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Softbank's President Masayoshi Son, left, bows to apologize during a press conference in Tokyo Monday, Oct. 30, 2006. Softbank stopped accepting new customers on Saturday and Sunday when its computer system couldn't handle the barrage of new applications following the arrival of number portability in Japan last week, a system that lets people keep the same numbers when they switch carriers. Son apologized to customers and said the company had taken measures to increase its system capacity. (AP Photo/Asahi Shimbun) ** JAPAN OUT NO SALES MANDATORY CREDIT ONLINE OUT **

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headline AP HDD 2-c

created date 2006-10-31

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source Associated Press

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