘Secure Remote Lock’, ‘Spam mail filter & Address book back-up’, ‘Lost Mobile Phone Search’, ‘Voice Mail Plus’, ‘Call Waiting’, and ‘Multi-party Calling’ (For 3G handsets. Some service may not be available due to the subscription content or handset model).
- * Unavailable to combine above (1) and (2) to the same line.
Preferential treatment of Yahoo! BB service to shareholders
(1) Cashback of 10,000 yen *1 to new subscribers to Yahoo! BB ADSL Standard type or Yahoo! BB ADSL No-telephone line subscription right type. At the same time, new subscribers to BBTV (Basic Channel Pack) will receive a 2,000 yen *2 additional cashback.
- *1 Good for one treatment per line only.
- *2 Discount below will be applied to those existing customers to Yahoo! BB ADSL Standard type or Yahoo! BB ADSL No-telephone line subscription right type who newly subscribe to BBTV.
(2) Discount the equivalent amount of ADSL service (or ISP service) *1*2 to existing customers to any of the line services below and any of the optional services.
Line Service
(Services for preferential treatment)Optional Service *3 Description Amount of money (Yen per month) Yahoo! BB ADSL (Standard type/ No-telephone line subscription right type/Otoku Line type *4 ) 50M Revo - Wireless LAN Pack
- Double Wireless Pack
- BBTV Basic Channel Pack
Discount the equivalent amount of ADSL service fee 1,564 50M 1,564 26M 1,459 12M 1,249 8M 1,039 Yahoo! BB hikari TV Package home Discount the equivalent amount of ISP service fee 1,354 apartment 1,354 - *1 Good for one treatment per line only.
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Discount period corresponds to the number of shares held.
100 shares to less than 1,000 shares discount for one month semiannually 1,000 shares and over discount for three months semiannually - *3 Available optional services vary depending on the subscribed line services.
- *4 ‘Yahoo! BB ADSL Otoku Line type’ does not provide ‘Yahoo! BB 50M Revo.’
- * Above (1) and (2) cannot be combined.
3. Timing of implementation
Above changes will be applied to shareholders as of September 30, 2007, the preferential treatment coupon will be sent to the shareholders by mail during the first half of December 2007.
Reference
Changes
New
| Eligible | Preferential treatment of Yahoo! BB service to shareholders | Preferential treatment of SOFTBANK MOBILE service to shareholders |
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Old
| Eligible | Preferential treatment of Yahoo! BB service to shareholders | Preferential treatment of SOFTBANK MOBILE service to shareholders | |
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| New subscriber | - | Provide cashback of JPY 10,000 |
With a referral of a new subscriber, provide cashback of JPY 5,000
(JPY5,000 to the referred as well) |
| Existing subscriber | Discount the equivalent amount of ADSL (or ISP) service fee | - | |
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