SoftBank Group CFO Yoshimitsu Goto said the company is not currently discussing scaling down its Ohio project.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approved ten firms to pilot number-protection services and allocated 700-prefix dedicated numbering resources. The service, commissioned by platforms such as food-delivery and ride-hailing apps, assigns temporary 15-digit numbers beginning with 700 to users in place of their real mobile numbers to reduce number-leakage risk. When users opt in at order placement, contact between users and delivery riders or ride-hailing drivers is routed via the 15-digit 700 numbers; neither party’s real mobile number is displayed.

Alibaba (BABA.N) turned higher in US premarket trading, up nearly 1%.