Japan's biggest cable TV operator to merge with No. 2

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Takahashi (L), senior vice president of KDDI Corp., and Yoshio Osawa, director, senior managing executive officer of Sumitomo Corp., shake hands in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. Sumitomo and KDDI that day said they will merge their cable TV services by integrating Japan's biggest cable television operator Jupiter Telecommunications Co. and second-largest cable TV operator Japan Cablenet Ltd. around fall 2013.