BIGLOBE

{{Short description|Internet service provider in Japan}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Expand Japanese|BIGLOBE|topic=culture|date=November 2024}}

{{Infobox company

| name = BIGLOBE Inc.
ビッグローブ株式会社

| logo = BIGLOBE logo.svg

| type = Kabushiki gaisha

| foundation = July 3, 2006

| location = Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

| industry = Information and communication industry

| products =

| key_people = Saburo Takizawa, General Manager

| num_employees = 500

| revenue = 104 billion yen

| owner = NEC (1986-2014)
Japan Industrial Partners (2014-2017)
KDDI (2017-)

| homepage = {{URL|http://www.biglobe.co.jp/}}

}}

{{nihongo|BIGLOBE|ビッグローブ}} (combination of the words "big" and "globe") is a Japanese internet service provider.

KDDI acquired the company in January 2017 for 80 billion yen, which made it the second-largest provider of fiber optics internet connections in Japan.{{cite news|title=ＫＤＤＩがビッグローブ買収発表 顧客層、個人から家族へ 決済・保険など「経済圏」を拡大 |url=http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO10470610Y6A201C1TI5000/|publisher=Nikkei|date=2006-12-09|access-date=2017-01-14}}

Since its foundation, NEC transferred most of the related PC Engine trademarks, including games published by NEC Home Electronics in Japan to NEC BIGLOBE. As of July 2023, the trademark is jointly owned by BIGLOBE and Konami, who inherited the trademark rights from Hudson Soft before being self-absorbed into Konami themselves in March 2012.{{cite web | title=

Trademark Inquiry

| website=j-platpat | url=https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/c1800/TR/JP-1987-094321/003823D9FC555B438B64D8E5FD1F836EE5D373E32C4459D3347CA72FF6844A09/40/en | access-date=8 August 2023}} This did not include the rights of NEC Avenue and NEC Interchannel games for the system, which was previously owned by Lightweight and is currently owned by M2.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtwo.co.jp/blog/2023/07/21/pr230721/|title=「PCエンジン用ゲームソフト」に関する権利譲渡のお知らせ | M2 有限会社エムツー | M2 Co., Ltd.|date=21 July 2023|website=www.mtwo.co.jp|accessdate=8 August 2023}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.lightweight.tokyo/news/?id=20230721|title=「PCエンジン用ゲームソフト」に関する権利譲渡のお知らせ | お知らせ | ニュース|website=ライトウェイト, Lightweight Co., Ltd.|accessdate=8 August 2023}}