Tokai Communications
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Tokai Communications Corporation Inc (known as Vic Tokai Corporation until 2011) is a telecommunications company in
History
Vic Tokai was founded on March 18, 1977CATV service provider. The following year, in 1978, it adopted the name of Vic Tokai.[4] The "Vic" in Vic Tokai's name stood for Valuable Information & Communication.[5] The "Tokai" part is the name of its then parent company, Tokai Corporation, a Japanese natural gas utility founded in 1950.
as Yaizu Cable Vision Co, aVic Tokai began selling
In April 1987, parent company Tokai corporation handed its remaining computer-related branches, such as electronic calculation and operational sections, to Vic Tokai, thus making the latter company able to handle data processing operations independently. Vic Tokai expanded in 1988 when it acquired another telecommunication company. The company also launched its first system consulting software the same year.[4]
The 1990s saw a number of new products by Vic Tokai available to the Japanese market. In 1993, Vic Tokai introduced the first version of its long running (and still existing) lineup of network solution products called "TOP-VENUS". Later, Vic Tokai released its own
In April 2000, Vic Tokai merged with another CATV company that provides Internet connection services. As a result, Vic Tokai itself immediately became an Internet service provider, and a year later, in April 2001, it entered the ADSL market. Vic Tokai would soon establish a partnership with Japanese peer-to-peer Internet exchange company JPIX.[4]
As the company continued to grow, Vic Tokai earned its place in the market listing of the JASDAQ as of June 2002.[4]
By March 2005, Vic Tokai had completed the build-out of its own high-capacity optical fiber network infrastructure between Tokyo and Nagoya to improve network support for its Internet service customers and enterprises. Vic Tokai continued its expansion in October 2005 when it merged again, this time with Tokai Broadband Communications, enabling Vic Tokai to enter the mobile broadband industry.[4]
On April 1, 2011, Vic Tokai and (then) parent company Tokai Corporation jointly created Tokai Holdings Corporation, a new shell entity to oversee the operation of both companies (as well as other subsidiaries).[3][6] In October of that year, Vic Tokai was renamed Tokai Communications following its absorption of Tokai Corporation's information and telecommunications business.[7]
In April 2012, the CATV operations of Tokai Communications were spun off into a new company called Tokai Cable Network.[7]
Video games
Vic Tokai was, from 1984 to 1997, a
All of Vic Tokai's internally developed video games were created with Sunseibu Entertainment, a sister company from the Tokai Group.[8] Sunseibu also had some involvement with the Aicom-developed Vic tokai game The Mafat Conspiracy.[8]
The Vic Tokai/Sunseibu duo started in 1984 by developing arcade games for Sega.[8] Vic Tokai/Sunseibu expanded in the home market by developing video games for Nintendo consoles (published by Vic Tokai) and for Sega consoles (published by Sega themselves).[8] In the early 1990s, Vic Tokai, which by then had always self-published video games only for Nintendo consoles, became a Sega licensee for the first time.[9]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Company profile. Archived 2012-12-07 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on November 30, 2017.
- ^ "株式会社ビック東海 [VIC TOKAI]|会社概要". 19 July 2006. Archived from the original on 19 July 2006. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
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- ^ a b c d e f g "株式会社ビック東海 [VIC TOKAI]|沿革". 25 May 2011. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Š"Ž®‰ïŽÐVIC TOKAI". 9 February 2006. Archived from the original on 9 February 2006. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "VIC TOKAI CORP, Form CB/A, Filing Date Dec 20, 2010". secdatabase.com. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ^ a b Tokai Corporation Company profile Archived 2012-10-02 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on November 14, 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Archived copy". www.tokai.or.jp. Archived from the original on 4 January 2002. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Group, Career Communications (24 April 1992). "Hispanic Engineer & IT". Career Communications Group. Archived from the original on 7 December 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2018 – via Google Books.
External links
- Official website (current) (in Japanese)
- Official website (former) (in Japanese)