eAccess buys AOL Japan

Hark, is that the sound of an ADSL provider looking to expand? The Nikkei is reporting that DSL wholesaler eAccess is to buy out the "Internet connection division" that makes up the large part of the ailing (or rather, stalled) Japan operations of AOL. Next? They're to move into the big bad world of retail.

[Via the Nikkei Shimbun (Japanese)]