Japanese company SoftBank invented it.

日本软银公司发明了它。

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Apple and Softbank declined to comment.

苹果公司和软银公司拒绝对此发表评论。

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Softbank, in effect, has created a leasing business.

实际上，软银所创造的是一项租用业务。

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Among its other arguments, Softbank says the hypothetical Dish-Sprint entity would be dangerously overleveraged.

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The transaction has been approved by the Boards of Directors of both SoftBank and Sprint.

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That approach led to early, successful investments in Qualcomm, JDS Uniphase, NTTDoCoMo and Softbank.

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