????軟銀發言人倉野光弘表示，作為中間人的美國海外投資委員會（Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States，CFIUS）現在已經完成了對國家安全風險的評估，疑慮似乎已經打消。他說：“在美國國防部、司法部（包括聯邦調查局）、國土安全部等的協作調查下，我們已經獲得了許可……這些機構都表示滿意，認為一切涉及國家安全的問題都已經得到了徹底的妥善處理。”

????至于外資擁有美國通訊公司引起的各種對于國家安全問題的擔憂，分析家指出，美國四大電信公司中已經有兩家不再屬于美國所有。【威瑞森無線公司（Verizon Wireless，VZ）部分所有權歸于英國公司沃達豐（Vodafone），Metro也由德國公司德國電信（Deutsche Telekom）所有。】因此斯普林特大部分股份由日本軟銀所有并沒有開創任何先例。一位參與軟銀并購的匿名人士表示：“這只是意味著美國的親密盟友——日本、英國和德國——都將與美國市場的電信領域息息相關。”

????軟銀期望在2013年7月初獲得余下管理部門的許可，從而實現在2008年公司衰退之后對美國的最大一筆投資。如果這次并購成功，將會是日本在本土之外進行的最大一次跨國交易。

????軟銀承諾不使用任何中國技術，并與華為在美國的網絡劃清界限，此舉似乎減輕了安全監管部門的疑慮。全球安全組織Globalsecurity.org的亞洲安全分析家約翰?派克認為這樣做也無妨。他表示，中國制造的設備在國外網絡中運行，會造成真正的危險。“如果中國政府不利用本國公司秘密滲入美國的信息基礎設施，那就太傻了。跟其他類似案例一樣，問題在于這種滲透非常隱秘，難以找到確鑿證據。因此完全避免這類冒險就要簡單得多。”（財富中文網）

????譯者：嚴匡正

????Now the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has completed its own review of the risks from a national security standpoint according to Softbank spokesman Mitsuhiro Kurano, and the misgivings seem further Ripperesque. "We have received approval ... including participation by Department of Defense, the Department of Justice (including the FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security. All these agencies are fully satisfied that there are no national security issues that have not been fully and completely addressed," he says.

????As for the foreign ownership of U.S. telecommunications companies raising any sort of national security concern, analysts point out that two of the four largest U.S. telecoms are already owned by non-U.S. entities. (Verizon Wireless (VZ) is partially owned by Vodafone, a U.K. company, and Metro is owned by Deutsche Telekom, a German firm.) Having Sprint majority-controlled by the Japanese Softbank breaks no new ground. "It's just that all of the U.S.'s closest allies, Japan, the U.K., and Germany, will have a stake in this part of the U.S. market," says a source working on the Softbank merger who did not wish to be named.

????Softbank now looks on track to obtain the remaining regulatory approvals for an expected close in early July 2013, making it the largest foreign investment in the U.S. since the recession of 2008 according to the firm. Should the merger go ahead it will be the largest cross-border deal out of Japan in history.

????The promise by Softbank to relieve itself of any China-made technology and clear out the Huawei networks in the U.S. seems to have assuaged the security regulators. Which is just as well, says Asian security analyst at globalsecurity.org, John Pike. He says there is a real danger posed by any equipment made in China operating on foreign networks. "The Chinese government would be stupid to neglect using Chinese companies to gain clandestine access to U.S. information infrastructure," he says. "The concern here, as with other such cases, is that the intrusion would be too subtle to reliably catch, so it is much easier just to avoid the hazard altogether."