Rakuten's Balance Sheet and Incremental Costs Limit Funding Flexibility as It Plans Mobile Entry
Rakuten (4755 JP) announced in mid December that it would look to enter the Japan mobile industry and would apply for spectrum in the current FY17...
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NTT Docomo ¥97bn - Will They Spend It? The Data
After I published NTT Docomo Tender Offer Complete; ¥97bn Left To Spend, an astute reader asked about the history of NTT Docomo buybacks and...
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NTT Docomo Tender Offer Complete; ¥97bn Left To Spend
Today after the close, NTT Docomo Inc (9437 JP)announced (Japanese only) that it had completed its Tender Offer Buyback announced December 11th as...
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Rakuten's Entry to Telco Market Unlikely to Be Disruptive. Telco Visits Suggest Positive Outlook.
Immediately before the recent Rakuten (4755 JP) announcement that they were looking to enter the telecom market directly, Kirk Boodry met all the...
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Japan Telcos: Cabinet Office to Look at Spectrum Allocation
Recent news reports suggesting that Japan could move to an auction system for spectrum allocation appear overdone. They were driven by a Cabinet...
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