Rakuten Pay Tops the Japanese Cashless War
Readers interested in Japan's payments/cashless future should refer Michael Causton's excellent work in Who Will Win the Cashless Wars in...
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Japan Telcos - Regulator to Lower Cap for Early Mobile Contract Cancellation: Positive for Rakuten
The Nikkei reported this weekend that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC, the regulator) is planning to lower the cap...
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Japan 5G: Government Will Promote Use of Public Infrastructure to Speed Deployment
As part of its next IT strategy announcement the Japan Cabinet office is proposing the use of 200K traffic lights to host 5G antenna. In the...
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Japanese Telcos Show Resilient Revenue And Focus on Shareholder Returns
Lots has been written on this site about the Japanese telecom market recently. The view at New Street Research has been and remains positive on the...
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Rakuten: Update on the Mobile Business Generally Positive
Rakuten Inc (4755 JP) hosted a call with CTO Tareq Amin to update analysts and investors on recent progress. The company says cell site acquisition...
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